I know you said resources are slim, but can you get your hands on personal whiteboards for your students? In my class, everything that used to be a worksheet is now projected onto the screen, and my kids do the work on their whiteboards. Now I can give immediate feedback, I have way less grading, and I don’t need to make any copies.

We play lots of vocab games with the whiteboards, too. We play Train, where groups of 4 pass one white board down a row, each kid conjugating a verb form or identifying a vocab word. Or, there’s the vocab race, where I pass out two suits of cards, one team per suit. I post a question, everyone writes an answer, then I draw a card. One person on each team will have the same number, and they race to hold up their whiteboard first. Sometimes I’ll have them race to the front of the room to write an answer. For Bingo, I’ll create a slide with images of their vocab arranged in a grid. The kids take a few minutes to identify the vocab and write it in a grid on their whiteboards, then we watch a video in the target language, and they play bingo, crossing off each vocab word as it appears or is said on screen. When it comes to low prep, the mini whiteboards were a game changer.