Thursday, March 08, 2012
A slide presentation by Nellie Deutsch at WizIQ, "ESL/EFL Students Lack the Skills to Cope with Reading Comprehension"
Monday, March 05, 2012
Grammaropolis: Personified Parts of Speech
What it is: Grammaropolis is a site I have long been a fan of. I’ve written about it in the past in these posts. Grammaropolis recently got a significant upgrade with TONS of new, great features. The site now includes character descriptions for nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions and interjections. In addition to the great descriptions, each character includes a song, videos, book, games and, soon, quizzes. Not all of this content is free, but there is enough free content to be useful in every classroom no matter the budget. All of the content associated with the Noun character is free. Every other character includes the character description and book for free. The music, videos, quizzes and games are “extras” that are available by subscription.
Saturday, March 03, 2012
Even if you are not in school or have students, get up and dance anyway. Who needs an excuse. Try some of these ideas to practice English while you dance.
March is Music in our Schools Month! There has never been a better excuse to get up and dance with your students. To encourage you to bring music into your classroom this month, we’ve created a collection of useful links. These links are full of ideas for using music in the classroom. You will find lesson plans, teacher reflections, books, webinars, website reviews, and more. Thank you to all of our twitter pals for suggesting links to add to this page.
Read the rest at Music in the English Language Classroom | ESL Library Blog