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Some Internet websites to help students learn reading skills online. I will keep updating this list as I find more. Feel free to share in the comments section as well.
Into the Book a site to teach strategies for reading. The texts are a bit simplified, but the strategies are great.
NYTimes Learning Blog The New York Times has great activities, exercises and quizzes to practice learning about current events.
List of Choose Your Own Adventure Games: from Larry Ferlazzo
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This lesson aims to teach students a strategy for reading better by constantly formulating questions as they read in order to keep their minds focused on the meaning of the text and to keep motivation up.
Objectives
To teach students a technique they can use to read more effectively
To help students understand texts better
To make students more autonomous
Materials
A newspaper article or use this fake article
A short text, preferably one page or so.
Post-It Notes
Another text, one that they need to read for class anyway.
Warm-Up
Ask students to discuss in pairs or small groups what …Continue
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Yesterday was Read Across America Day. Hope you did some reading to someone somewhere. Being read to is awesome and, as you all no doubt know, reading does all sorts of wonderful things to your grasp of a new language far outside of just reading skills.
In honor of RAAD (Trying to spread that, though it would be a much cooler acronym if there was an E in there; Read Everything America Day, anyone?), here are some books I read recently or am reading or am planning to read in the near …Continue
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If you haven’t seen these toys offered by the always generous and creative Jason Renshaw, you are missing out. These are awesome templates for DIY materials and videos on how to use them. Plus some design ideas.
For what it’s worth, I was so inspired by the 1:3 tutorial that I made up my own: 1 to 3 lesson template which anyone is welcome to use or adapt. As always, discussions of how to make it better are always appreciated. It is really fun to make materials that are shiny and pretty even …Continue
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As I’m working on my ESL Discussion Lessons for Every Day of the Year project, I discovered that Sean Banville has beaten me to it with ESL Holiday Lessons. Not surprising given how prolific he is and how fast he gets topical lesson plans up.
Sean’s site only covers unusual or fun holidays–today is No Housework Day, and the lesson plans are done in his usual format of a short reading, a phrase match, gapfills, comprehension questions, vocab work, ordering the text, a short writing with discussion questions written by …Continue
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Instructions: Use the Internet or other resources to find the answers to these questions about April Fools’ Day and other funny traditions.
What is the connection between April Fools Day and Chaucer?
What is the connection between lions, the Tower of London, and April Fools’ Day?
What country calls people who are fooled on April, “April fish”?
What is snipe hunting?
In England or New Zealand, what time of day on 1 April should you play a joke on someone?
What does King Charles IX have to do with April Fools Day?
What is Childermas? What does …Continue
My name is Walton. I'm an English teacher in New Haven. This site is mainly where I share my lesson plans and activity ideas to try to help other teachers and also to hopefully get some feedback. Feel free to use anything here, but just don't put them up on your site or pass them off as your own, please.