Teaching children English through activities is a great way to get them involved in learning. This will also help those students who learn more through doing than listening. One example: have the children draw what the word is describing in addition to spelling it. For example, with the word "home" you can have the children draw their home and for the word "jump" you can have the children draw someone jumping.

Write out the word that the children are going to learn out on the dry erase wall. Do not draw you own picture at this point, just spell the word out. Ask the children what they think that word means to try to get them to grapple with the construction of the word. When the children start to get close, tell them the exact definition of the word and write it out underneath the word.

Give the children scrap paper and have them draw what the think the word encompasses. For example, the word "Home" have the children draw what they consider to home to embody. Do not correct them at this time, just let them work with the word on their own.

Draw your own picture on the dry erase board when the children are done with theirs. Tell them about what you think home is and how that relates to the definition provided by the dictionary. This illustrates how a word can differ depending upon the user. You presentation also helps make the children at ease as they will come up and explain their drawings.

Draw a separate picture on the dry erase board that incorporates features from all the children drawings to show what they consider a home to be. Have the children come up and make any additions they want as well so they have a sense of ownership in the project. Discuss how some children drew an apartment as home while others drew a house, why some had two houses and others had one. The object is to get them to use the word home in different scenarios so they internalize it's meaning.