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Helping every student experience meaningful, deep learning is a constant challenge, in no small part because no two learners are alike. To reach students who are particularly challenged -- whether because of their ability to speak English or some other reason -- educators can find a way in by tapping into students' interests and passion. 
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"English language learners fall into two categories — native speakers and those pursuing it via ESL/EFL instruction (or self-instruction!). But both demographics can build up their skills, no matter their age or proficiency, through game-based learning. The Internet, in its infinite providence, does not disappoint when it comes to hosting effective resources for teaching and reviewing the core components of the English language. Here’s a few particularly useful games or, more accurately in most cases, suites of games." There is a wide range of games suggested and you should be able to find ones available for students from elementary school through high school.
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This post contains resources to "help learners visualize their learning, lesson ideas, and more!" As well as a the Working with Images SlideShare, there is A Pearl Tree of More Resources (with links to sites with images) as well as Juliana's Bookr, a book created in Pinpanpum (http://www.pimpampum.net/).
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Being bilingual makes you smarter and can have a profound effect on your brain. The NY Times has a tiered subscription. Information included in this article may also be found at http://lifehacker.com/5895128/learning-a-second-language-can-give-your-brain-a-boost
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Practice English vocabulary, the alphabet, and numbers. Place your cursor over an image to hear it pronounced aloud. A great site for ELL students.
Vocabmonk's curator insight,
September 30, 2014 3:16 AM
A great source for ELL Students to Practice English vocabulary, the alphabet, and numbers. 
Gabriela Teixeira's curator insight,
November 15, 2014 10:37 PM
Easy to use, it teaches parts of the body, colors, ordinal numbers, just by positioning your mouse over the objects. |
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Reading Activity Reading Comprehension - How well do you understand the things you read? Test and improve your reading with our reading comprehension activity! This activity includes 140 texts, each with a set of challenging questions.
Beth Dichter's insight:
If you are looking for online books to help beginner readers or ELL students check out 140 texts available at GCF Learn Free. Each text can be read to the student and there are four questions for each story. If a student answers a question incorrectly they may try again.
Jessica Janus's curator insight,
October 23, 2014 9:26 PM
I tired this out and I think this is a great tool to integrate within the classroom. Perhaps on Friday when there is some free time.
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Do you know about Simple English Wikipedia? Written using "simple English words and grammar" and with over 86,00 articles Simple English Wikipedia is designed to allow readers the ability to understand the topic. It also allows you to make your own book, that you may download as a PDF or ODF. Using "Create a Book" you may add pages you are viewing or all pages in a category. You may also rearrange the pages. To access Create a Book click on this link:
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An infographic that explores the gaps and resource mismatches in meeting the needs of an ever growing ELL population. The infographic may be downloaded as a pdf file.
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Learn English...many great activities for students learning English.
Gabriela Teixeira's curator insight,
November 15, 2014 10:28 PM
Amazing! Together with oral skills this game also associates sounds to its spelling correlates.
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Simply put, VizLingo is a messaging tool that translates your words into video. It’s easy! Just type, see and send. Type any message into VizLingo to see each word of that message illustrated by a 1-2 second video clip.
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How do we get our students to do deeper learning? One way it to find our what our students are passionate about, allowing them to connect their personal life to their academic life.
The post discusses challenges that of English language learners, yet the ideas apply to all of our students. Three sections provide suggestions:
* Creating Structures for Success
* Teacher Grouping
* School Structures to Promote Success
There are many quotes I could choose to share. This is the one I have chosen:
'“The first thing that comes to mind for me is changing students’ perceptions of themselves so they don’t see themselves as unable to learn...If they are thinking about themselves as students who are exercising that muscle, the brain, then it changes their perception of themselves.”