The first of these articles examined the basic principles which support the use of the Cuisenaire Rods (rods) in the language learning classroom. Cuisenaire Rod Activities 1 TESOL Connections: October 2013 Cuisenaire Rod Activities for Language Development by . In his book 'Teaching and Learning Languages' (1988) Stevick describes them as: "wooden or plastic blocks one square centimetre in cross section and one to ten centimetres in length. What are . The rods are normally Cuisenaire rods are used in the Silent Way, a teaching methodology associated with humanism. Cuisenaire Rods offer many possibilities for forming and discovering number patterns both through creating designs that are growing according to some pattern and through finding the number of ways in which a rod can be made as the sum of other rods. This second scenario can lead to the concept of factors of a number and prime numbers. Cuisenaire rods come in boxes like a building set. Smaller rods indicate the words that will need to be pronounced weakly in the sentence. The teacher can easily use rods to represent a house, a table, a bed, etc. [22] After the interest shown in the Cuisenaire Rods workshop at the Recent EdYouFest teachers’ event in South West England, I decided to write a little about them as a precursor to a 3 day Cuisenaire Rods ‘Retreat’ which will be held sometime in the new year. A box contains 10 different sizes of rod. Learn how Cuisenaire Rods can help your students develop a solid understanding various math concepts by using visual tools to help them assess their own work. It reveals a lot about the power of the imagination. Explore more than 43 'Cuisenaire Rods' resources for teachers, parents and pupils as well as related resources on 'Cuisinaire Rods' Thousands of FREE teaching resources to download Pick your own FREE resource every week with Cuisenaire rods, you ask? The first time I saw Cuisenaire rods being used in the language classroom I had no idea how much fun they could be. Below are some example activities for using Cuisenaire rods in class (but just using a little bit of imagination, I am sure teachers and students alike can find many uses for them): Anchor Point:4Some activities for using rods with young learners. 1. For example: This is Mr. Brown. Telling Stories Using Cuisenaire Rods. A set of Cuisenaire rods The silent way makes use of specialized teaching materials: colored Cuisenaire rods , the sound-color chart, word charts, and Fidel charts.

Example Rods of one colour are used to represent verbs, another is added at the end to represent the past -ed form. In the classroom Many uses have been found for rods in the classroom. The first time I saw Cuisenaire rods being used in the language classroom I had no idea how much fun they could be.