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Title: Report: What the Research Says on Instruction for English Learners Across Subject Areas
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From https://educationnorthwest.org
In June 2018 the librarians at Education Northwest compiled a list of "recent studies and articles on teaching practices, programs and protocols for English learner instruction to help students meet the academic demands of state standards and close the achievement gap."
The annotated list is available at https://educationnorthwest.org/resources/what-research-says-instruction-english-learners-across-subject-areas
Source: Education Northwest
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Title: Beginning the Year with English Learners in Mind
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From https://www.middleweb.com
Valentina Gonzalez shares what middle school teachers can do to help English learners feel comfortable as they begin the new school year: https://www.middleweb.com/38401/beginning-the-year-with-english-learners-in-mind/
Source: MiddleWeb
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Title: Improv Activities for a Language Classroom
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Here are descriptions of seven improvisational activities that are appropriate (the language in one may need to be modified) for language classrooms, based on Viola Spolin's book Improvisation for the Theater: https://www.eflmagazine.com/spolin-improv-activities/
Here are more improvisational suggestions from Geraldine McIlwaine: https://geraldineubeda.wordpress.com/2018/08/12/improvisation-in-the-elt-classroom/
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Title: More Back-to-School Resources
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Here are a few more back-to-school resources that teachers are sharing:
Amy Lenord shares what she did in her first week of classes, with an intentional focus on students learning how to learn: https://www.amylenord.net/blog/learning-to-learn
If you're hoping up to set up a class library, Spanish Mama has assembled a collection of photos of different teachers' classroom setups to give you some great ideas: https://spanishmama.com/spanish-classroom-libraries/
Here are some classroom organization tips from Secondary Spanish Space: http://www.secondaryspanishspace.com/2018/08/back-to-spanish-class-7-ideas-for.html
Here's part one of a collection of activities for newcomer ELL classrooms near the beginning of the school year: http://salvac.edublogs.org/2018/08/22/bap034-part-i-of-activities-for-the-newcomer-classroom-with-kenzie-twitchell/
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Title: Student Book Reviews for Free Voluntary Reading
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From http://pomegranatebeginnings.blogspot.com
In this project, students read a novella they haven't read before, and compile basic information about it. Then, groups of students complete surveys about the novellas they've read. Next, the groups compile the information into a single entry about each novella they're assigned. Finally, the teacher tapes QR codes onto the back of each novella that are linked to an online catalog with this information. Now, students can scan a book to see what other students have to say about it, when they're wondering what to read next.
Read a more thorough description of the entire process at http://pomegranatebeginnings.blogspot.com/2018/08/fvr-project-in-three-parts.html
Source: Pomegranate Beginnings
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Title: Teaching Possessive Adjectives
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From http://teachinginthetargetlanguage.com
Teaching 'my', 'your', etc. doesn't sound very exciting, does it? In this post, learn how you can use the PACE model with students who are learning possessive adjectives, while staying in the target language. The post includes several activities that practice talking about possession.
Read the blog post at http://teachinginthetargetlanguage.com/possessive-adjectives-another-boring-grammatical-structure-that-does-not-have-to-be-so-boring/
Source: Teaching in the Target Language
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Title: Cell Phone Trick for More Comprehensible Input
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From http://indwellinglanguage.com
What do you do when your cell phone rings in the middle of class? Justin Slocum Bailey has a great idea: pretend to answer it, and re-tell the imaginary caller what you and the class were just talking about. The novelty engages students, and everyone gets more repetition.
Read the full blog post for details and for more ideas for "centuple exposure" where you are able to re-tell a story in an engaging way: http://indwellinglanguage.com/cell-phone-retell-tricks-for-centuple-exposure/
Source: Indwelling Language
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Title: Brain Breaks
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From http://todallycomprehensiblelatin.blogspot.com
We've shared lots of brain break resources in the past. Here is another - a recent blog post summarizing what they are, criteria for a good one, and links to collections of brain break activities: http://todallycomprehensiblelatin.blogspot.com/2018/08/brain-breaks.html
Source: Todally Comprehensible Latin
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Title: Teaching Pronunciation Communicatively with an In-Class Flip
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From http://martharamirez.com.co
Last year Jeff Magoto described in-class flips as a way of maximizing classroom time with learner choice (http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/23624). In a recent blog post, Martha Ramirez, a pioneer of the in-class flip, describes how she uses an in-class flip with seven different stations to work on English pronunciation within a communicative framework.
Read the post for great ideas on teaching pronunciation and using in-class flips and stations: http://martharamirez.com.co/blog/in-class-flip-teaching-pronunciation-communicatively/
Source: Martha Ramirez
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Title: Teaching Clock: Online Changeable Clock
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Teaching Clock is a very simple resource. It shows the current time, and you can adjust it by increments ranging from one minute to one hour. Clocks are available in analog (which many contemporary students struggle to read), 12-hour, and 24-hour. Your InterCom editor had a class set of manipulative analog clocks when she taught Spanish; this simple online resource is a more versatile digital version.
Teaching Clock is available at https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock
Source: Top Marks
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