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Title: All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day Ideas
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All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day are coming up at the end of this month. Here are some helpful resources:
Here are some ideas for bulletin boards and displays: https://spanishmama.com/dia-de-muertos-bulletin-boards-and-displays/
Julie from Mundo de Pepita shares five songs for Day of the Dead that elementary students should enjoy: https://elmundodepepita.blogspot.com/2018/10/five-songs-for-days-of-dead-for.html
Larry Ferlazzo has a massive, organized collection of online resources about Halloween and Day of the Dead: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/10/05/the-best-websites-for-learning-about-halloween/
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Title: Intermediate Unit about Perú
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Spanish teacher Kara Jacobs has created a unit about Perú for intermediate Spanish learners. Access the unit packet and associated resources at http://www.ceauthres.com/2018/10/intermediate-peru-unit-with-carlos.html
Source: CEAUTHRES
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Title: Advice for Paraprofessionals Working with English Learners
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From https://elementaryenglishlanguagelearners.weebly.com
Valentina Gonzalez writes, "Paraprofessional educators truly serve more than students. They serve the teachers on the campus as well. They have one of the most challenging jobs. If you are a paraprofessional educator reading this article, let me commend you. You do so much for so many people. If are a teacher reading this, thank your paraprofessionals. Give them some extra love. And pass this article along to them so they can grow in their craft.
"The intention of this piece is because as a presenter, teacher trainer and professional development specialist, I recognized that there is little out there written specifically for paraprofessional educators. The need is clear. So this is for you."
Read the full article, which presents six pieces of advice especially for paraprofessionals, at https://elementaryenglishlanguagelearners.weebly.com/blog/supporting-students-and-teachers-as-a-paraprofessional-esl-educator-6-things-you-can-try-now
Source: English Learners
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Title: Field Related: Help for English Academic Writing
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The Field Related website allows users to paste in a text. The program analyzes the text for how academic or conversational it is based on sentence length, and it also uses specific vocabulary in the text to align it with different academic fields. A separate section of the website has targeted resources for a wide variety of specialized academic fields.
Note that the website keeps your text and may use it for further development; read the terms and conditions carefully before deciding if you will use it.
Field Related is available at http://fieldrelated.com/index.php
Read a review of this resource at https://cristinaskybox.blogspot.com/2018/10/field-related-eap-writing.html
Source: Field Related
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Title: Clothing Input Game
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Here's a simple no-prep activity to practice understanding descriptions of what someone is wearing. Students select one student, and the teacher asks questions about what the student is wearing to guess which student was chosen. Some teachers might also have the students ask the question.
Read a full activity description at https://senorachase.com/2018/09/25/a-clothing-input-game/
Source: Señora Chase
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Title: Relay Passing Activities
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From http://pomegranatebeginnings.blogspot.com
Miriam Patrick describes an activity her students did in her Latin III class: as part of a medicine unit, students drew an image depicting a disease. Then, they passed papers to another student who wrote a sentence about the disease. The next student drew three remedies. The next student writes a sentence about the correct remedy. Finally, students label everything that has been drawn.
This sort of activity has many cousins, all related to writing and/or drawing and then passing the paper on to another student to add new material. The blog post finishes with a roundup of links to descriptions of many of these similar activities.
Read the full blog post at http://pomegranatebeginnings.blogspot.com/2018/10/draw-write-and-pass-variations.html
Source: Pomegranate Beginnings
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Title: Micro-Writing for Lessening Writing Anxiety
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Your InterCom editor was lucky enough to attend a 3-hour workshop with Ted Zarrow at last weekend's WAFLT-COFLT Fall Conference. Dr. Zarrow noted that many students struggle with writing anxiety. In this recent EdSurge article, Bryan Christopher describes how he uses micro-writing tasks to get his students expressing themselves more comfortably. Although Mr. Christopher uses these techniques in regular language arts class, they would also be powerful in language classes.
Read the full article at https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-09-30-micro-writing-is-having-a-macro-impact-on-identity-development
Source: EdSurge
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Title: Multiple Intelligences- How can we Make Sure that Every Student Thrives?
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From http://teachinginthetargetlanguage.com
In this article, Laura McClintock Flynn considers how teachers can meet the needs of a variety of learners in the World Language class. She talks about how each student is different in their unique set of skills and strengths, or according to Howard Gardner, different types of intelligences. She explores ways in which teachers can continue to meet the needs of each individual student with a different type of intelligence. Read the full article at http://teachinginthetargetlanguage.com/multiple-intelligences-how-can-we-make-sure-that-every-student-thrives/
Source: Teaching in the Target Language
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Title: Brief: How Can Learner Language Inform Mandarin Immersion Teaching?
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From http://carla.umn.edu/immersion/briefs.html
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition has published a new issue in its series of annual Immersion Research-to-Action Briefs. In this year’s Research-to-Action Brief article, Dr. Tara Fortune and CARLA research assistant Zhongkui Ju discuss key findings from a multi-year research project examining the oral proficiency outcomes of Mandarin immersion learners in the U.S.
Access this brief and others in the series at http://carla.umn.edu/immersion/briefs.html
Source: CARLA
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Title: Podcast: Directing a Language Program and Being Teacher of the Year
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In Episode 74 of the We Teach Languages podcast series, Dr. Brenna Byrd talks about her role at the University of Kentucky, her experience as the 2017 teacher of the year for SCOLT (the Southern Conference on Language Teaching), and her advice for new graduate student instructors navigating challenges in the classroom. She is the director of beginning German at the University of Kentucky, and she is in charge of the curriculum for the first four semesters of German. You can listen to the full podcast at https://weteachlang.com/2018/10/12/ep-74-with-brenna-byrd/
Source: We Teach Languages
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