Spellbee! SpellBEE is a new kind of spelling activity. Each time you play, you will be able to choose a partner and play a word game with them. It's fun! You can even call up a friend and play Spellbee with them! A member site of BEEweb.org Interactive Books Interactive Books in 2021 - 27 février Je remercie tous les professeurs et les élèves qui, pendant dix ans, ont utilisé mes livres interactifs. Afin de pouvoir continuer à les utiliser, vous allez avoir la possibilité de les télécharger pour une installation locale. Merci de respecter ce travail qui a nécessité un certain nombre d’heures. Merci de ne pas mettre en téléchargement les fichiers zippés sur votre propre blog ou site.
Literably Is An Excellent Reading Site — If Used With Caution Reader Erika Chapman tipped me off to an excellent site called Literably. It allows students to read a text and have it automatically assessed for accuracy and words-per-minute speed. Plus, and this is what was most surprising to me, it also provides a fairly accurate indentification of student errors — in other words, what word they said instead of the word in the text. You’re able to provide the student or parent a link to the recording. And it’s free. It’s extraordinarily easy to use. As I have already mentioned, the site seems remarkably accurate based on my testing, and I’ll have my students try it out later today. I’ve previously posted about how I have had students record their reading of the same text several times during the year as a self-assessment, using tools from The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English list. And, now, for my cautions…. A words per minute number can be dangerous if students are just racing through the words. The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English
Phrasalstein Tablet Après le succès du lancement de la Phrasal Verb Machine, voici maintenant Phrasalstein, l’application définitive qui va vous aider à vous débarrasser une fois pour toutes de vos craintes concernant les horribles verbes à particule. Cette fois-ci, notre vedette est le Docteur Phrasalstein qui, avec l’aide de ses amis, va vous apprendre 100 verbes à particule en utilisant des animations inspirées par le genre « film d’horreur » classique, avec une touche d’humour et d’ironie… Vous trouverez 60 des 100 animations au total dans cette première version de l’App. Les quarante restantes seront bientôt à votre disposition avec la prochaine mise à jour et l’App continuera, bien sûr, d’être gratuite. Il est fréquent que les verbes à particule aient plus d’une signification. Si vous avez aimé la Phrasal Verb Machine, nous sommes certains que vous adorerez Phrasalstein. Si vous avez une tablette à écran de 7 pouces, nous vous recommandons de télécharger la version de smartphone.
What Are Modifiers? A modifier is a word, phrase, or clause which functions as an adjective or an adverb to describe a word or make its meaning more specific. Modifiers can play the roles of adjectives or adverbs. Modifiers As Adjectives When a modifier is an adjective, it modifies a noun or a pronoun. (In these examples, the modifiers are shaded, and the words being modified are bold). Lee caught a small mackerel. When a modifier is an adverb, it modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Lee accidentally caught a small whelk. Read more about adjective phrases.Read more about adjective clauses.Read more about adverbial clauses.Read more about adjective phrases.
NAPLAN 2010 Teaching Strategies NAPLAN 2010 Teaching Strategies Linking NAPLAN 2010 to the Curriculum The teaching strategies in this site provide support to teachers and enable explicit links from the assessment to the curriculum. Browser compatibilities This site is compatible with Internet Explorer 6 and above, Firefox 3 and above, and Safari 4 and above. Reporting problems To report broken links or any other functional problem in the site, please send an email to naplan@det.nsw.edu.au. Site content as pdf Each teaching strategy has the option of "print as pdf" by clicking this icon on the teaching strategy pages: For each strategy, this button accesses a pdf of all the teaching strategies for the particular strand. To download the numeracy or literacy sections of this site in their entirety in pdf form, refer here
Projects to Engage Middle School Readers It's my fault. I'll admit it. During my eight years in the classroom, I ruined at least two amazing literary works by assigning horrifically dull reading projects. Peanuts raises some interesting questions about the value of reading projects. In middle school, we ask students to dissect texts and perform literary analysis. Demonstrate understanding of the plot elementsExplore the role of tone and themeIdentify significant scenes or events and their impact on the storyAnalyze a character and show an understanding of that character's motivationsExplain the relationship between the author's life and the story . . . does it have to be an essay or book report? Book Trailers In the spirit of movie trailers, book trailers allow students to create video advertisements to entice new readers. Students could use iMovie or Animoto to create and publish their videos. Podcasts Choose Your Own Adventure My middle school students struggled with identifying and comprehending the concept of foreshadowing.
Friday Fun Archive Students worked hard all week? Do they deserve a special reward for a job well done? The lesson and project ideas below are meant to fill the bill for Friday afternoon fun and learning. Some are simple games or activities that will reinforce skills as they offer a nice break from structured learning. Profile Posters Learn about students' interests from the "profile posters" they create. Charting a Year of Growth Older students and younger buddies team up for yearlong fun. A Week in the Life of A yearlong project creates a great end-of-year memento. Getting-to-Know-You Venn Diagram Students discover common interests and unique abilities. Chain Gang A colorful chain promotes teamwork all year long. The Alphabet Game Use this lively, team-based game to reinforce spelling skills. Wax Museum Biographies This engaging lesson in history could be used as a Halloween alternative. Pop Up a Card This art activity offers monstrous Halloween fun. Micrography and Martin Luther King Jr.
SMART Teaching Strategies Sentences are key units for expressing ideas. Students in Stage 1 are using sentence structure in their writing to compose longer texts that achieve the intended purpose. Students at this stage need to use compound and some complex sentences for expressing connected and elaborated ideas in writing. Strategy Explicit Teaching There are different types of sentences: simple, compound and complex: Simple sentences are structured by a single main clause. Students in Stage 1 need to write accurate simple and compound sentences and learn to recognise and compose some complex sentences. Introduce students to complex sentence structure. General Strategies Engage students with frequent experiences of hearing, reading and viewing texts with a variety of sentence structures. Teach students how to join sentences using different conjunctions for different purposes (for example and, but, because). Activities to support the strategy Activity 1 Sentences can grow! Activity 2 Conjunctions Bank Online resources
Telescopic Text © Joe Davis 2008 Why some kids can’t spell and why spelling tests won’t help A couple of years ago, early one morning, I received an SMS advising “resadents to stay indoors because of a nearby insadent”. I was shocked by the spelling, as much as the message. Surely, I thought, if it was a real message then the spelling would be correct. Spelling matters. Spelling remains the most relentlessly tested of all the literacy skills, but it is the least taught. Sending a list of words home on Monday to be tested on Friday is not teaching. Looking, covering, writing and checking does not teach spelling. And yet, this is a good summary of most of the current spelling programs in schools today. So, what should spelling teaching look like? Finding meaning Children should know the meanings of the words they spell, and as logical as that sounds - ask a child in your life what this week’s spelling words mean, and you might be surprised by their answers. That is not only very very hard, it’s pointless. More than sounds How words make their meanings Where words come from
Schools need advice on how to help students with reading difficulties As students prepare to go back to school, it’s estimated that between 10% to 16% of those aged from five to 16 years will have reading difficulties such as dyslexia and inadequate comprehension skills. All teaching makes particular assumptions about how students tend to learn. For these students, regular literacy teaching will be insufficient. They need alternative teaching pathways. Despite numerous policies, such as the Literacy and Numeracy National Partnership, and the A$706.3 million spent between 2008-2014 on reading programs to support students, literacy underachievement continues to plague Australian education, suggesting that current interventions are not working for all students. The problem is not a lack of research about what works. School leaders are responsible for making definitive decisions about educational provision in their schools. Why do some students struggle with reading? Reading comprehension is a complex process. What’s needed Interventions that work