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Title: Heat Wave Vocabulary in French
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Read an English-language article about the heat wave in France, access a poster educating the public on how to stay cool, and scan through a vocabulary list related to the heat in this recent post from Transparent Language: http://blogs.transparent.com/french/just-like-a-heatwave-heat-related-vocabulary-in-french/
Source: Transparent Language
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Title: Tour de France Resources
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The Tour de France started last weekend and will continue through July 26. Richard Byrne describes some helpful resources related to the Tour and to bicycling in general in this blog post: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/07/a-few-educational-resources-related-to.html. Also, learn how to follow the Tour on Google Earth: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/07/explore-tour-de-france-in-google-earth.html
Here’s a short lesson about the Tour de France from Transparent Language: https://tplsites.s3.amazonaws.com/courses/mini_lessons/Le_Tour_de_France/unit1.html
Finally, visit the official Tour de France website in English at http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2015/us/ or in French at http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2015/
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Title: Vegetables in Spanish: Video and Picture Cards
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From http://www.spanishplayground.net
Here is an easy-to-understand Spanish-language video about vegetables, along with picture cards, activity suggestions, and language and culture notes on the Spanish Playground website: http://www.spanishplayground.net/vegetables-in-spanish-video-picture-cards/
Source: Spanish Playground
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Title: King Felipe VI’s Universal Spanish Language Proficiency Test
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From http://languagemagazine.com/?p=124085
King Felipe VI’s Universal Spanish Language Proficiency Test
by Judy Heflin
July 2, 2015
Last month at the San Ildefonso College in Mexico City, Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia launched the Siele, or the International Service for Evaluation of the Spanish Language, which is set to be a globally recognized Spanish language certificate encompassing the diversity of the language from all Spanish-speaking countries. “If we want to reaffirm Spanish as the world’s second language, we have to move beyond a short-term, self-self-absorbed vision and pool everyone’s resources to achieve a goal that will benefit us all,” said King Felipe VI of Spain in a speech during the king and queen’s official visit to Mexico where they championed the Spanish language as an engine of growth for the entire Spanish-speaking world. The test will determine a student’s Spanish skills, and can be administered practically anywhere on the planet.
Read the full article at http://languagemagazine.com/?p=124085
Read more about the SIELE in Spanish at http://www.cervantes.es/sobre_instituto_cervantes/prensa/2015/noticias/siele-presentacion-mexico.htm
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: Vocabulary Through Social Media With SayWhat
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Ivy Li describes how English learners can use SayWhat, an app that crowd-sources video definitions of words, mostly slang. Read her review at http://blog.tesol.org/guest-writer-vocabulary-through-social-media-with-saywhat/.
SayWhat is available at http://www.saywhatyo.com/. Since the site deals mostly with slang, be sure to preview it before sharing it with your students.
Source: TESOL
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Title: What Do English-Only Laws Mean for DLLs/ELLs?
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The eighth post of EdCentral’s 10-part series about dual language learners deals with the history and impact of English-only laws on dual language learners and more general on English language learners. Read the article (and prior articles in the series) at http://www.edcentral.org/dllreader8/.
Source: EdCentral
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Title: Reading Texts for Adult ELLs
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Robert Sheppard shares some sources of good reading materials for adult English learners (and how to select and use authentic texts) in this post on the TESOL website: http://blog.tesol.org/reading-texts-for-adult-ells/
Source: TESOL
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Title: Article: Theater Helps English Learners Master Common Core
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Theater helps English learners master Common Core: But can it close the achievement gap?
by Margaret Ramirez
June 23, 2015
Inside Kelly Budde’s language arts class at Thomas A. Edison Elementary School, 11-year-old Carlos Vazquez was starring in the lead role of the Hairy Frog in the original production, “Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow.”
…In this riotous classroom filled with budding thespians and English language learners, the goal of this lively theater exercise was to teach literacy, boost vocabulary and help students master the new Common Core language arts curriculum. It has proved popular with most of Edison’s more than 430 students, but principal Ivan Tolentino says it is particularly beneficial to the 40 percent of the student body who are English learners (as many as 95 percent of Edison pupils speak another language at home).
Read the full article at http://hechingerreport.org/theater-helps-english-learners-master-common-core-but-can-it-close-the-achievement-gap/
Source: The Hechinger Report
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Title: Anchor Charts in the World Language Classroom
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From http://www.amylenord.net/
Anchor charts are prominent classroom displays that are co-constructed with students and support the learning that’s going on in the classroom. You can read quick overviews of anchor charts at http://commoncorewritingacademy.com/2014/10/08/all-about-anchor-charts/ and at http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2014/03/anchor-charts-effective-teacherstudent-tool.
Then you can read Spanish teacher Amy Lenord’s blog post in which she discusses her ideas about anchor charts in a world language classroom here: http://www.amylenord.net/blog/anchors-away
Source: Language Coaching
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Title: Foreign Languages for Preschoolers
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An FLTEACH listserv user recently asked for guidelines for teaching foreign languages to preschoolers. Read the original query here: https://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1507&L=FLTEACH&P=R2217&I=-3&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches
Many listserv users have suggested resources; click on “Next” by “By Topic” to see their responses.
Source: FLTEACH
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