19 Exercise Types You Can Adapt to Reach Even the Most

Difficult Students

Teaching Groups of Diverse Learners:

Meet the diverse group of learners of your “new” class

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Quite a distinctive group of learners,

aren’t they?

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You don’t think they all

learn in the same way, do you?

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So, what are you going to do?

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Meet your learners’ needs Using a Variety of Exercise Types including:

COGNITIVE PAIRS

FILL in the BLANKS or Gap Fill

It’s August, so the weather is _____ and _______ today

WORD or LETTER UNSCRAMBLE

The boy has a ebul shirt and erd hair. Freckles he too on face his has.

RE-ORDERING a SEQUENCEHow to Make Pizza: Put the steps in the

correct order

Slice the pizza Toss the pizza dough Put on tomato sauce Enjoy your pizza Knead the dough Add cheese Bake in a pizza oven

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TRUE or FALSE?

This is a girl.

She has blonde hair. His shirt is blue.

The glasses are green.

GIVE a DESCRIPTION

Who is he? Where is he from? What did he do? Why did he do it? Where is he? What will happen? Will he do it again?

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EXPOSITORY WRITING:

COMPLETE the PHRASE or SENTENCE

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PROBLEM-SOLVING

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ERRER CORREKTION

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

Look at the picture:

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

Now answer the following questions:

How many animals are there?

What animals are there?

Are there clouds in the sky?

Are people in the picture?

What are they doing?

This is a school, isn’t it?

WRITE the QUESTION

“What is today?” “Today is Monday.”

“Today is Monday.” What is the question? _________________? How you know: …

because yesterday was Sunday and tomorrow will be Tuesday. So today must be Monday.

Now, explain how to determine the question is more difficult because intuitive, right-brain functions are involved.

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COMPLETE a CHART or GRAPH

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MAKE a COMPARISON

Compare/contrast two or more similar/dissimilar things, people, jobs or places, etc.

SELECT an ITEM FROM a GROUP Which one is different or doesn’t belong? Why?

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RE-WRITE or

RE-STATE

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DRAMATIZATION

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So here’s a quick recap …

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Meet learner needs using a variety of exercise types:

COGNITIVE PAIRSFILL in the BLANKSWORD or LETTER

UNSCRAMBLERE-ORDERING a

SEQUENCETRUE or FALSEGIVE a DESCRIPTIONEXPOSITORY

WRITINGCOMPLETE the

PHRASE or SENTENCE

PROBLEM-SOLVING

ERROR CORRECTIONCOMPREHENSION

QUESTIONSWRITE the QUESTIONCOMPLETE a CHART

or GRAPHMAKE a COMPARISON

SELECT an ITEM

FROM a GROUPRE-WRITE or RE-

STATEGIVE an OPINIONDRAMATIZATION

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Activities for Teaching Groups

of Diverse Learners

Prof. Larry M. Lynch proflmlynch@gmail.com

Thank Y You