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ABC Fast Phonics with cartoons and sound. Fun for kids or adults.

ABC Fast Phonics with cartoons and sound. Fun for kids or adults.

BBC Learning English | Pronunciation Tips Theme Poems In this online tool, elementary students can write poems based on shapes from five different categories: Nature, School, Sports, Celebrations, and Shapes. Within these categories, 32 different shapes are included. By selecting a shape, students are learning how to focus their writing on a particular topic or theme. For ideas of how to use this tool outside the classroom, see Theme Poems in the Parent & Afterschool Resources section. Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Dynamite Diamante Poetry Introduce gerunds and review nouns, adjectives, and verbs through engaging read-alouds; then apply these concepts through collaborative word-sorting and poetry-writing activities. Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing Poetry Acrostic Poems This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Diamante Poems This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems. Grades K – 5 | Mobile App | Writing Poetry Theme Poems Today is World Poetry Day.

Learning Tools - Language Pronunciation Tool The authored component is a digitally recorded question-and-answer set. The aim of this advanced tool is to ask students particular context questions such as "What time did James arrive home from the airport" for which students will have to answer orally into a microphone i.e. "James arrived home from the airport at 6:30." The student receives the correct answer through his/her headphones (authored by the instructor), which is juxtaposed against the student's answer. This tool offers direct learning enhancement by allowing instructors to create their own oral component in any given language. Students, with this tool, are given the unique opportunity to hear, comprehend and speak their chosen language at their own leisure. Choose any language and create a question-answer database Voice recording and playback for pronunciation and comprehension Excellent for tonal language practice such as Mandarin or Cantonese Excellent for integrating an oral component into a language syllabus

Reading Games Rearrange the letters to make a word. Use the clue below to help to reveal the mystery word. Rearrange the letters to make a word. Correctly spell the Back To School words below each picture. Match the words to the pictures. Correctly spell the Color words below each picture. It's Pacman with a twist. Read each clue. Practice your typing skills Winter style! It's color by Alphabet! Complete the crossword puzzle by typing the name of picture that appears by each row or column. Correctly spell the Autumn words below each picture. It's Pacman with a twist. It's color by Alphabet! How many words can you find in two minutes? Connect dots to make each letter of the alphabet from A To Z. It's color by Alphabet! Correctly spell the Winter words below each picture. Match the words to the pictures. Practice your typing skills Christmas style! Practice your typing skills Zombie style! Eat the letters in the correct order to spell each word. Look at the picture very carefully and find the hidden letters.

Svenska För Invandrare kurs C och D: Substantiv Substantiv är den största ordklassen.Se en film där jag förklarar mer om substantiv och de olika formerna. Substantiv är saker, människor, djur, namn och känslor.Läs fler exempel på vad substantiv är här! En och ettSubstantiv kan man säga en eller ett framför. Det finns ingen regel för om ett ord är en eller ett. Du måste lära dig det till varje nytt substantiv. De flesta ord är en-ord. Exempel: En kvinna, en flicka, en pojke, en bil, en skola Ungefär 20% av substantiven är ett-ord. Exempel:Ett hus, ett bord, ett barn, ett arbete, ett rum Singular och pluralSubstantiv heter olika om de är en eller flera. Jag känner en flicka. Jag känner två flickor. Singular: en eller ett. Plural: 2 eller fler. Bestämd och obestämd form När du inte pratar om något speciellt: Obestämd form:Kan du ge mig en bok? Jag vill hyra en lägenhet. När du menar något speciellt:Bestämd form: Kan du ge mig boken? Jag vill hyra lägenheten. Första gången du pratar om något: Obestämd form.Jag har läst en bok. Boken handlade om kärlek.

