Weareteachers. If you follow many teachers on social media, you know that one-pagers are suddenly all the rage.
I can see why. They’re visually stunning, represent lots of critical thinking, and show each student’s originality and perspective. As an educator, I love them. Here’s a little more about how I use one-pagers in English Language Arts, as well as some amazing one-pager examples. What are one-pagers? 15 post-reading activities. The following board contains a series of activities that the students can choose to do after reading a novel or a short story.
Students take on a number of roles, such as detective, journalist, designer or disc jockey, to work on a particular area. When used as a whole group, with the teacher assigning all the roles to different students in the group, the result will be a creative, in-depth study that analyses the narrative text from multiple perspectives. What To Do With Reading Texts: 10 Creative Ways. Junk (Smack) by Melvin Burgess. “Everyone should read Junk.” — The Times Authors Note Junk won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children’s fiction award in 1997.
There were howls of protest from the right wing press – especailly the Daily Mail. It was on radio and TV, there were articles and cartoons and much breast beating about the loss of innocence in young people today and where on earth is children’s fiction going. But there was also a great deal of positive reaction. Hogwarts Digital Escape Room.
Short Story Examples Online in English: Narrative Database, Directory, and Lists. Lion - A long way home (Helena Andréasson FB) School Radio - A Christmas Carol, 1: Marley's Ghost. The Perks of Being a Wallflower- a book, digital tools and free lesson plans. This semester I have been working with the book The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
The book is written by Stephen Chbosky. I chose to use the online version of the book since that version also has an audio version and the students are able to listen while they are reading. Diskussionsfrågor allmänna av Annette Vinberg. For Janey+questions. Planering för Diary of Wimpy Kid. Färdigt tema för år 7 kring boken - Walkabout - Sara Bruun.
Book Excerpt: My Forbidden Face, by Latifa. — When the Taliban took over the Afghan capital, Kabul, in 1997, Latifa was a 16-year-old teenager, listening to Elvis and dreaming of going to college.
The Taliban's harsh rule transformed her life for the next four years. Following is an excerpt from her book, My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban — A Young Woman's Story, which she wrote in exile after fleeing the Taliban regime in 2001. Chapter One. For ESL English Language Learners. The memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-year-old mind.
Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; the world of the circus. To Jacob it was both salvation and hell.
The Devil's Angel by Kevin Brooks - review. The Devil's Angel by Kevin Brooks tells the tale of the unlikely friendship between two boys, Jack and Dean.
Jack appears to be unremarkable, living the typical life of a teenager, when Dean arrives. He is rebellious and wild, completely disregarding any rules and living life at breakneck speed. Jack can sense there is something different about Dean, and they embark upon a close friendship, even forming a successful band together. At first, Dean appears to be like any other teenage rebel, revelling in the freedom of drugs and drink and doing whatever he chooses. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Book log. Sherlock Holmes English.
EnglishTheWave - Student materials. " How could the Germans sit back while the Nazis slaughtered people all around them and say they didn't know about it?
How could they do that? How could they even say that? " Literature cards. Short stories for EFL learners by Scott Lauder and Walter McGregor. Part 1 - The Return of Sherlock Holmes Audiobook by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Adventures 01-03) The fault in our stars. Classic Short Stories. Go ask Alice. Ray Bradbury. The Four Things Students Need to Create Good Book Trailers. Creating book trailer videos is a great alternative to a traditional written book report assignment.
In a book trailer video students highlight their favorite elements of a story and try to entice viewers to read the book themselves. Much like a movie trailer that tries to get viewers to watch the full movie, a book trailer should give viewers just enough to be interested in the full story without giving away the conclusion to the story. If you have heard of book trailers and wanted to try having your create book trailers, here are the four things they'll need to get started after reading a book. A script/ outline: Before I let students start to assemble a video, I make them write a script or outline for the video. Writing a script or outline forces students to think about the points that they want to emphasize in their videos without thinking about the technical aspects of the video creation process.
For ESL English Language Learners. What is most notable about this funny, touching, memorable novel is the resounding accuracy with which the author captures the voice of a boy on the brink of adulthood.
Charlie is a freshman. And while's he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower--shy and introspective, and intelligent. We learn about Charlie through the letters he writes. Charlie encounters the same struggles that many kids face in high school--how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, family tensions, a first relationship, exploring sexuality, experimenting with drugs--but he must also deal with his best friend's recent suicide. 40 Excellent Short Stories For Middle School. The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories.
Let's read together! - Billy Elliot - Mia Smith. Esl-bits.net - ESL English Listening - Audiobooks for ESL Students and Adult Literacy - adult-literacy.us. Mark Furr's magic discussion circles.docx. The Landlady. About this BritLit kit Billy Weaver, a young man visiting the City of Bath for the first time, is looking for accommodation. He is inexplicably drawn to a house where the landlady seems to be expecting him. The house and the landlady seem friendly and welcoming, and he looks forward to staying there. Signing the guest book, two names disturb him. Where has he heard them before? Why aren't there any other guests?
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