Short Stories and Classic Literature

Best Short Stories for Middle Schoolers, As Chosen by Teachers It can be a challenge to get middle schoolers interested in reading. The thought of tackling a thick novel can be overwhelming, especially during distance learning. Short stories are always a great choice. Download Asterix adventures in PDF (English) Pages Monday, 2 January 2017 Download Asterix adventures in PDF (English) Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension 1. Monitoring comprehension Students who are good at monitoring their comprehension know when they understand what they read and when they do not. They have strategies to "fix" problems in their understanding as the problems arise.

20 Terrifying Two-Sentence Horror Stories. I Didn't Think It Was Possible Until #5... When The Hair On My Neck Stood Up March 5, 2014 Ever since I was a little kid I've loved sharing ghost stories around a campfire which is probably why I love watching horror movies. And every single time I finish watching one, well, a good one... FREE READABILITY FORMULAS TOOLS : FREE READABILITY TESTS FOR YOUR TEXT Our Automatic Readability Checker takes a sample of your writing and calculates the number of sentences, words, syllables, and characters in your sample. Our program takes the output of these numbers and plugs them into seven popular readability formulas. These readability formulas (see below) will let you know the reading level and grade level of your text and help you determine if your audience can read your writing. (Note: We also have separate readability tools to calculate grade levels using the Fry Graph, Raygor Estimate Graph, Spache Formula, and New Dale-Chall Formula, located here: Free Readability Calculators and Text Tools). Directions: Paste in a sample of text and click "CHECK TEXT READABILITY."

"Death by Scrabble" "Death by Scrabble" by Charlie Fish Lesson Plan Text of the story. "Death by Scrabble" Text of the story. Adobe Reader required. "Death by Scrabble" Text of the story and 5 learning activities with emphasis on vocabulary and analysis. "Death by Scrabble" by Charlie Fish Lesson Plan This lesson plan focuses on a theme of cheating explored through the short story "Death by Scrabble," a brief creative writing activity, and a YouTube video (5:22) on cheating in high school. ELF in my car! The lingua franca discussion rumbles on I was driving back from orchestra rehearsal on Monday – well no, driving back from the pub which we go to after orchestra rehearsal – when the radio station I listen to all the time, BBC Radio 4, started broadcasting a programme called ‘Word of Mouth’. (In parenthesis: Radio 4 is a national radio station which broadcasts news, drama, comedy, factual programming, magazine programmes etc) Anyway, the announcer told us that the programme would be about ELF (English as a Lingua Franca - I think you may be able to listen from outside the UK) and suddenly I found myself listening, on national radio, to people I know such as Jennifer Jenkins, Andy Kirkpatrick, Val Hennessy from IH (International House) Bristol, Michael Swan etc. Of course anyone in the UK is used to David Crystal popping up on the radio , but this was more surprising! Two worlds colliding… As with all ‘public’ programmes (i.e. not made specifically for linguists or language teachers etc) it was fairly general.

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. To speak another language isn't just cultured, it's a blow against stupidity In 2004, the Labour government removed modern languages from the "core curriculum". That must be "core" as in "apple core". For it meant the study of a foreign language is no longer compulsory at schools past age 14. Theoretically, primary schools are supposed to introduce languages instead, but that's like the road sign with the big black arrow pointing one way and the skinny little red arrow going the other. A classic "mixed message", with a brute practical impact and a feeble sign of wouldn't-it-be-nice idealism-on-the-cheap.