World History
A number of my students are either currently ESOL students or were in the program in the last year or two. So one of the resources we use is Howjsay.com where you can input a word and it says it for you. The other day for example, we were looking at Japan and submitted the word archipelago. It also links the word to a Google search so you can find out more about what you are trying to pronounce.
- Origin Of "x"
One of my new teacher-students, Dan Ashley, gave me this 3 minute video on the origin of "x." It comes from Arabic by way of Spain. The Spanish could not pronounce the the Arabic word below (meaning "something" so they made it "x" instead...
- Lingro To Translate, Define And Give Part Of Speech
So this year two great things have already happened. 1) I decided to improve my teaching by taking on a co-ESOL teacher and taking 10 very new to the US kids in addition to my load of 20. Secondly my AP and I hired several very tech savvy...
- How To Determine The Reading Level Of A Document
I am thinking ahead to next year and how I will use the reading tests I give my students at the beginning of the year. Since I have technology for them all my next goal is going to differentiate for them. I see differentiation as going two...
- Google Drive Extension For Reading, Dictionary, Pictionary And More
In three weeks I am presenting to a special education classroom and have started doing some research of education technology I want to show them in my 90 minutes (which I will post here on that day). For now I found this great extension (watch...
- Learning Through Spatial Organization
Any good teacher will tell you that students learn best when connecting items together rather than when learning one after the other. Thus studying vocab words by themselves is less effective than using them (as do my 4th grade daughters) to tell...
World History
Howjsay to Pronounce Words
- Origin Of "x"
One of my new teacher-students, Dan Ashley, gave me this 3 minute video on the origin of "x." It comes from Arabic by way of Spain. The Spanish could not pronounce the the Arabic word below (meaning "something" so they made it "x" instead...
- Lingro To Translate, Define And Give Part Of Speech
So this year two great things have already happened. 1) I decided to improve my teaching by taking on a co-ESOL teacher and taking 10 very new to the US kids in addition to my load of 20. Secondly my AP and I hired several very tech savvy...
- How To Determine The Reading Level Of A Document
I am thinking ahead to next year and how I will use the reading tests I give my students at the beginning of the year. Since I have technology for them all my next goal is going to differentiate for them. I see differentiation as going two...
- Google Drive Extension For Reading, Dictionary, Pictionary And More
In three weeks I am presenting to a special education classroom and have started doing some research of education technology I want to show them in my 90 minutes (which I will post here on that day). For now I found this great extension (watch...
- Learning Through Spatial Organization
Any good teacher will tell you that students learn best when connecting items together rather than when learning one after the other. Thus studying vocab words by themselves is less effective than using them (as do my 4th grade daughters) to tell...