This activity is to be used as a class starter (appetizer) to turn on your class attention in a dynamic way that will help your students to switch from other subject to Spanish and will help them focus on the language.
Why cryptograms?
In order to solve a cryptogram our students have to confront a process of rewriting a word searching for meaning and at the same time they have to find and check a global significance for the phrase, sentence or complete message.
Through this process students use a previous representation of the word that they will use as a guide to order the letters. Just the correct order of the different letters will result in a comprehensible final message.
By doing this our students are working out many different interesting skills (not just for language). If you want to know more, read the justification in the presentation.
In order to solve a cryptogram our students have to confront a process of rewriting a word searching for meaning and at the same time they have to find and check a global significance for the phrase, sentence or complete message.
Through this process students use a previous representation of the word that they will use as a guide to order the letters. Just the correct order of the different letters will result in a comprehensible final message.
By doing this our students are working out many different interesting skills (not just for language). If you want to know more, read the justification in the presentation.
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Hola, ¿cómo estás?
ResponderEliminarYo uso puzzlemaker para hacer criptogramas, crucigramas, etc, es muy útil
Hola Exiliada, estamos bien por aquí.
ResponderEliminarMuchas gracias por el aporte, no la conocía esa web y es fantástica!