Flip-A-Chip


 * Type Your Name:** Gretchen Mayhood # 19


 * Strategy name:** Flip - A - Chip Vocabulary


 * Student appropriate grade levels:** seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth


 * Tags:** Vocabulary, Language Arts, Reading, ESL Students, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth


 * Content areas:** Language Arts, Reading


 * Type of Strategy:** Vocabulary, Reading


 * Types of Students:** General, ESL, Low Achievers


 * Strategy Description:** Flip-A-Chip is a vocabulary strategy designed to make learning new vocabulary fun for students. The strategy also improves the students reading comprehension abilities. The Flip-A-Chip strategy approach promotes students vocabulary development and helps the teacher teach syllables, comprehension of meaningful affixes, and the use of content in composition. The teacher finds two hard circles that can be utilized for flipping. Then he or she prints two prefixes on the front of the two chips. One prefix on each chip. On the back of the chips, the teacher prints two different syllables. The teacher flips the coins until the students come up with the right combinations of prefixes and syllables in order to make two correct words. The teacher could also print two syllables on the front and two suffixes on the back. (For example, rude, great, er, est) The teacher can mix and match how to present the vocabulary any way they like. There is a lot of freedom assocaited with this part of the strategy.

After introducing the flip-a-chip strategy with students, the teacher will tell the students they are going to fit the words they just flipped into the following paragraph. The four words to be used are: produce, reduce, revoke, provoke. The teacher will tell the students they have to figure out from the context of the paragraph where the four words go. The following paragraph will be used: Ms. Jones was angry. She said,"My students (blank) me when they are tardy. They (blank) one excuse after another. I want to (blank) the number of tardies, so I'll (Blank) the privileges of any pupil who is late." It takes the students a few minutes, but they are able to fit the four words into the paragraph correctly, just by using the context provided.
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