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SPINTELLIGENCE
OVERVIEW: ACTIVITY OBJECTIVE:
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Spin elligence s not only fun to do, but also Learners will able to participate actively, respond to random
extremely helpful in the classroom. This activity uses questions and expand understanding about concepts.
a spinner that spins and picks a random
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word/phrase/question based on the teacher’s input MATERIALS & REPARATION
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in responding and understa ding random questions þ Spinner with eight sections labelled 1Act it Out, 2Part of
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Spintelligence s a flexible and versatile resource a Sentence, Define It, and ay a Synonym. he teache can
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which promotes discussion, engagement and makes utilize the ollowing in preparing a spinner:
fun learning. a. Printable Spinn er - https://www.senteacher.org/printa
Engaging learners with this fun activity can bles/Literacy/53/LiteracyWordSpinners.html
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improve language skills like s peaking, listening, b. Improvised Spinner Making - https://www.youtube.com/
reading, writing, spelling and vocabulary. watch?time_continue=6&v=_Dj1yQt_yas&feature=emb_title
Language skills keep the brain in good condition c. Online Spinner - https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=
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and enhance cognitive skills and memory. hrough love&c2=friendship&c3=hate&c4=anger&col=wof&time=5
these skills, learners acquire, process, and apply þ A small box þ Strips of paper with written vocabulary
prior and new concepts. words
PROCEDURE SUGGESTIONS & ADVICE
F The teacher places the vocabulary words ü The activity can be customized into pairs, groups, or individually.
in a small box.
ü This can be used at the beginning of a topic, to introduce a
F The learner flicks the spinner, then picks concept, or as an assessment, in order to help ascertain the
from the box and read it.
up a word understanding and knowledge of the class.
Once he/she had the word, the fun
began! ü This may be utilized: in any subject areas like in Mathematics by
labeling the spinner sections with the steps in solving word
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F It's a game of chance! Learners may problems; in classroom duties by putting on the spinner pupils’
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have the chance to act, draw, rhyme, or tasks (sweeping the floor, arranging the books, etc.) to be done; or
define the word. She may also have to in any preferred activities.
put it in a sentence, name what part of
speech it is, or give a synonym or ü Make use of it as a Guessing Game. You can label the spinner
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antonym for it. For example, if the with Act out the word, Give a one -word definition, Give the
spinner stops at ‘Part of Speech’, he/she Antonym of the Word , 4Play Hangman on the board, 5Draw a
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must give the part of speech of the word picture to represent the word, Write a sentence using the word but
that he/she got from the box. leave the word out (or you may create your own preferred
choices). The teacher divides the class into groups of three or four.
F After answering what was being asked Have one player from a eam to come forward to spin the spinner.
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on the first spin, call on another learner The mystery word (given by the teacher) will be kept by the player
to do another spin and let him/her for himself and will do what the task in the spinner says. Upon
express idea about the same word. The doing the task, the rest of the group members will guess the
teacher may allot three spins for each mystery word.
word. When t hree spins were done,
learners will deal on the next REFERENCE:
vocabulary words and take turns. F https://wi01819897.schoolwires.net/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid
=375&da taid=218&FileName=Spinner%20Activities.pdf
F Bittman, E. Word Wheel. Retrieved from http://eisforexplore.blogspot.com/2012/05/
word -wheel.html
