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Clean and simple infographic on reading comprehension strategies. Could be good to post in your classrooms or print out for students.

For those of you who teach university writing course, an interesting devil's advocate essay against writing essays.

adaptable survey of good language learner characteristics. Could be used in intermediate to advanced classes. Nice way to draw attention to good study habits.

This is a vocabulary learning platform with phonics. It has many, many vocabulary categories to choose for lower level vocabulary (classroom instructions/ parts of the body) to more advanced vocabulary (character traits, natural disasters, solve the crime). It has matching quizzes for each category. Definitely good for lower levels 1-4.

This is great! It has reading, writing, conversation starts and grammar exercises. For example, there are dialogues with questions, jokes and riddles for reading, and learning about topic sentences for writing. All of these come with follow up worksheets that you can often turn into nice pdfs. All sorts of categories are available for you to choose from.

Allows you to take a video, crop it to just the sections you need, and then record a voice over if you'd like, or to embed questions at various points during the video. Looks very promising!

Speaking and listening teachers -- this is definitely a site worth taking a look at. It will work with all the computers in the computer lab (I confirmed the new headsets worked by using it) AND all computers have headsets with mics. There are LOTS of speaking activities you can do with this!

I have done this with some success at level 1, but it could really work better for a higher level. For example, you could ask the students via the Vocaroo recording to tell you about their weekend and see how they do with the past tense. Level 2 and up is best. Hi- I was actually able to record my voice from my home computer which is not the newest. It actually scared me because I yelled "Hello Mate"! How would one make the link and email your recording to them and vice versa?

Excellent TED talk about the power of relationships in teaching. Talks about public schools, but relevant for all teachers at all levels of education. My favorite part? "While you won't like all of them (your students), the key is, they can never, ever know it." How powerful is that in forging relationship?

A collection of links for various educational videos -- there might be some of interest for your classes, especially afternoon classes.

A really nice listening site with animated, captioned true stories. For native speakers, but the animation and the captions help enormously with understanding the pictures.

Sundays at Roccos was a moving story for a cartoon about an immigrant family from Italy that makes it in the US only to (you have to see it for the rest). I think this is a high Level 3 and up listening material that will generate a lot of discussion from interesting and animated stories

For native speakers but accessible to our students even at the lower levels. Fun! And a good review of the common spelling issues (their/they're/there , you're/your, etc.)

A large variety of short videos to provoke discussion or debate on controversial topics. Good resources for Levels 5 & 6. Take a look! "How Islam Began -- in Under 10 Minutes" could be a interesting view.

Another good site for self study and possible supplemental class use, especially for Level 1 & 2.

Beginning self-guided English lessons. Free to students. Quite a lot of components. Good for at home / computer lab practice for Level 1 & Level 2 students.

Beginning self-guided English lessons. Free to students. Quite a lot of components. Good for at home / computer lab practice for Level 1 & Level 2 students.

At an International Level: Films For Action uses the power of film to raise awareness of important social, environmental, and media-related issues not covered by the mainstream news. Our goal is to provide citizens with the information and perspectives essential to creating a more just, sustainable, and democratic society. Our website has cataloged over 1500 of the best films and videos that can be watched free online.

At an International Level: Films For Action uses the power of film to raise awareness of important social, environmental, and media-related issues not covered by the mainstream news. Our goal is to provide citizens with the information and perspectives essential to creating a more just, sustainable, and democratic society. Our website has cataloged over 1500 of the best films and videos that can be watched free online.

Useful reminder infographic from the wonderful Mia MacMeekin (check out her website for continual inspiration) about different ways of continuing reflective practice

Many, many Halloween resources for those of you who might be teaching about it.

Many, many Halloween resources for those of you who might be teaching about it.

This is an interesting website, dedicated to providing news articles to teachers / students at various reading levels. The lowest reading level I could do was "4", which is probably good for Level 3 with support. You do have to register, but it's free to join. Once you set up a class (I did "test class", grade 3), you'll be directed to articles at that reading level. Good way to add some extra non-fiction reading to your classes, especially if you're looking for timely, easier-to-access reading than found in your textbooks.

An interesting blog article addressing some students' reluctance to read and some ways to work through it. Written for native speakers, but attitudes toward reading often transfer from L1 to L2