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PARCC definition of "college ready"

This is a fab literacy site where you can find interesting and rare English words. Browse for words to make children's work stand out from the crowd and play 'guess the meaning' with your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A pedagogical approach to technology in language teaching

SMILEY - Social Mindedness in Learning Community is project funded within the domain of Lifelong Learning Programme in Europe. The aim of SMILEY is to implement awareness‐raising program in schools realizing the specific course facing the most current social topics. It helps teachers to deal with the social problem issues, such as bullying and to face possible students' violent attitudes through enjoyable online ERPG (Edu Role‐playing Game) developed according the pupils' social awareness. The title of this friendly educational game is "Your Town" and short DEMO you can easily access through the following link http://smileyschool.eu/demo/ Game is for free and is already available in English, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish language. Currently there are already 80 schools across the EU involved in this project and we have got very positive feedbacks both from children and teachers.

SMILEY - Social Mindedness in Learning Community implements awareness‐raising program in schools realizing the specific course facing the most current social topics. It helps teachers to deal with the social problem issues, such as bullying and to face possible students' violent attitudes through enjoyable online ERPG (Edu Role‐playing Game) developed according the pupils' social awareness. The title of this friendly educational game is "Your Town" and short DEMO you can easily access through the following link http://smileyschool.eu/demo/ Game is for free and is already available in English, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish language. Currently there are already 80 schools across the EU involved in this project and we have got very positive feedbacks both from children and teachers.

Help for all the English grammar teachers, outside reinforcement!

These digital tools show promise to support word learning, review, and play with language. They are grouped them into four categories: Reference Tools, Word Clouds, Games and Review, Word Walls and Virtual Field Trips.

Vocabla is a service for learning English, Spanish, and Polish vocabulary. The service can be used online or with the free iPhone and Android apps. The concept behind Vocabla is similar to a lot of other language learning applications. In Vocabla you can create lists of words and phrases that you want to learn. Alternatively, you can select a list that was made by someone else and shared to the Vocabla library. You can study each list in a flashcard style until you feel like you're ready to take a practice quiz.

VocabularySpellingCity provides the following sets of correlations to standards: U.S. Standards by State Common Core Standards for each States' Implementation Australian Standards by State Canadian Standards by Province English National Curriculum Standards

This is an iPad app designed for young learners to tell stories through drawings, text and audio recording. There is is some clipart to draw into your story. There are a number of template stories, but you can also start from a blank book. Find it on the App store at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/scribble-my-story-fingerprint/id582092430 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

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This is a useful news site which provides the same news story written at three different levels of English, making it a wonderful tool for ESL classes and differentiating for different age groups. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English+As+An+Additional+Language

"South Korea elects first female president"

One of the greatest philosophers of Islam in modern times is Sir Mohammed Iqbal (1877-1938), also called the 'Poet of the East' (Shayar-e-Mashriq). He is the national poet of Pakistan as well as the composer of one of India's most popular patriotic songs (Tarana-e-Hind i.e. The Song of India). His poems, in Urdu and Persian, reflect his philosophy of Islam and his idea of 'the self' (Khudi). Two of his greatest works are 'Shikwa' (The Remonstration) and 'Jawab-e-Shikwa' (The Response). Another great work is 'Tere Ishq Ki Inteha' (The Limits of Your Love). These three poems are addressed to God. The third is an excellent work of poetry in Urdu which captures beautifully the Islamic conception of Divine Love (Ishq). No translation in English, and perhaps any other language, can capture the beauty and depth of this poem and this is but a poor attempt to explain the ten lines of the poem here to the best extent my limited understanding of Iqbal's Urdu poetry allows. The poet writes, "The limits of your Love is what I desire; Look at my naivete, to what I aspire;". What the poet implies here is that Ishq i.e. Love for God has no limits. It can be infinite. Yet, he wants to achieve the unachievable - crossing the limits of Ishq whereas Ishq has no limits. After all, can there be something greater than what is infinite? Thus, so naive and full of love is he that he wants to have more of this love.