This document outlines the schedule and content for a 2-week elementary school teacher training program focusing on writing skills and methodology. The program, taking place from July 27 - August 7, 2014, will cover topics such as letter writing, word shapes, grammar, sentence building, and making questions from simple sentences. Materials will be taught by Mr. Douglas Baumwoll and include online exercises, games, flashcards, and worksheets to help teachers develop students' writing abilities.

1. Elementary School Teacher
2-Week Program
JETI
July 27 – August 7, 2014

2. Writing Skills and Methodology
• Taught by Mr. Douglas Baumwoll
• All materials in this PowerPoint are
copyrighted
• ©Douglas Baumwoll July 2015
• Materials may be used for educational purposes
with credit given to the author, Mr. Baumwoll

3. Letter-level Writing

4. Alphabet Stuff
Phonics Song
Alphabet Chant
Alphabet Song
Slower (lower case)
Sesame Street - Alphabet Song
Online Exercise (Alphabet)
Alphabet Maze
Bogglesworld (Connect-the-Letter Drawings)
Online Exercise (Letters Scramble)

5. More Letter-Level Stuff
• “A” - Phonics Song
• Flashcards & Phonics (bottom of page)
• Real English – Alphabet
• Online Alphabet Exercises

6. Word Shapes

7. Alphabet Order Games
Alphabet Fun 1
Which letter is in the wrong place? Put a circle around it and write the
correct letter:
1. o p q l s t
2. m n o p q y
3. a b o d e f
4. k l n m o p
5. u v w h y z
6. d e f p h i
7. n o y q r s
8. q r s t o v
9. c d a f g h
10. h i g k l m
Alphabet Fun 2
Write the next five letters in each line:
1. o p q r __ ____ ____ ____ ____
2. m n o p __ ____ ____ ____ ____
3. A B C D __ ____ ____ ____ ____
4. k l m n __ ____ ____ ____ ____
5. R S T U __ ____ ____ ____ ____
Fill in the blanks:
6. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ h
7. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ t
8. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ y
Write the opposite word:
9. cat - ____ ____ ____
10. black - ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
11. large - ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
12. DAY - ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
13. SAD - ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
14. playing - ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

8. word-level Writing

9. Word-Level: Online Materials Generators
• Word Search Generator
• Crossword Generator
• Handwriting Generator
• Flashcards Generator

10. ESL Games Plus - Concentration

11. Top 200 Words in English (from Cambridge Unversity Press

12. Use with most used English Words
(page 27 of PDF file)
Top 100 Verbs
Top Academic Words
More Academic Words

13. Words
• Antonym word match online
• Animals

14. Key Word Identification

15. Don’t Forget the Numbers!
• Numbers Exercises

16. Basic Grammar: parts of speech

19. Sentence Build by Color
buys

21. Grammar
• Parts of speech – online games
• Octopus Game
• Space Invaders

22. Sentence Building (by shape and color)
What part of speech is:
• yellow triangle?
• blue circle?
• purple diamond?
• green oval?
• and the last shape must be ______ .

23. Sentence Building – shape only

24. Sentence-level Writing

25. More Sentence Building Sites
• Sentence Build with Sound – games
• worksheetgenius.com - Sentence
building with teacher input!
–Especially good for sentence scramble

26. From: Worksheetgenius.com
(→English/literacy worksheets
→ simple sentence writing)

27. From: Worksheetgenius.com
(→English/literacy worksheets
→ scrambled sentence)

28. Making questions from simple sentences
• How many questions can you make from this
sentence?
– John ate the pizza at lunchtime.
• There are three easy questions to make:
– Who…
– When did…
– What did…