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Title: Magistrula: Latin Resources
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Magistrula is Latin teacher Anna Andresian's website. It includes grammar resources (charts, sentence translation activities, and worksheets) as well as games ("zombie" games to practice vocabulary, mythology, and more; lacunae, which are fill-in-the-blank story games, and more) and additional resources.
Explore this website at https://www.magistrula.com/
Source: Magistrula
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Title: Book: Comida y cultura en el mundo hispánico
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From https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/food-and-culture-in-the-hispanic-world-ana-m-gomez-bravo/
Comida y cultura en el mundo hispánico
By Ana M. Gómez-Bravo
Published by Equinox Publishing
This is the first Spanish textbook to use food as the vantage point from which to learn language and acquire cultural literacy. It presents a rich introduction to food and food practices across the Hispanic world. It serves advanced secondary-level/high school students and students in third- and fourth-year Spanish at the university level who are furthering their knowledge of Hispanic cultures.
Information is organized according to topics and key concepts, with historical and literary texts acting as enrichment and support for cultural concepts. Each chapter is comprised of a main reading on a key topic (for example, Aztec food practices) and followed by smaller sections on particular concepts or artifacts related to the main topic. There are sections on related language expressions, topics for discussion and suggested activities. Each chapter also contains illustrations in the form of color photographs. Suggestions for video, audio and web links are listed for each chapter.
Visit the publisher's website at https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/food-and-culture-in-the-hispanic-world-ana-m-gomez-bravo/
Source: Equinox Publishing
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Title: Spanish Christmas Activities for Young Learners
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Thanksgiving is over, and for many of us the holiday season has begun. Here is a round-up of classroom ideas and resources for young Spanish learners during the Christmas season: http://spanishmama.com/spanish-christmas-activities/
Source: Spanish Mama
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Title: Spanish Preschool Activities
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From http://www.spanishplayground.net/
Here are ten adaptable activities for preschool Spanish learners: http://www.spanishplayground.net/spanish-preschool-activities/
Source: Spanish Playground
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Title: Wikipicto: Spanish Image Dictionary
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Wikipicto is a fairly large collection of Spanish words paired with images and, amazingly, defined by sentences in which each word is also represented by an image: see an example here: https://www.wikipicto.com/pictograma-ampliado.php?id=423. This website could serve as a resource for young learners or those with limited literacy to look up words, and it can also give teachers and students ideas for how to visually represent different words, including some content words.
Wikipicto is available at https://www.wikipicto.com/
Source: Wikipicto
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Title: Acceso: Free Spanish Curriculum for Intermediate Learners
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From http://acceso.ku.edu/about.shtml
The University of Kansas Collaborative Digital Spanish Project (Acceso) is an open-access, digital learning environment designed to promote the acquisition of Spanish and the development of cultural understanding of the varied groups of people who share Spanish as a common language. Acceso is intended as a complete, interactive curriculum for intermediate-level learners of Spanish. The materials on this site are provided freely to the public and are intended as a replacement for commercial textbooks. These materials are supplemented by an online workbook built on the MySpanishLab platform of Pearson Education, Inc., as well as detailed lesson plans, rubrics for the evaluation of student work, and reliable instruments for measuring student progress and learning outcomes.
Acceso is available at http://acceso.ku.edu/
Source: University of Kansas
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Title: Article: Using Graphic Novel for Peace Education in an English Language Classroom
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From https://www.languagemagazine.com/2017/11/literacy-gets-critical/
When Literacy Gets Critical
By Lina Sun
November 19, 2017
There has been an increasing interest in teaching with graphic novels to promote literacy (e.g., Gorman, 2003; Schwarz, 2002). A pedagogy of multiliteracies using graphic novels can enhance reading engagement and achievement, reinforcing students’ senses of their identities as readers who are learners and thinkers (Guthrie, 2004). However, there is scant mention of how such multimodal texts can be used for fostering students’ critical literacies and promoting peace education in the English Learner (EL) classroom.
This article provides a rationale for integrating peace education into the EL curriculum and examples of methodological approaches to helping post-secondary teachers use graphic novels as a powerful tool to cultivate students’ critical thinking abilities and a disposition for peace and democracy.
Read the full article at https://www.languagemagazine.com/2017/11/literacy-gets-critical/
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: 5 Ways School Principals Can Support English Learners
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Judie Haynes suggests five ways that principals can support English learners in this recent article:
1. Create a schoolwide environment of welcome and respect for students and parents who are new to the United States.
2. Get to know your ELs.
3. Develop quality programs for ELs, especially those who are newcomers.
4. Include parents of ELs in the education of their children.
5. Provide professional development for all staff members on English language development and the culture of your students.
Read the article at http://blog.tesol.org/5-ways-school-principals-can-support-english-learners/
Source: TESOL
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Title: Podcast: Teaching Vocabulary for Acquisition, Part 1
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In episode 28 of the We Teach Languages podcast series, Joe Barcroft discusses his ten principles for vocabulary acquisition from his book Input-Based Incremental Vocabulary. Listen to the conversation here: https://weteachlang.com/2017/11/17/ep-2-vocabulary-with-joe-barcroft-part-i/
Part 2 will come out next week.
Source: We Teach Languages
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Title: Assessment in Elementary Foreign Language Classes
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From https://elmundodepepita.blogspot.com
Here are the first two parts in a three-part series on assessment in elementary foreign language classes. In Part 1, read about different assessments for different skills: https://elmundodepepita.blogspot.com/2017/10/tips-for-assessment-in-elementary.html
In Part 2, get some ideas for organizing and tracking assessment data: http://elmundodepepita.blogspot.com/2017/11/tips-for-assessment-part-2-ideas-for.html
Source: Mundo de Pepita
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