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Språkutveckling med karaktärer och oväntade slut med hjälp av Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl skulle ha fyllt 100 år den 13 september.

Språkutveckling med karaktärer och oväntade slut med hjälp av Roald Dahl

Det uppmärksammas på olika håll genom att flera av hans böcker ges ut på nytt och nyligen släpptes hans bok SVJ som spelfilm. På hans officiella hemsida RoaldDahl.com finns det lektionsupplägg som du kan använda i undervisningen och du hittar även en hel del upplägg som lärare i delar på hans fan site. Rapid Reads. "An agreeable journey with a smart, sassy heroine who's not nearly as tough as she likes to think she is," (Kikrus Reviews).

Rapid Reads

Learn more about William Kowalski's latest Rapid Read, Epic Game. Gina Gallo is back in The Goddaughter Caper, and this time she gets drawn into a body caper mystery against her better judgement. CM Magazine says, "Campbell creates a page-turner that is fast moving, exciting and filled with twists and turns...Highly Recommended. " In her first novel featuring recurring sleuth Leena O’Neil, Dayle Campbell Gaetz "left readers on the edge of their seats with anticipation for Leena's next adventure.

" —CM Magazine Read the full review of Disappearing Act. "Linda Richards’ strong female characters in If It Bleeds offer the reader a fresh and interesting perspective into the modern day life of a Vancouver greenhorn journalist in this page turning mystery. " William Kowalski takes home East Coast Literary Award! And the winner is...Melodie Campbell! Dyslexia friendly books. Featured Books - Owl Eyes. ReadTheory. 25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area. 25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area Reading is reading.

25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area

By understanding that letters make sounds, we can blend those sounds together to make whole sounds that symbolize meaning we can all exchange with one another. Without getting too Platonic about it all, reading doesn’t change simply because you’re reading a text from another content area. Only sometimes it does. Science content can often by full of jargon, research citations, and odd text features. Social Studies content can be an interesting mix of itemized information, and traditional paragraphs/imagery. Literature? This all makes reading strategies somewhat content area specific.

But if you’d like to start with a basic set of strategies, you could do worse than the elegant graphic above from wiki-teacher.com. Looking for related curricula ideas? Teaching Resources. Questions and activities for students are available for the following stories: We have collection of games to help build vocabulary and understanding.

Teaching Resources

Click here to go to the games. Our games are available for licensing by educational institutions. Games can be loaded with word lists provided by the educator. Contact us here for more information. For the convenience of students, double clicking on any word in a story will bring up a dictionary definition along with an audio pronunciation of the word. We are in the process of building up an online resource of teaching materials for use with short stories. Materials are presented with a suggested age range for those studying English as a first language and an indication of the language level for those studying English as an additional language. To access the materials, use the list above. If you are interested in sharing materials, please contact us here. "Flowers" by Alice Walker. "The Flowers" by Alice Walker Reading and Writing about Short Fiction.

"Flowers" by Alice Walker

Ed. Edward Proffitt. NY: Harcourt, 1988. 404-05. It seemed to Myop as she skipped lightly from hen house to pigpen to smokehouse that the days had never been as beautiful as these. Myop carried a short, knobby stick. Turning her back on the rusty boards of her family’s sharecropper cabin, Myop walked along the fence till it ran into the stream made by the spring.

She had explored the woods behind the house many times. By twelve o’clock, her arms laden with sprigs of her findings, she was a mile or more from home. Myop began to circle back to the house, back to the peacefulness of the morning. He had been a tall man. Reading comprehension - Kimstudies. Träna lässtrategier med kortfilmer på engelska. Jag städade bland filmerna hemma och hittade en DVD med kortfilmer.

Träna lässtrategier med kortfilmer på engelska

Jag läste på baksidan och tänkte att dessa måste ju vara bra att använda som utgångspunkt för att träna lässtrategier. Filmerna är korta nog att hålla intresset uppe och det ges många ledtrådar att tolka budskap och göra kopplingar till sig själv, andra filmer eller böcker och världen. Jag visar här hur jag gick vidare i min tanke och fick ett uppslag att undervisa utifrån. Jag satte mig på Pinterest och såg att jag inte var den enda läraren som sett möjligheten. jag började skapa ett dokument med länkar på filmer, frågor för diskussion samt tänkbara skrivuppgift. Av en slump hamnade jag på en lärarblogg skapad av Jamie Speed och jag har varit in på den i andra sammanhang då den innehåller en hel del bra material.

Jag gjorde för något år sedan ett arbetsblad för läsning men det fungerar även för film. Hur du kan hitta egna guldkorn på Pinterst Mer om filmers användningsområden.