Google Lit Trips for Young Readers Where in the world will our youngest readers travel as they discover the world of books! Reading About Reading Kind Words Site Map Kelly Gallagher – Resources Part of the reason my students have such a hard time reading is because they bring little prior knowledge and background to the written page. They can decode the words, but the words remain meaningless without a foundation of knowledge. To help build my students’ prior knowledge, I assign them an "Article of the Week" every Monday morning. By the end of the school year I want them to have read 35 to 40 articles about what is going on in the world.
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250 Google Tools Tutorials for Teachers A few years ago I decided to start making video tutorials for the many Google tools that I write about on this blog and feature in some of my professional development workshops. This week I created my 250th Google tools tutorial. All of my Google tools tutorial videos can be found in this YouTube playlist. The tutorials in the playlist cover a wide range of features of Google tools for teachers and students.
Be a better writer in 15 minutes: 4 TED-Ed lessons on grammar and word choice There’s no denying it — the English language can be mighty tricky. When writing a paper, a novel or even an e-mail, you might look at a sentence you just wrote and think, “Is that comma supposed to be there?” or “Is that really the best word to use?” Fear not! TED-Ed has put together a list of four of our favorite grammar and language lessons to get your next piece of writing in tip-top shape.
ESL News New ZealandGrammy Awards » ESL News New Zealand You probably already know that Lorde won two Grammy awards yesterday. She had been nominated for four awards and won two. She won the Best Pop Solo Performance. Today’s Education Should Be About Giving Learners Voice and Choice Some of the recurring themes of my conference presentations and blog posts include: The underlying theme of all of my ideas, of all of my blog posts is about setting up the conditions where learners’ choice and voice flourish. I have come to believe that the only real education is one that fully embraces learner choice and voice. All instructional practices in this era of learning should revolve around learner choice and voice:
Teaching for Success: Lessons and Teaching - British Council This free online course is for English language teachers around the world. It will help you develop the skills and practices you need for your continuing professional development (CPD). This course is part of our Teaching for Success: Practices for English Language Teaching program. Online Quizzes: Take Online Quiz - ProProfs Quizzing is a great way to fulfill the need to learn in the most engaging way possible. Quiz yourself or create a quiz for your peers, students, friends, customers, or employees. There’s something for everyone. Dive into some of these top quizzes and explore the unknown. Take as many quizzes as you want - we bet you won’t stop at just one!
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ISTE Standards for Teachers this site/tool supports: Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness., Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources., Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes., Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources., Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards, and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching., Address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources., Develop and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital age communication and collaboration tools. by joshuacarr Sep 7
Yes! Exactly, that's the interesting thing when you work on differentiated lessons. by bagsclub Oct 29
Current events news articles that teachers can customize for students that require the same content at different reading levels. by d.jung Mar 20