Some Good Writing Apps for Middle School Students
Below is a collection of some good iPad apps to use with your middle school students. These are apps to help students enhance their writing skills and improve their grasp of language. Some of the things they can do with these apps include: access tons of creative writing prompts, use pre-made story templates to organize and plan stories, use Story Builder to improve paragraph formation and integration of ideas, create ‘found poetry’ by selecting from word banks and existing popular works… and many more. Links to the apps are under the visual. 1- Shake-a-Phrase ‘Shake-a-Phrase is a fun language app for creative writing prompts, vocabulary, and parts of speech practice.
How to Write a Formal Letter in English
In this lesson, we will learn how to write a formal letter. A formal letter is a letter that is written in the formal language with a specific format for business or official purpose. With the advent of email, it is becoming less and less common to write letters, but the few letters that you will write will probably be very important ones, such as covering letters for job applications, covering letters for questionnaires or surveys which are part of your research, or letters of complaint to your bank manager.
40 Intriguing Photos to Make Students Think
Update, Oct. 4, 2020: We have published a sequel to this post with 40 more intriguing photographs. After combing through four years of images from our popular What’s Going On in This Picture? feature, we selected 40 photographs to highlight in this slide show. Many of these are our most commented-on images — some attracting nearly a thousand student comments.
Check Out These Clever LEGO Adaptations of Famous Works
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five paragraph essay – The Canswedian English Teacher
In a previous blog post I wrote about the three paragraph essay on a personal Hero we do in Grade 8. I encourage you all to look at Terry Fox – he is BOUND to make an impact. There is a movie as well on him.
Accents and why they developed
This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky!
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Hero Subunit 3: Three Paragraph Essay on a Personal Hero
Subunit 3: Three paragraph essay on a personal hero. Ask the students to think about their personal hero, or someone they look up to. It could be a family member, singer, someone from history, whoever…It is mindblowing how many will say they don’t know. If they don’t have one – they can research. I showed a few people The White Helmets from Syria for example. One girl thought about her grandmother who was battling cancer.
English Dictation - Learn English Free
Improve your listening skills, writing skills, reading skills, spelling and punctuation! You will need a set of headphones, somewhere quiet, a pencil and a sheet of paper. The sound files are large, so be patient. Instructions:- Choose your level Elementary or Intermediate.
Why and How to Use YouTube Video Essays in Your Classroom
Like many of you, I've been thinking a lot lately about how we can better prepare students to be thoughtful, responsible, and critical consumers and creators. While I don't have all the answers, I've come to one conclusion: Media-literacy education must deal with YouTube. Ninety-one percent of teens use YouTube.
Teach English with Puzzles & Word Games
Can you teach English in an EFL class with logic puzzles and word games? Sure. Every English class needs a little variety to keep things interesting and people motivated.
The Seven Best Silent Short Films for Language Teaching - Kieran Donaghy
As many short films are artistic, they have limited appeal in the commercial marketplace and are funded from diverse sources. To make them easier to sell worldwide, they often contain little or no dialogue, which makes comprehension much easier. As a result, they offer intensely ‘filmic’ experiences, using images and movement, sequence and duration, sound and music to tell their stories. These silent films are perfect for the language classroom as they can be used with any level – the teacher just needs to adapt the difficulty of the task to match the level of the students. Here are the seven short films which I have found work best in the language classroom. Your Secret
Active Listening: Using Times Videos, Podcasts and Articles to Practice a Key Skill
Listening is a skill that we’re in danger of losing in a world of digital distraction and information overload, writes Seth S. Horowitz in “The Science and Art of Listening.” He continues:
The Questioning Toolkit - Revised
The first version of the Questioning Toolkit was published in November of 1997. Since then there has been substantial revision of its major question types and how they may function as an interwoven system. This article takes the model quite a few steps further, explaining more about each type of question and how it might support the overall investigative process in combination with the other types. photo ©istockphoto.com Section One - Orchestration
