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Maggie Verster

Class Collection of Book Reviews using collaborative google spreadsheets - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 17 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 17 Jul 09
     
    As part of a language arts or reading program, students read novels throughout the school year. Some of the novels are assigned, read, and discussed "all class." Others are chosen by the students individually, and they keep individual reading lists. Students may be required to read a certain number per marking period, per school year, and over the summer. Some may be classics; other trade novels, but all contribute to the overall reading and comprehension abilities of the students. This unit can be done as a culminating activity for the school year. Students are asked to choose their two favorite novels from the ones they have read. They write reviews and post them online for students in their own school, in other schools, across the United States, and in other countries to read. The student reviews not only help student readers clarify their own understanding of literature, they also provide a "student-to-student" resource. Other students can choose novels based on opinions of their peers. The students review the novels, write descriptions that will appeal to other readers, and indicate the level of reading difficulty. They do this to help others choose novels suitable for their reading levels.
Martin Burrett

The Impacts of Daily Reading on Academic Achievement by @MrsHollyEnglish - 2 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 07 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 07 Feb 18
     
    "I have always believed that reading has a significant impact on our understanding and appreciation of the world. As both a life-long passionate reader and an experienced English Language Arts teacher, I have witnessed first-hand the impact that reading has on the ability of learners in terms of comprehension, grammar, empathy, confidence, vocabulary and expression. This has however, only ever been phenomenological through informal observations in the classroom, and in an effort to incorporate sustained silent reading (SSR) as a regular, valid and essential practice, I have embarked upon this research in order to determine the impacts that daily reading has on middle-school learners, not only in terms of English Language Arts, but also across the curriculum."
Maggie Verster

Teaching Reading Comprehension - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 27 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 27 Mar 09
     
    These reproducible items for school and classroom use are to be used in conjunction with Teaching Reading Comprehension.
Ines Perez Morante

Story telling - 15 views

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  • Ines Perez Morante on 11 Feb 13
     
    Short stories and fairy tales to motivate our students to read and make reading more comprehensible for them.
Carilyn Bergamini

ReadingQuest | Reading Strategies for Social Studies - 0 views

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  • Carilyn Bergamini on 06 Aug 09
     
    instructions and blackline masters for reading comprehension strategies. useful across disciplines
M Jesús García San Martín

Stop and Learn English: The making of the memory - 1 views

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shared by M Jesús García San Martín on 30 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • M Jesús García San Martín on 30 Apr 12
     
    Reading comprehension task for B2 ESL students
M Jesús García San Martín

Stop and Learn English: Cancer 'Caused By Obesity And Bad Diet' - 0 views

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  • M Jesús García San Martín on 12 Jan 12
     
    Reading comprehension assignment for B2 ESL learners.
Andrew Graff

TPR Foreign Language Instruction and Dyslexia - 2 views

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shared by Andrew Graff on 16 Jul 11 - Cached
  • For language teachers, this accepted presumption of incapacity is a huge hurdle, because it keeps many children and adults from even dipping a toe into the language pool!
  • TPR was and is a wonderful way to turn that presumption on its head and show the learner that, not only can we learn, but under the right circumstances, it's fun!
  • When we are infants our exposure to language is virtually inseparable from physical activities. People talk to us while tickling us, feeding us, changing our diapers... We are immersed in a language we don't speak, in an environment that we explore with every part of our body. Our parents and caregivers literally walk and talk us through activities - for example, we learn lots of vocabulary while someone stands behind us at the bathroom sink, soaping our hands until they're slippery, holding them under warm water, rubbing or scrubbing, all the while talking about what we're doing and what it feels like. In this way, movement and feeling are intimately tied to the process of internalizing the language.
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  • Classes are active - you are not in your seat all period. The focus for the first weeks is on listening and moving in response to what the teacher says.
  • There is heavy emphasis on listening comprehension, because the larger your listening comprehension vocabulary is, the larger your speaking vocabulary will become.
  • Lots of language is learned in happy circumstances, especially while you're having fun.
  • In a TPR class, grammar and syntax are not taught directly. Rather, the teacher designs activities that expose the student to language in context, especially in the context of some kind of movement.
  • I'm asked with some regularity about appropriate foreign language instruction for students with a dyslexic learning or thinking style. I'm quick to recommend finding a school or program that includes - or even better - relies on TPR as its principal instructional strategy.
  • Typically, the initial TPR lessons are commands involving the whole body - stand up, sit down, turn around, walk, stop.
  • Fairly soon, the teacher quietly stops demonstrating, and the students realize that they somehow just know what to do in response to the words.
  • You're also encouraged to trust your body, because sometimes it knows what to do before your brain does!
  • As class proceeds, nouns, adverbs, prepositions are added until before you know it, students are performing commands like, 'Stand up, walk to the door, open it, stick your tongue out, close the door, turn around, hop to Jessica's desk, kiss your right knee four times, and lie down on Jessica's desk."
  • It's just that the instruction is designed to facilitate language acquisition, not learning a language through analysis, memorization and application of rules.
  • But consider your native language: you did not need to learn the grammar and syntax of your native language in order to learn to speak it. You learned those structures, unconsciously as you learned to speak.
  • The first is that in a TPR classroom, the focus is not on analysis of linguistic structures, but on internalizing those structures for unconscious use.
  • When we use TPR strategies to teach, our goal is truly to be able to understand, speak, read and write the language, not "about" the language.
  • I think this creativity, the synthetic rather than analytic experience, the low stress, and generally accepting environment engineered by the teacher, are a large part of the reason so many students, including students with learning challenges, find TPR classes so effective and enjoyable.
  • Within these real experiences, students are free to generate all kinds of expressions using the language they're studying, and to lead instruction in unique directions.
M Jesús García San Martín

Stop and Learn English: Bag Man - 1 views

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  • M Jesús García San Martín on 16 Apr 12
     
    Reading task for B2 ESL learners.
M Jesús García San Martín

Stop and Learn English: Simon Collings. Do You Speak English? - 1 views

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    Read and fill in the gaps. C1 ESL learners.
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