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Title: Positive Description Activity for French Learners
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From http://www.thefrenchcorner.net
Here's a simple activity that builds community by having students describe each other with positive words: http://www.thefrenchcorner.net/2018/05/les-adjectifs-positifs-self-esteem.html
Source: The French Corner
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Title: Video: Stonemasonry in Mexico
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Here is a short video about the stonemasons that maintain the city of Morelia in Mexico. Mexican Handcraft Masters: Stonemasonry celebrates the traditional methods of extraction, cutting and carving with which stonemasons have sustained Morelia’s beauty for 500 years, and which they must find a way to pass down to future generations to preserve the city’s singular architecture.
Watch the video at https://aeon.co/videos/how-keeping-a-craft-tradition-alive-can-bring-a-500-year-old-city-into-the-future
Source: Aeon
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Title: New Teacher-authored Materials for Spanish Heritage Programs
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These lessons are a product of a school year’s worth of work. Teachers attended COERLL’s summer 2017 Spanish heritage language workshop, submitted lesson proposals, wrote their lessons, and edited and finalized their work based on feedback from the heritage Spanish project team.
- El graffiti y el arte urbano hispanoamericano [CC] by Carmen Ensenat (Baltimore County Public Schools)
- Videos for Elementary and Middle School Learners of Spanish [CC] by Josie Jesser (The Girls School of Austin)
- La Imaginación [CC] by Josie Jesser (a lesson plan to accompany one of the videos listed above)
- Spanglish en los medios de comunicación [CC] by Alex Zunterstein (University of Oregon)
Access these lessons and more resources at https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/resources/activities/
Source: COERLL
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Title: Venn Diagrams for Young Learners
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From https://elmundodepepita.blogspot.com
Graphic organizers are great tools for scaffolding higher-level thinking with limited language proficiency. In this blog post, Julie from Mundo de Pepita describes how she uses hula hoops with her young Spanish learners for a hands-on use of Venn diagrams. Watch a video in which she and her young students compare and contrast picnics in two different storybooks.
The blog post and video are available at https://elmundodepepita.blogspot.com/2018/05/how-to-use-venn-diagram-in-your-world.html
Source: Mundo de Pepita
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Title: Resources for Superlatives in Spanish
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Here's a collection of culture-based resources dealing with superlatives in Spanish from the Zambombazo website: http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/superlatives/
Source: Zambombazo
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Title: SIOP Technique: Assessing Throughout the Teaching
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From https://www.empoweringells.com
Tan Huynh continues his series discussing and exemplifying SIOP techniques for English learners in this recent post about assessing formatively throughout a unit of teaching and making pre-summative review most impactful.
Read the post at https://www.empoweringells.com/assessing-learning/
Learn more about SIOP at http://www.cal.org/siop/
Source: Empowering ELLs
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Title: Article: Immigrant Students Pushed into GED Programs
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From http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article210951849.html
These immigrants came for a better education. Now, they'll never graduate high school
BY LENA JACKSON, BRENDA MEDINA AND KYRA GURNEY
May 16, 2018
They come fleeing gang violence and repressive regimes. They come after hurricanes and earthquakes. They come in search of work and an education.
But in Miami-Dade County, a place built by the aspirations of newcomers, hundreds of immigrant teens will never graduate from high school.
Instead, they will end up in adult education programs — some of which are taught in Spanish — where they learn little English and where they finish, if they’re lucky, with the high school equivalency diploma known as a GED (General Educational Development). The path to college and a well-paying job, already a struggle for an immigrant, will become even more difficult.
Read the full article at http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article210951849.html
Source: Miami Herald
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Title: Article Series: Welcoming Newcomers
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From https://www.gse.harvard.edu/uk/welcoming-newcomers
In this special series of articles, the Harvard Graduate School of Education explores strategies and practices that best support newcomer students and their families: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/uk/welcoming-newcomers
Source: Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Title: Research Summary: Vocabulary Coverage and TED Talks
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From http://www.eltresearchbites.com
Anthony Schmidt summarizes a 2017 study by U. Nurmukhamedov on the lexical coverage of TED Talks and how much vocabulary a person needs to know in order to understand their content. His takeaway: "TED Talks offer a powerful language learning tool and have a number of benefits. There are many ways to use TED Talks for intensive and extensive language learning, but, as this study indicates, having a large vocabulary is essential if learners are going to get any use out of these talks. I would recommend using short excerpts and scaffolding instruction to learn important vocabulary (and pronunciation) before moving on to other listening- and meaning-based activities."
Read the research summary at http://www.eltresearchbites.com/201805-how-much-does-your-ted-talk-vocabulary-coverage-and-ted-talks/
Source: ELT Research Bites
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Title: Flashcard Games from Linguacious
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Linguacious is a company that sells language flashcards for children, embedded with QR codes so that anyone with a mobile device can hear the words pronounced.
The Linguacious website also has suggestions for games that can be played with the flashcards, many of these can be adapted to be played with any flashcards or in some cases a regular deck of cards. Read the games page at https://www.linguacious.net/flashcardgames/
Audio to accompany the cards is also available on the website. Currently supported languages are English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Mandarin, Greek, and Italian.
Source: Linguacious
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