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Sunday, April 7, 2013

Drawing Connections with colleagues ,old friends and students

Keeping in touch with long lost old friends,and even students , are theraputic in a way.

Souvenirs and good memories places

The most used websites by my colleagues and students the last four years are...Fun learning and practicing your English,math and science.

ESL Interactive Vocabulary in Sciences

Check out this link to learn science vocabulary. On Promethean board and PowerPoint.My team found that students enjoyed learning new academic words this way.
mplslearningcircles.wikispaces.com/Science+interactive+VocabInteractive vocabulay

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Tiered sentences are necessary to introduce academic language(Bricks&Mortar words) to students in content subjects."Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language - natural communication - in which speakers are concerned not with the form of their utterances but with the messages they are conveying and understanding."

Stephen Krashen

Sentence stems to help students predict if an animal is nocturnal:

Beginning.

*I think this animal...

*The owl is...

*The crow is...

Intermediate.

*I think this animal is... because...

*I know it is noctunal because its color is---

*This animal eats----, so I think it is noctunal.

Advanced.

*I think nocturnal animals live in---

places, so this animal must be nocturnal.

*I think humans are --- because---

I believe we are ---

for several reasons.

DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

By Zwiers,Jeff Has Tiered Sentence Starters

Friday, June 24, 2011

ESL Trail: Five Free Technology Tools for ELL/ESL Teachers an...

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