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Both the Common Core and ISTE Standards expect students to demonstrate oral communication skills as early as kindergarten. But while the Common Core's English Language Arts Standards stress the value of students speaking audibly and clearly to express their thoughts and ideas, the ISTE Standards for Students emphasize the importance of using digital media for expression, communication and collaboration.

Implementing more than one set of standards may seem like a tall order for educators, but it isn't. The ISTE Standards and Common Core integrate seamlessly when students are encouraged to use digital resources to hone their skills.
Practice communication with voice recordings
One way to get students to perfect their communication skills is to use voice recorders or audio software to practice speaking clearly and at an understandable pace. You can use voice recordings for various subjects, grade levels and lesson types.

Here are a few ideas for using voice recorders in common classroom activities:

Presentations. Older students can record the final draft of a speech or presentation so they can hear how it sounds and make adjustments before they present to an audience.

Stories. Primary students can record a student-created or favorite story to practice fluency. When young learners record themselves saying their favorite nursery rhyme, they get the opportunity to hear just what they sound like and determine where they need improvement.

Book talks. Students of any age can create a short book talk of their favorite or recently read book. These recordings can be an English language arts performance task and be accessible in the school library to help other students decide if the book is something they'd like to read.

Math facts. Let students record themselves reciting their math facts. When they listen to their recording, have them identify which facts they are having trouble with.

Here are some voice recording tools you can use on various devices:

Web tools for desktops and laptops
Vocaroo. This free website is simple to use, so it doesn't require much instruction. Everything you need to know to get started is covered in this screencast. Students click a button to start and stop the recording. They can replay and re-record until they are satisfied with the outcome. Then they can save the files as MP3s or QR codes and embed them in blog posts, use them in presentations, email them to teachers or parents, or share them in a digital invitation to a school event.

Audacity.This is a free program for PC or Mac. Like Vocaroo, Audacity allows students to record, playback and save their recordings. Watch this screencast to see how it's done. There are more bells and whistles on Audacity, but creating a voice recording is simple. Students hit "Record" and start talking. Audacity allows you to save as a WAV or MP3 file, so students can use their recordings for various projects.
Apps for iOS devices
QuickVoice Recorder.This iPhone/iPad app has both a free and paid version. Students record their voices by hitting the red "Record" button. Once the recording is finished, students name the file and email it. The recipient can then open the file using QuickTime. A word of caution: If using the free version, the file must be no larger than 5 MB to email.

iTalk Recorder. This is another iPhone/iPad app with both a free and paid version. Students tap the big red button to record or stop recording. The paid version allows users to append to existing recordings, choose from three levels of recording quality, and email recordings from the app or send to Dropbox. Be aware that the free version contains ads.

Videoconferencing for two-way communication
Eventually you'll want your students to practice using digital tools to communicate with peers and experts. A number of free resources allow videoconferencing from multiple devices and platforms. Videoconferencing is a great way to connect entire classrooms or allow students to work in teams with peers around the globe using free group calling.

Here are a couple of ways to use videoconferencing in the classroom:

Mystery Skype. Probably the most popular videoconferencing activity is Mystery Skype. This is when two classrooms connect over a videoconference and the students ask each other questions to figure out where the other class lives. This is a great way to connect speaking and listening skills or to teach geography and culture in a fun way.

Guest speakers. For middle and high school students, a videoconference can also bring a large spectrum of experts into the classroom. From NASA employees talking about a recent mission to college graduate students discussing their field of study, videoconferencing allows students to connect with their passions and curiosities.

To get started, check out the top three free videoconferencing tools:

You can use Skype on almost any device, including computers, a variety of tablets, smartphones, iPod touches, internet TV, Skype-ready landlines, and even your Xbox or PlayStation. Skype allows group calls of up to 25 people, and you can even hook up with a landline, but that costs extra. Educators should check out Skype in the Classroom, where you'll find experts and schools to connect with as well as lesson plans.

Google Hangouts. Google's free videoconferencing app is also available on phones, computers and tablets. Google Hangouts offers free group calls that can be livestreamed and recorded. Google Hangouts can include up to 10 users in one call. If livestreamed, others can view the call just like they would a video.

FaceTime. FaceTime is a built-in app on all iOS devices that have cameras. It's limited in that you can only talk to one person at a time and it's only available on iOS. If your district provides iOS devices for the classroom, FaceTime is a good way to connect with others in your district.

Eva Harvell has been an elementary teacher and tech integration specialist at Pascagoula School District in southeast Mississippi for 12 years. She connects with K-12 educators around the work and loves to help them integrate technology into daily classroom activities. She presents at numerous technology conferences and was named the 2013 Tech&Learning Leader of the Year. Follow her on Twitter @techie_teach.

