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ESL Reading Activities - Interactive Games Every ESL textbook will have reading comprehension lessons. Take any reading lesson and here are 4 reading activities and how to make reading more interactive, fun, and interesting for your international students. Even a reading lesson can become an interactive game. Let's get them moving and out of their seats. 1. Students get into groups of three. Writer is given a list of reading comprehension questions at the desk. Writer asks the runner the first question. Students continue to do this until all questions are answered. As a class, go over answers or any questions about the reading. 2. Separate students in half. Other half of the students are given questions and they can work together to predict what the reading will be about and what they think the answers will be. Pair students who read with the students who have the questions. This reading activity is for high-intermediate to advanced students. Reading Race Reading Scavenger Hunt Post paragraphs of a reading around the classroom.
Connected - Teachers' Notes You are here:Introduction Connected is a series designed to show mathematics, science, and technology in the context of students’ everyday lives. The articles are intended to stimulate discussion and to provide starting points for further investigations by individuals, groups, or a whole class. A shared or guided reading approach to using these texts will support students in understanding the concepts and technical vocabulary. Connected 1 is designed to appeal to year 3–4 students who are working at levels 1–2.Connected 2 is designed to appeal to year 4–6 students who are working at levels 1–3.Connected 3 is designed to appeal to year 5–8 students who are working at levels 2–4. This site provides Teachers’ Notes for the Connected series. PDF files of Teachers’ Notes for issues of Connected published prior to 2008 are provided on this website. Connected and the key competencies The relationship between the learning areas of science and technology and the key competencies Thinking Managing self
Starfall's Learn to Read with phonics Brain Movies: When Readers Can Picture It, They Understand It Editor's note: This post is co-authored by Marcus Conyers who, with Donna Wilson, is co-developer of the M.S. and Ed.S. Brain-Based Teaching degree programs at Nova Southeastern University. They have written several books, including Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice. The images that form in your mind as you read -- we call them "brain movies" -- can be more exciting and memorable than a Hollywood film. More to the point for teachers, guiding your students to visualize as they read is an engaging and enjoyable way to boost comprehension and retention. Learning to create brain movies can help students make sense of complex nonfiction subject matter and "see" the characters, setting, and action in stories. From Text to Brain Movies Visualizing while reading is a strategy that should be explicitly taught. Examples of Brain Movies in Action Share Brain Movies to Extend the Learning Let Students Choose Their Own Material
DOGO News - Kids news articles! Kids current events; plus kids news on science, sports, and more! untitled Wonderopolis | Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease | Wonderopolis Melulater: Modelling Books - how I use these to plan, teach and assess in my class Modelling Books were not around when I began my training to become a teacher. I didn't know anything about them really until 2005 when my school began their journey with the Numeracy Project. We had two facilitators come into our school to guide and support us in taking on the Numeracy Project, and part of that was demonstrating how to set up our modelling books and use them to aid us to teach a group of students. I credit Reshma (currently at Hautapu School) as being the Numeracy Project advisor who really started my journey with modelling books and my love affair with them. Everyone makes these sorts of books their own to suit their teaching style and the children they work with. I prefer to use the Warwick Cuttings Book scrapbook. I keep the modelling books in a storage cube beside where I take my groups. Reading: I prefer to plan directly into my modelling book. For reading I will plan heaps in my modelling book that may take us two weeks to get through all at once. Writing:
The Best Children’s Books of 2014 by Maria Popova Intelligent and imaginative tales of love, loneliness, loyalty, loss, friendship, and everything in between. “I don’t write for children,” Maurice Sendak scoffed in his final interview. “I write — and somebody says, ‘That’s for children!’” “It is an error,” wrote J.R.R. Tolkien seven decades earlier in his superb meditation on fantasy and why there’s no such thing as writing for children, “to think of children as a special kind of creature, almost a different race, rather than as normal, if immature, members of a particular family, and of the human family at large.” This is certainly the case with the most intelligent and imaginative “children’s” and picture-books published this year. Once in a long while, a children’s book comes by that is so gorgeous in sight and spirit, so timelessly and agelessly enchanting, that it takes my breath away. As an endless winter descends upon Lion and Bird, they share a world of warmth and playful fellowship. “Yes,” says Lion.
Reciprocal Teaching Before Reciprocal Teaching can be used successfully by your students, they need to have been taught and had time to practice the four strategies that are used in reciprocal teaching (summarizing, questioning, predicting, clarifying). One way to get students prepared to use reciprocal teaching: (from Donna Dyer of the North West Regional Education Service Agency in North Carolina) Put students in groups of four. Distribute one note card to each member of the group identifying each person's unique role: Summarizer Questioner Clarifier Predictor Have students read a few paragraphs of the assigned text selection. For more information, see the article Reciprocal Teaching for the Primary Grades: "We Can Do It, Too!". Download blank templates Here's a bookmark (360K PDF) for students to use that prompts them about each of the four strategies used in reciprocal teaching.