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Owl Eyes Offers a Good Way to Guide Students Through Classic Literature Owl Eyes is a relatively new tool that provides teachers with a good way to provide students with guidance while they are reading classic literature. Owl Eyes provides teachers with tools to insert annotations and questions into classic literature. Students can see the annotations and questions that their teachers add to the digital text. Teachers have the option to create online classrooms through which they can monitor their students' progress through a text and view their students' annotations and answers to questions. The short videos embedded below will help you get started with Owl Eyes. Applications for Education Owl Eyes could be a good tool for guiding students through some difficult classic literature. I couldn't find an option to upload my own texts on Owl Eyes.

Reading Skills When you're a graduate people expect you to use a vocabulary which is wider than a school-leaver's. To expand your vocabulary: Choose a large dictionary rather than one which is ‘compact' or ‘concise'. You want one which is big enough to define words clearly and helpfully (around 1,500 pages is a good size). Avoid dictionaries which send you round in circles by just giving synonyms. A more comprehensive dictionary will tell you that impetuous means ‘rushing with force and violence', while another gives ‘liable to act without consideration', and add to your understanding by giving the derivation ‘14th century, from late Latin impetuous = violent'. It will tell you that rash means ‘acting without due consideration or thought', and is derived from Old High German rasc = hurried. So underlying these two similar words is the difference between violence and hurrying. Keep your dictionary at hand when you're studying. Improve your vocabulary by reading widely.

English Short Stories – Simple and Illustrated Improve your English with English short stories. This is the fun way! Important Note Make sure you start with stories at your level, and go gradually up. You can also check out the Learn English Video section. Click Here for Step-by-Step Rules, Stories and Exercises to Practice All English Tenses Level 01 – Beginners Introduction Story – a very basic story for beginners. Winter Story for Beginners in Easy English – practice winter vocabulary and basic sentence structure (positive sentences, negative sentences and yes/no questions) Click here for more English stories for complete beginners Level 02 – Beginners Plus – Easy English Stories Angela and Tom Series Story 01 – Angela and Tom meet Story 02 – Getting ready Story 03 – Flying to Texas Story 04 – Meeting Camilla Story 05 – Living in Texas Story 06 – I'm Hungry Story 07 – A Pen, a Bag and a Fan Level 03 – Elementary Story 01 – Daniel loves the beach Story 02 – April's month Story 03 – Emily's secret Story 04 – What are you talking about? Run and Play

Educational Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites Looking for great cultural and educational video? Then you’ve come to the right place. Below, we have compiled a list of 46 sites that feature intelligent videos. This list was produced with the help of our faithful readers, and it will grow over time. ABC Documentaries: This site pulls together some of the best documentaries aired on ABC television in Australia. Academic Earth: Some call this “the Hulu for education.” Arkive.org: The site gathers together “the very best films and photographs of the world’s species into one centralised digital library, to create a unique audio-visual record of life on Earth.” Australian Screen Archive: The Australian National Film and Sound Archive provides free and worldwide access to over 1,000 film and television titles – a treasury of down-under video 100 years in the making. BigIdeas: This show, which comes out of Canada, “offers a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science…. Pop!

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Reading Comprehension (#1) Get TOEFL Practice Online for Your Students! Dave Sperling Presents The.... by Dennis Oliver American Language and Culture Program, Arizona State University Special Instructions: Read the following paragraphs carefully, then press 'QUIZ ME' to see the comprehension questions. Happy New Years! Today is March 17th. The answer to the question you might've posed is that exactly when New Year's Day is depends on the calendar--and I have friends who use one or more of five different calendars to keep track of at least part of their lives: 1. 2. 3. 4. mid-July (usually the 16th): New Year's Day on the Islamic (Muslim) calendar 5. And these are just the New Year's Days that I know about!

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Free Reading Worksheets Ereading Worksheets has the best reading worksheets on the internet, and they’re all free. These worksheets are skill focused and aligned to Common Core State Standards. You are free to save, edit, and print these worksheets for personal or classroom use. Many of these assignments can now be completed online. You’re going to like this. Fictional Passages Jacob the Great Comprehension Test – Students read a short story about a kid cycling through hobbies and then answer comprehension, inferential, and literary element questions. Nonfiction Passages Nutrition Facts Comprehension Worksheet – Students read and compare the nutritional information from four “healthy” snacks and answer fifteen questions testing their ability to comprehend these functional texts.Nutrition Facts Comprehension Worksheet RTFNutrition Facts Comprehension Worksheet PDFPreview Nutrition Facts Comprehension Worksheet in Your Web Browser These activities will help students become successful readers. The Worst Game Ever?

I Love Chile News | It's News and a Whole Lot More Autism linked to genetic glitches – The Mercury News New research reveals that genetic glitches are linked to autism, a finding that might eventually lead to strategies to treat one of the most mysterious maladies in medical science. An international team of researchers, coordinated by a Stanford scientist, announced Wednesday that it has identified dozens of genetic errors linked to 5 percent to 10 percent of autism cases. Those errors — caused by missing or duplicated pieces of DNA — are believed to interfere with the brain’s messaging system. “Autism can be devastating to families, and we need better treatments,” said Dr. Joachim Hallmayer of the Stanford Autism Center at Packard Children’s Hospital. Hallmayer organized the 120-member collaborative Autism Genome Project, which studied the genetic data of 1,000 autistics from 11 different nations. Twin and familial studies have shown the condition to be highly genetic — yet no one has identified a single culprit. Autism is one of the more urgent health problems of the 21st century.