21 Digital Tools to Build Vocabulary. If you follow this blog, you know that I believe effective vocabulary instruction is just about the most important instructional activity for teachers to get right. For lots of reasons. Vocabulary influences fluency, comprehension, and student achievement. How’s that for starters? In addition, a broad vocabulary is important for effective speaking, listening, reading and writing. Vocabulary is a foundational component of an effective K-12 comprehensive literacy framework.
I write frequently about the importance of effective vocabulary instruction and my recent infographic – the 10 Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Vocabulary Instruction – has proved very popular having been Pinned over 31,000 times. In today’s 21st century classrooms, digital tools must coexist alongside more traditional tools. Digital tools have advantages. The following digital tools show promise to support word learning, review, and playing with language. 21 Digital Tools to Build Vocabulary Reference Tools 1. 2. 3.
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We surveyed more than 500 ESL teachers, including our own, from around the world to discover what tools they use to enhance their lessons. Take a look at the results in our infographic! Do you agree with the findings? Let us know by leaving a comment. Embed this Infographic on Your Site: <a href=" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12390" src=" alt="how to teach english" /></a><a href=" How to Teach English infographic</a> This infographic has been translated into Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Chinese, Russian, Italian, French, German, Turkish, Taiwanese, Czech, Polish and Spanish. A Collaborative English Grammar. I have to admit that I'm not a great fan of grammar, but this is a site that I do really like.
It's called English Language and Usage and it is like a Q & A of English grammar. The site has a huge collection of questions that people have sent in about various aspects of English grammar idioms and general usage and anyone who is registered can the try to answer the questions. Foreign Language Teaching Methods. About the Site Foreign Language Teaching Methods focuses on 12 different aspects of language teaching, each taught by a different expert instructor.
The site contains video footage from an actual methods course held at the University of Texas at Austin. This flexible resource is designed to be used by foreign language teachers as a component of a classroom methods course or as a stand-alone course for independent learners. “While I was taking this course, I was already changing what I was doing and I can already see the difference. ” - Verónica, beginning language teacher (Spanish)
My Resource Cloud. Welcome to this Slim the Ogre App on comparatives and superlatives.
The app contains 12 dynamic games to help young people understand everything there is to know about comparatives and superlatives. Suitable for: Teacher, Home Educator, Student, Parent Players: Single Published by: Bongo LLP Purchasing Information To purchase the resource please select the most appropriate platform by clicking on your chosen 'Platform Availability' option on the navigation to the top right of this page where specific platforms are listed. The platforms are Cloud based and you will be directed to the correct Learning Platform store page. Videos, Flashcards, Quizzes for Test prep of SAT.
21 Literacy Resources For The Digital Teacher. By Kimberly Tyson, Ph.D., learningunlimitedllc.com Update: This post was originally published in February, 2013.
My Resource Cloud. Connections (English words version) is an exciting motivational connect the letters game based upon Common Core Standard words.
The App is based upon random datasets, no two games will ever be the same. Suitable for: Teacher, Home Educator, Student, Parent Players: Single Published by: Bongo LLP Purchasing Information To purchase the resource please select the most appropriate platform by clicking on your chosen 'Platform Availability' option on the navigation to the top right of this page where specific platforms are listed. The platforms are Cloud based and you will be directed to the correct Learning Platform store page. A Collection of Great Interactive Sites for Teachers. Today as I was sifting through my feeds I came across this awesome treasure trove of educational websites curated in a Weebly page.I spent a couple of hours going through the links included in this resource and I found them really interesting and worth sharing with the readers of Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.
I am particularly adding them to the Educational Web Tools section. 6 Creative Ways to Teach Students Academic Vocabulary. When it comes to teaching academic vocabulary, you can have students endlessly copy new words into their notebooks or use new words in a sentence over and over.
Or you can get a little more creative. Here are some of our favorite ways to shake up word instruction: Post a bulletin board “graveyard” of overused words such as said, nice, and good. Have students write livelier alternatives to these “dead” words on paper tombstones. Invite students to take turns choosing an unusual word of the day from the dictionary. Question for you: Kindergaten & 1st Grades.
Learn something new every day - Memrise. English. How I learned a language in 22 hours. "What do you know about where I come from?
" That was one of the first questions I ever asked Bosco Mongousso, an Mbendjele pygmy who lives in the sparsely populated Ndoki forest at the far northern tip of the Republic of Congo. We were sitting on logs around a fire one evening four years ago, eating a dinner of smoked river fish and koko, a vitamin-rich wild green harvested from the forest. I'd come to this hard-to-reach corner of the Congo basin – a spot at least 50km from the nearest village – to report a story for National Geographic magazine about a population of chimpanzees who display the most sophisticated tool-use ever observed among non-humans.
Mongousso, who makes his living, for the most part, by hunting wildlife and gathering forest produce such as nuts, fruits, mushrooms and leaves, had teeth that had been chiselled to sharp points as a child. He stood about 1.4m (4ft 7in) tall and had a wide, wonderful grin that he exercised prolifically. How to practice real-world skills using drag-and-drop interactions - Articulate Storyline. Lang-8 - Мультиязычное изучение языков и языковой обмен. Language Exchange Community - Practice Foreign Languages. Jail means. Infinite Learning Lab. New Symbaloo Mixes for Kids. Over 40 books from the Starfall website.
Easy for kids to access and use. (click here) Also, all the letter songs from Have Fun Teaching (click here) Anglais. The Power of Fun WATcasts. Printable Graph Paper & Writing Paper & Templates. Horror, suspense and mystery has produced some of the greatest literature and film of all time, and what better time of year to capitalize on this genre of writing than Halloween. This Halloween writing pack will provide plenty of incentives and visuals to help your students produce their scariest work yet. These themed writing packs look great and will inspire kids to write and step up their presentation skills as opposed to simply writing on standard paper.
Download the Halloween themed writing Pack Here. The Pack looks great, and has 8 different themed pages that include. A Visual map for planning the characters, setting, problem & plot.A planning tool for constructing a narrative.Half Page Dotted thirds with a space for a pictureFull page themed dotted thirds with images.Bordered Themed lined writing paper. HS Language Arts Resource. SAT Vocabulary Building for ACT SAT and GRE Preparation. Berlin Airlift.
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