Online Literacy Classes for First and Second Language Learners
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This is a re-post of an article I wrote a year ago, in the wake of the George Floyd protests, that my students were asking me about. It is still important. It still shapes my teaching and my courses. In the last months, we have seen an explosion of protests and social change in the…
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Writers Need Readers Introducing: Kids Get Published, my tool for creating authentic writing opportunities for children. Learning how to write is hard. Teaching children how to write well is even harder. And we have to start in primary school. Too often, we leave intensive writing lessons to the upper years, waiting until they are ‘old…
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This morning, during a zoom lesson with a 4ieme (8th grade) student, I forgot what caused Fragile X Syndrome. The lesson was on chromosome aberrations, and I am out of practice. He’s falling behind in his science lessons, and we are using his school holiday to help him catch up and review. It’s been a…
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CLIL is a pedagogy and teaching style that teaches both language skills and content – science, history, a novel, any topic – at the same time. It originated as a method for teaching second language learners, but is an approach I also use with fluent or first language learners who are engaging with and producing texts and articles.
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