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Helping students with connected speech There is a huge difference between what our students see printed on a page and what we actually say in everyday speech. In a recording of a TESOL Spain Presentation on Youtube (well worth watching), Mark Hancock makes the following joke: Patient: Doctor, Doctor, I’ve got two theik, a near rake, sore rise, bruise darms a stummer cake and I far tall the time. Doctor: I see, perhaps you’d like to way tin the corridor? (Try reading it aloud) The joke [apologies for the vulgarity ;) ] showcases a good number of examples of features of connected speech. Features of connected speech As a brief overview, there is a strong tendency in English to simplify and link words together in the stream of speech, in order to help the language flow rhythmically. Assimilation This is when the sound at the end of one word changes to make it easier to say the next word. ‘ten boys’ sounds like ‘ tem boys’ (the /n/ sound changes to the bilabial /m/ to make it easier to transition to the also bilabial /b/) Catenation

MES: Games, Free Printables MES English Certificate Templates Printable Cards Phonics Worksheets Worksheet Makers ESL Listening End User License Agreement: You are free to download any resource from this site as an end user and MES-English.com grants you an End User License with the following restrictions: You may not redistribute, copy, modify, transfer, transmit, repackage, charge for or sell any of the materials from this site. You may use photocopies or printouts for distribution to your students. Copyright © 2005 - 2023 MES English | restrictions | privacy | about | contact Alpozo's Phonetic Blog: PURE AND SIMPLE Listen to Pure by Liverpool band, The Lightning Seeds, to help you identify some vowel and diphthong sounds /ɑː/ /e/ /ɪː/ /ɪ/ /əʊ/ /aɪ/ and /uː/ and also to celebrate the birth of a new pure and growing webpage Habla Idiomas EOI intended to gather and share information and material for teachers and students at the State School of Languages in Spain, EOIs (Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas). As you listen to the song, fill in the gaps by clicking on the clue buttons which help you identify the vowel or diphthong sounds the missing words contain.

77 Educational Games and Game Builders I'm often asked if I know of any games for subject "x," "y," or "z" for a particular grade level or age group. My answer is usually yes, but I need to search my archives. Therefore, I've gone through my archives and dug up many of games that I've mentioned over the last four years that are still active online. Consider this my humongous list of educational games. 1. 2.Spin and Spell has been featured on a number of blogs over the last year. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. the World Food Programme's website offers students a large selection of educational online games and activities. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56.

Phonemic Activities for the Preschool or Elementary Classroom This article features activities designed to stimulate the development of phonemic awareness in preschool and elementary school children. The activities originally appeared in the book Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum. Listening to sequences of sounds From chapter 3: Listening games Objective To develop the memory and attentional abilities for thinking about sequences of sounds and the language for discussing them. Materials needed Objects that make interesting, distinctive sounds. Activity In this game, the children are challenged first to identify single sounds and then to identify each one of a sequence of sounds. Once the children have caught on to the game, make two noises, one after the other. After the children have become quite good with pairs of noises, produce a series of more than two for them to identify and report in sequence. Variations With the children's eyes closed, make a series of sounds. Nonsense Book of familiar stories or poems Clapping names

free activities to directly develop phonemic awareness skills in children and students for parents and teachers Activities to Directly Develop Phonemic Awareness Skills Free Activities for Teachers and Parents Phonemic Awareness: Phonemic awareness, the ability to hear, distinguish, recognize and manipulate sounds within words, is critical to reading success. We know that phonemic awareness training has a significant positive effect on reading and spelling. We can directly teach children how to hear, recognize and manipulate sounds within words to intentionally develop the phonemic awareness skills necessary for proficient reading. Note: Throughout this article, sounds are indicated between slashes /_/. *Note:If you suspect a child has any hearing difficulty, it is critical to get them evaluated by a professional. Phonemic Awareness Instruction/Activities: You can help your child or student develop phonemic awareness with the following simple activities. General Information on PA Instruction: Develop phonemic awareness skills systematically. sounds: (easierà more difficult) · Always demonstrate!

This site features an audio of the word sounds, so is great for students who need a little more reinforcement or means to practice independently but don't quite have the phoneme/grapheme concept down just yet. It's very easy to use and goes from just letters all the way to words. by mkknowles Jul 17

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