Short Stories for ESL students Everybody knows reading is good for language learners, but what do you do with students who aren’t ready for full-length books? Try short stories. Here are 4 fun quick reads that work well with intermediate+ students. Short Stories in the ESL Class How can teachers maximize the value of short stories? ESL Conversation Class This pair work activity combines reading, speaking and listening skills. Choose two stories. Next class, pair up students with different stories. Encourage students to offer their own views about the story. did they like it, or not (with reasons)describe the parts that were particularly interestingengage with the story by asking questions about the characters and their motivations (e.g. ESL Writing Class Short stories can be used as models. Here’s a noticing activity. summarize the character, plot and settinganalyze the text according to the 6+1 writing traits Why bother with the 6+1 writing traits? Short Stories 1. Is Scrabble a dangerous game? 2. 3. 4.
Best Short Stories for Middle Schoolers, As Chosen by Teachers Short stories are a perfect teaching tool for middle schoolers. Because they require less time to read, they’re an easy way to expose your students to new authors and genres. Also, between stylistic intricacies and plot twists, short stories hook readers and hold middle schoolers’ attention like nothing else. We’ve compiled this list of short stories that are great for teaching middle schoolers. Best Short Stories for Middle Schoolers 1. “The minute I walked in and the Big Bozo introduced us, I got sick to my stomach. Why I love this: Morrison’s stated goal in this short story, which begins in an orphanage, was to remove “all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial.” 2. “‘Does this safari guarantee I come back alive?’” “‘We guarantee nothing,’” said the official, ‘except the dinosaurs.’” Why I love this: It’s rich with descriptive language and fast-paced, dialogue-heavy action. 3. 4. Why I love this: Even though O. 5. 6. 7.
Adopt a City, instructions Reader Response Questions and Prompts for Fiction and Nonfiction 1. Explain a character's problem and then offer your character advice on how to solve his/her problem. 2. Explain how a character is acting and why you think the character is acting that way. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
Grades 6-8: Text Deep-Dive Concrete Found Poems Standards Met: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1; R.2; R.3 What You Need: Fiction, dramatic, or nonfiction texts; Concrete Found Poem reproducible; drawing or construction paper; pens, markers, and crayons What to Do: One novel way to go deeper into a prose text is through poetry. By combining two poetic forms—the concrete, or shaped, poem and the “found” poem, which is composed solely of words from another text—you can push students’ thinking and analysis to a higher level. Students will first decide what type of concrete found poem they’d like to create: character, setting, conflict, or theme. Chain of Events Standards Met: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1; R.3 What You Need: Fiction or nonfiction texts; Chain of Events reproducible; precut strips of different--colored construction paper; stapler; markers What to Do: Middle schoolers will create an actual chain of events to come to a deeper understanding of a story by working in pairs or groups to summarize key points or events.
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) - English levels The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF or CEFR) was put together by the Council of Europe as a way of standardising the levels of language exams in different regions. It is very widely used internationally and all important exams are mapped to the CEFR. There are six levels: A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2. These are described in the table below. Click here to see which exams are at which CEFR levels. Click here to do a test to see which level to study at and here to see what grammar you should know at each level. This page in Spanish, French, German Advertisements
Silent viewing – att lära ut språklig interaktion Att träna språklig interaktion utan att eleverna känner att det blir tvunget är svårt många gånger. Ett sätt att få igång kommunikationen är genom sk silent viewing. Det är filmklipp utan ljud som man tittar på och sedan kan man: Förutspå – om man tittar på en del av sekvensen och sedan gissar vad som ska komma härnäst.Ordlistor – man skriver ner ord som rör sekvensen och sedan återberättar historien.Eleverna kan skriva dialogerna och läsa in och göra en text/tal till sekvensen.Eleverna kan skriva om historien med ett annat slut och sedan dela med varandra.I grupper kan en elev titta på filmen och sen återberätta för de andra som sitter med ryggen mot – en sk bakdörr.Eleverna kan fylla i ord på vissa ställen där ljudet är avstängt – sk cloze listening. Det går ju givetvis bra att bara stänga av ljudet på vilken filmsekvens som helst. Förslag på tysta filmklipp att använda är:
Taking Notes By Hand May Be Better Than Digitally, Researchers Say Laptops are common in lecture halls worldwide. Students hear a lecture at the Johann Wolfang Goethe-University on Oct. 13, 2014, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images Laptops are common in lecture halls worldwide. As laptops become smaller and more ubiquitous, and with the advent of tablets, the idea of taking notes by hand just seems old-fashioned to many students today. For one thing, research shows that laptops and tablets have a tendency to be distracting — it's so easy to click over to Facebook in that dull lecture. In the study published in Psychological Science, Pam A. "When people type their notes, they have this tendency to try to take verbatim notes and write down as much of the lecture as they can," Mueller tells NPR's Rachel Martin. Mueller and Oppenheimer cited that note-taking can be categorized two ways: generative and nongenerative. But the students taking notes by hand still performed better.
The Best Story Ever „The Body“ by Stephen King: The Body by Stephen King The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them--words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were In your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. I was twelve going on thirteen when I first saw a dead human being. We had a treehouse in a big elm which overhung a vacant lot in Castle Rock. Nobody's garden had done doodly-squat that year, and the big displays of canning stuff in the Castle Rock Red & White were still there, gathering dust. 'You four-eyed pile of shit!' 'Who goes?'
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