background preloader

Understand what you read

Understand what you read
More reading. Smarter teaching. Rewordify.com helps you read more, understand difficult English faster, and learn words in new ways. Just paste in difficult English (or enter a web page URL) and click the yellow button. You'll see an easier version, for fast understanding now. You'll learn what the hard words and phrases mean with our Smart Highlighting.

http://rewordify.com/

Related:  EnglishDigitala verktyg för lärande och digital kompetensReady ReferenceReadTools

Check Out These Clever LEGO Adaptations of Famous Works The Literacy Site By The Literacy Site LIT_Blog_DTOP_BelowTitle_336x280 It is not surprising that a number of productions have adapted Shakespeare to suit modern times, but never has one featured actors made of plastic bricks and an iPhone. Dynamic PE ASAP In-Home Lesson Plans – Gopher PE Blog DynamicPEASAP.com is an excellent resource for free lesson plans that are great for in-home learning. These plans are credible, research-backed and have been proven successful with students. Some of these activities must be performed outside. Thomasville, NC Free Public Records Search the City of Thomasville, public records using best found research sources online. This City zip code is 27360 with a total population of 26,757. Look up recorded information of Thomasville, including demographics and local economy.

Reading Comprehension Worksheets "Your reading comprehension materials are the best I've found on the web. They are so thorough and comprehensive! My students and I have learned a lot from them. Thanks so much!" Easy-to-use Online Vocabulary Games Generator The following list is yet another excellent resources for ESL/EFL teachers that will surely increase student engagement in the class. I am talking about easy-to-use, no-BS online vocabulary games generator where teachers can easily create vocabulary games for review or warm up activities. I chose these websites because they focus only on one or two games thus they are specialized, very user-friendly and so convenient to use that you will be done making your games in seconds!

@mrocallaghan_edu image via @gapingvoid Challenge (includes differentiation) Explanation Modelling 8 YouTube Tools to Help Learn English It always amazes me that despite being the world’s largest video library, YouTube is still blocked or banned in many educational institutions. As a resource for learning about almost anything, but particularly for language learning it is an incredibly valuable tool and a tool that many third party companies have started to build on and exploit to make its use easier and more engaging. Below are just a few of the many tools that can help educators exploit the learning potential of YouTube with a particular focus on English language learning. I hope you can enjoy these tools and if you do work in an institution where YouTube is still blocked perhaps you can use this article to help persuade the people responsible that the benefits of making the resource available far outweigh the manageable risks that it can create. 1.

Education Directory The North Carolina Education Directory is prepared and distributed annually by the Department of Public Instruction’s Division of Communication and Information Services as a service to educators and others interested in public education. The directory provides information on the State Board of Education, the Department of Public Instruction, educational associations and commissions, and individual school systems and charter schools. I appreciate the valuable assistance from school superintendents and others who supplied the information for the directory, and I hope it will be helpful to you. June St. 11 Alternatives to "Round Robin" (and "Popcorn") Reading Round Robin Reading (RRR) has been a classroom staple for over 200 years and an activity that over half of K-8 teachers report using in one of its many forms, such as Popcorn Reading. RRR's popularity endures, despite overwhelming criticism that the practice is ineffective for its stated purpose: enhancing fluency, word decoding, and comprehension. Cecile Somme echoes that perspective in Popcorn Reading: The Need to Encourage Reflective Practice: "Popcorn reading is one of the sure-fire ways to get kids who are already hesitant about reading to really hate reading."

Tim van de Vall - Comics & Printables for Kids Make your own board game using a blank board game template! On this page you’ll find 6 unique board game templates in black and white and color. Throughout elementary, middle, and high school, students sometimes have to make their own board games as part of a Language Arts or Social Studies assignment. Drawing a game board by hand can be tricky, and for that reason I’ve created this set of blank game boards for kids, students and teachers to print. 50 Writing Prompts for All Grade Levels The collection of prompts below asks young writers to think through real or imagined events, their emotions, and a few wacky scenarios. Try out the ones you think will resonate most with your students. As with all prompts, inform students that their answers should be rated G and that disclosing dangerous or illegal things they’re involved in will obligate you to file a report with the administration or school counselors.

Distance learning solutions The list of educational applications, platforms and resources below aim to help parents, teachers, schools and school administrators facilitate student learning and provide social care and interaction during periods of school closure. Most of the solutions curated are free and many cater to multiple languages. While these solutions do not carry UNESCO’s explicit endorsement, they tend to have a wide reach, a strong user-base and evidence of impact. 20 Ways to Search the Invisible Web When you access the invisible/deep web, you're uncovering information a regular search engine won't find. This is because data on the invisible web isn't made available to software spiders and crawlers that create search engine indexes. Given that the invisible web makes up a huge majority of the content on the web, it's fair to say that you're missing out on quite a lot if you never venture away from popular search engines like Google and Bing.

London Short Fiction: The Fingernail Fairy Continuing our series of short fiction set in, or influenced by London. This week’s story by Tracy Kuhn is one of the finalists in our competition with the British Academy’s Literature Week to find a new modern fairy tale for London. To explore the Literature Week programme and register visit the British Academy’s website. Alana pulled her coat around her and shivered. She really needed a new one; the long, faded velvet frock coat was starting to look shabby. They’d all admired it once, rubbing the plush, velvety fabric between their fingers as she’d twirled around.

This site can be a useful tool to help students learn vocabulary and help with comprehension skills. Students can enter difficult text into a box that will rephrase it into content that is easier for the student to understand. Quizzes and other features are also available to promote student engagement with the material. Different recommendations for using this website: 1. Students can use this website to reword difficult phrases they come across in books and articles that they read. 2. Teachers can assign vocabulary quizzes for students to take as well as the type of vocabulary skill assessed. 3. Teachers can also take advantage of vocabulary and comprehension lessons on this site and use them for their students. 4. Teachers can share documents on this site with their students to read from any location. by htravis4 Oct 28

Related:  Teacher ToolsClassroom resources