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World Digital Library Home Läsning på djupet - läsning tillsammans - Mia Smith Många rapporter kommer om att elever går ut grundskolan utan att ha läst en hel bok. Jag har bestämt mig för att göra det jag kan för att motverka detta, så nu läser mina elever böcker i engelska. Mycket av detta har jag läslyftet att tacka, både gällande metoder och mod att våga. Just nu kör jag ett projekt där två klasser samarbetar. För att få ihop samarbetet har jag byggt läsprocessen på digitalt samarbete. Steg 1 Val av bok, uppstart och ett första gruppsamtal. Steg 2 Eleverna fick sedan fortsätta läsa enskilt. Steg 3 Som avslutning samlas vi till ett ytterligare samtal. “Genom undervisningen i ämnet religionskunskap ska eleverna sammanfattningsvis ges förutsättningar att utveckla sin förmåga att […] resonera och argumentera kring moraliska frågeställningar och värderingar utifrån etiska begrepp och modeller.” Steg 4 Gruppdiskussioner i all ära, jag vill att eleverna ska få en chans att visa sin personliga reflektion också.
Tiny Texts | Read, listen & learn a littleEnglish Forgotten Nations History Rome annihilated Carthage to ensure it would never again rise as a major threat. The Ottomans forever ended Byzantium’s glory. 10BurgundyWestern Europe France’s greatest historical rivals are often considered to be England or Germany. We’ve previously mentioned how Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne, divided the Carolingian Empire among his sons. For a time, it seemed that fortune favored Burgundy. 9NovgorodEastern Europe The city of Novgorod, whose residents sometimes called it “Lord Novgorod the Great,” truly lived up to its name. By the 14th century, Novgorod had become one of the busiest trading ports in Europe—an estimated 400,000 people lived in the city. Sadly, this state of affairs wouldn’t last forever. Ivan III, also known as “Ivan the Great,” invaded the city in 1471, subsequently annexing it in 1478. 8The Qara-KhitaiCentral Asia During the 12th century A.D., the Khitan people, led by Yelu Dashi, fled west to escape the onslaught of the Jurchen tribes.
Short Stories at East of the Web A game of Scrabble has serious consequences. - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG - Genre: Crime, Humor A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger. - Length: 7 pages - Genre: Fiction, Humor ‘Bloody hell!’ - Genre: Humor Looking round he saw an old woman dragging a bucket across the floor and holding a mop. - Length: 3 pages Henry pours more coal onto the hearth as a gust of wind rattles through the cracked window frame. - Length: 14 pages - Genre: Horror ulissa Ye relished all the comfortable little routines and quietude defining her part-time job at The Bookery, downtown’s last small, locally-owned bookstore. - Length: 8 pages - Age Rating: U The forest looked ethereal in the light from the moon overhead. - Length: 15 pages - Age Rating: 18 Corporal Earnest Goodheart is crouched in a ditch on the edge of an orchard between Dunkirk and De Panne. - Genre: Fiction - Length: 20 pages
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6 Excellent Free Sites to Practise Reading Comprehension It’s been too long since I’ve written about improving reading skills. Last time I posted about sites to help you practise reading comprehension was in May last year. Way too long. The truth is that doing reading comprehension activities in class takes time, especially if we are talking about long texts with an amount of difficulty, and very often this is one of the tasks we give students as homework. On the other hand, I am one of those teachers who think reading aloud in class is a good exercise. In my opinion, These are some of the sites I’ve been recommending my students to further practise reading comprehension.They are all completely free. 1. I teach different levels, and what I like most about Newsela is that you can give the same news article to all your classes no matter the level. The site also offers a multiple choice exercise to test your comprehension of the article. Although you have to sign up, the site is free. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Hope you find these sites useful!
Owl Eyes Offers a Good Way to Guide Students Through Classic Literature Owl Eyes is a relatively new tool that provides teachers with a good way to provide students with guidance while they are reading classic literature. Owl Eyes provides teachers with tools to insert annotations and questions into classic literature. Students can see the annotations and questions that their teachers add to the digital text. The short videos embedded below will help you get started with Owl Eyes. Applications for Education Owl Eyes could be a good tool for guiding students through some difficult classic literature. I couldn't find an option to upload my own texts on Owl Eyes.
Europe by bike – in 1933 Evening spent in Ostend has cheered me up completely. We have found most aristocratic digs with lift which only charges 25 francs for b & b – a marked contrast to a café on the Promenade, where they rushed [charged] us 8d for a ham sandwich! Ostend (Photo: Getty) August 2 Spending the night at a funny café/restaurant in Waterloo – only two doors up from where Wellington lodged the night before battle! The woman who runs the place is a scream – v. hearty and smells of drink. I’ve never seen such flat roads as in Belgium. August 3 Have settled in Cologne. The journey was eventful. Hilter attends a rally just days before Marion and her father arrived in the country (Photo: Getty) August 4 We have really begun to see Germany today. We went several miles this afternoon with a most interesting individual: a school kid of 16, who was going on a six-week biking expedition with the sum of 20 marks (£1). Got kicked out of Cologne Cathedral this morning because I had shorts on. August 5 August 6 August 7