IDEAS FOR USING FLASHCARDS

In this video Carol Read gave us some interesting tips to introduce and use flashcards with children in class.
There are a lot of activities that we can do with children using flashcards.
First of all, we have to pay atention on how are we going to introduce it to children. We can do it like a flash, and show it very fast, so this is a very interesnting way to get their atention. We can show it very slowly, for doing this we have to cover the flashcard and then reveal it very slowly, so they are going to recognise it as soon as they can.

But this is just the way you introduce flashcards, but there are a lot of activities that you can do in class using flashcards. Yo can play games, like:

 "What´s missing"  to play this game you have to show all the flashcards, and then you have to ask their to close their eyes, and you have to remove one flashcard, and they have to ghess wich flaschard is misshing.

"Magic eyes" in this game you are helping to train children memory, becouse yo have to repeat all the flashcard in a rythmic way, and you are going to remove one by one, and all of us have to repeat the secuence.

But of course you can do a lot of activities with flashcard depending on what do you want to work. If you want to practive vocabulary, you can put all the flashcards in the blackboard, and then you can remove it and ask their to write or sayng the most things they can remember.

You can play action games, so you can divide into 3 to 5 groups of children, and asigne one flashcard to each group, then you can give intructions and ask for doing something like "Touch your nose tigers"

To sum up, and as you can see, there are plety of poibilities to work with children using flashcards.
We need  to be sure about what are we going to work, and how are we going to do it, so the key is to plann our lesson, and think about what children are interested in, and use it.