Language+Arts

=**Ideas for Using Brain-based Strategies in English Language Arts Classes**=

From Jayne: I've been trying to be more active in the classroom with mundane tasks such as defining literary terms. For example, when we were reviewing point of view, I created a yarn square on the floor and put a single piece of blue painter tape with a smiley face on it near one inside corner. A volunteer served as the narrator.
 * For 1st person, the narrator stood inside the yarn square and made the hand gesture for "i" in American Sign Language.
 * For 3rd person omniscient, the narrator stood outside of the yarn square and surveyed everything going on inside of the square.
 * For 3rd person limited, the narrator stood outside the square and made a microscope out of his/her hands, zooming in on the single smiley face.

The activity broke up the monotony making the learning active and very memorable! It was really fun!