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Grammar Checker and Synonym Tool by Ginger. On In Under By Song. High frequency words reading game. A List of The Best Free Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers. 1- ZimmerTwins It is all about creative storytelling.

A List of The Best Free Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers

ZimmerTwins is a web2.0 tool that allows students to give vent to their imaginative powers and exercise their storytelling skills from early stages to advances ones. 2- Digital Story Telling in The Classroom This section provides resources and materials for teachers to use with their students in storytelling. It helps students personalize their learning and perform better. Students can use these materials to create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their stories. 3- Story Bird This is an awesome website that allows students and teachers to create short art inspired stories to read, share or print out. Glossary. 5 Tips For Teaching Young Students Proper Grammar. Children can cope with learning grammar from the age of 5. Over the last 21 years, we have worked with schools to develop synthetic phonics programs and, latterly, grammar programs to cater for early years learning.

We know that children at a young age display a good knowledge of how to use language: they already use perfect tenses such as “I have been playing”, they will use the continuous tense; “I was watching television”. We shouldn’t view the teaching of grammar as difficult or something children will not be able to deal with but as something to get excited about. Grammar gives them a better understanding of what they are already using. Taking a child beyond their initial experience is all part of learning and hugely rewarding for child and for the teacher. As the child constructs sentences with the tools they’re being given then a stability develops that doesn’t exist if the child is expected to just pick it up through reading in context. Twominute English.

Common Errors in English Usage. Use the search form below to find words and phrases on this site.

Common Errors in English Usage

About this Search Engine E e.g. / i.e. Each early adapter earmarks / hallmark earth, moon easedrop ecology / environment economic / economical ecstatic ect. 23 Free Learning Tools For Monological, Dialogical and Polyphonic Forms of Teaching. How Students Benefit From Using Social Media 12.98K Views 0 Likes A lot of criticism has been leveled at social media and the effect it has on the way students process and retain information, as well as how distracting it can be.

However, social media offers plenty of opportunities for learning and interactivity, and if you take a moment to think about it, it's not too hard to see how students benefit from using social media. 10 African-American History Month Teaching Resources 1.26K Views 0 Likes This week’s Featured Ten Learnist boards are dedicated to African-American history month. 3 Tech Tips Your Grandma Could Teach You.

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So...You Wanna Be A Blogger

Digital Storytelling with Voicethread (and How to Do It Offline) As regular readers of this blog will know, I love doing things in class that are simple yet productive and full of student-generated content.

Digital Storytelling with Voicethread (and How to Do It Offline)

It might be something like a drawing activity that leads into a whole series of other tasks, a couple of everyday items as the basis of discussion, or, as featured on my recent guest post on Teaching Village, a basic digital camcorder and some very creative young minds. Another simple but effective web 2.0 tool I really like using is Voicethread. Games to Learn English - For Students. Voice of America - Learn English with Special English Lessons - VOA Learning English. VOA Special English. Richard Wiseman. Как выучить английские неправильные глаголы. Английский язык всё больше и больше приобретает статус международного.

Его учат в странах Евросоюза, России, Китае. Со знанием английского языка проще устроиться на хорошую работу. Возможно, секрет в том, что это - язык ведущих стран мира. А возможно, в том, что он достаточно прост и структурирован. Flashcards for everyone from everywhere. Test Your Vocabulary.

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False Friends Exercise. Wyatt, Rawdon - Check Your Vocabulary for TOEFL. Exercise 1Look at these sentences and decide if the statement which follows each one is true or false.

Wyatt, Rawdon - Check Your Vocabulary for TOEFL

Use thewords and expressions in bold to help you decide. General Vocabulary Changes 1. There has been a dramatic increase. Classroom Timers - Fun Timers. Passion4english. English. Flashcards. Dictionaries. Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are. Fun Easy English - English tests, exams, quizzes, practice. English phonetic exercises. English exercises: Phonetics. BASIC » English video lessons and exercises.

Full of tips and ideas for creating ELT and ESOL resources. Copy of Ways to Use ThingLink in the Classroom. 26+ Ways to Use Thinglink in the Classroom. An Interactive Mind Map Made With Thinglink. This morning I saw a Tweet from Thinglink Edu about an interactive image of examples of uses of Thinglink in education.

An Interactive Mind Map Made With Thinglink

One of the examples was this interactive mind map created by Phillipe Packu. The mind map is a drawing that was uploaded to Thinglink then pinned with videos, images, audio files, and links to example each part of the mind map. I've embedded the mind map below. Applications for Education I've written about Thinglink a bunch of times because I think that it can be a very useful tool for students to tag and identify important elements in images. SuperLearning for Kids MindMapping. Interactive mind map with ThingLink. An Interactive Image. Copy of Ways to Use ThingLink in the Classroom - "Google Docs" Подготовка к ЕГЭ 2013. Chat Abbreviations, Text Message Abbreviations, Instant Message, Chat, IM, Text Messaging, SMS Abbreviations, at TechDictionary.com ™, the online computer dictionary.

Text Messaging, Chat Abbreviations and Smiley Faces - Webopedia. Updated November 16, 2016 / Posted March 01, 2004 By Vangie Beal This chat guide lists more than 1,460 text message and online chat abbreviations to help you translate today's texting lingo.

Text Messaging, Chat Abbreviations and Smiley Faces - Webopedia

With the popularity and rise in use of online text-based communications came the emergence of a new texting language, tailored to the immediacy and compactness of these new communication media. Today, text and chat abbreviations are used in Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging, email, Internet and online gaming services, chat rooms, discussion boards and mobile phone text messaging (SMS).