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The Speaking and Listening strand of the Common Core State Standards addresses the need for learners to develop communication skills while sharing their learning with multiple audiences.

Students, at all grade levels, are encouraged to work collaboratively, finding best ways to communicate. Often, wrongly so, we assume that if a person can talk they have mastered the speaking mode of literacy; or, because they can hear they are good listeners.

Unfortunately, neither of these assumptions are accurate. In keeping with Common Core challenges, we need to create learning opportunities for students to engage in meaningful speaking activities and to improve listening skills through purpose-driven strategies. Fortunately, there are various Web 2.0 tools and apps that allow us to meet these challenges.
Speaking & Listening: QR Codes
A QR, or quick response, activity is a great way to incorporate both speaking and listening. The teacher or student makes audio recordings and publish to the web using Audioboo (online, http://audioboo.fm/; App store https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/audioboo/id305204540?mt=8) , AudioPal (see below), Podomatic (online, www. podomatic.com; App store https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/podomatic/id648258566?mt=8), etc. Linking their URL to a QR code generator, allows them to create a visual barcode of sorts that can be scanned for access. Great use for math trails, or any type of scavenger hunt; explanation of projects; or, like in the example below, as an active listening assignment relating to a song about the Fraterville Mine disaster:
3 QR Code Generators
2. QR Stuff: http://www.qrstuff.com/
4 QR Code Reader Apps
3. Top 10 Free Online QR Code Generators: http://freenuts.com/top-10-free-online-qr-code-generators/
Speaking & Listening Web 2.0 Tools

1. Qrafter: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/qrafter-qr-code-barcode-reader/id416098700?mt=8

2. Scan: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scan/id411206394?mt=8

3. i-nigma: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/i-nigma-qr-code-data-matrix/id388923203?mt=8

4. ScanLife: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scanlife-qr-code-reader-barcode/id285324287?mt=8

Students can use this tool to create animated videos, using their own voice by recording an MP3 or MP4 and then importing into Go! Animate. It can also be accessed as a listening tool when you share a prepared video (either with your own voice or a computer-generated one such as that which can be found in the "Discussing Math Methods Over Dinner" example shared below). Be sure that when using as a listening tool that you give specific things students are to listen for.
2. VoiceThread + iPad
Example: http://goanimate.com/videos/05MBuwCSYfPE?utm_source=linkshare&uid=0P6sABNF8DKI

VoiceThread is one of those tools that allows you to meet all of the literacy strands (reading, writing, speaking, listening, & viewing), but especially the speaking and listening strand. Available online (( http://voicethread.com/) and through a free app purchase ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voicethread/id465159110?mt=8), teachers can create VoiceThreads, having learners to view and respond through video, voice, or text. For a truly interactive experience, students can comment on each other's responses. See the Social Studies World Event VoiceThread example below:
3. Voki
Example: https://voicethread.com/myvoice/#u1394575.b3480752.i18241953

Voki, found online at http://www.voki.com/, is a fun way to engage students through talking avatars. Students can create their own avatars, designing them to resemble a historical character or a caricature of their own self. Using their own voice, they can enhance language skills, work on vocabulary, answer questions, the possibilities are endless! Likewise, teachers can create homework assignments, as in the example below, reinforcing listening skills by holding students accountable for completion of a specific task. The Voki website has close to 200 different lesson plans that apply the use of this tool across the curriculum.
4. AudioPal
Example: http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=8874500&height=267&width=200

Another tool that meets both the speaking and listening strands is AudioPal ( http://www.audiopal.com/). AudioPal allows you to record your voice through a mic or by calling in your message to a toll free number. There is no registration required, instead AudioPal sends you a link to your message. From there, you can embed your free audio player online.
Speaking & Listening iPad Apps
Example: http://www.audiopal.com/grab_your_widget.html?mId=42081713.2

Educreations + web version ( http://www.educreations.com/). Educreations on the app store at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/educreations-interactive-whiteboard/id478617061?mt=8 is a great tool to use in the flipped classroom concept. It allows you to upload presentations via multiple platforms (PowerPoint, Keynote, PDFs, etc.) and narrate them.
Other Speaking & Listening Technology Tools
Example (listening): http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/the-hunger-games-excerpt/8897145/?ref=link

Other iPad apps that can be used in the Speaking/Listening strands are numbered below:
Dr. Melissa Comer is a professor of literacy in the College of Education's Curriculum & Instruction Department at Tennessee Tech University. Dr. Leslie Suters is an associate professor of STEM education in the College of Education's Curriculum & Instruction Department at Tennessee Tech University. They will be co-presenting the session "Common Core Literacy Integration with App Flows" at the upcoming 2014 Teaching and Learning with the iPad Conference this November in Raleigh, NC. 16 Common Core Technology Tools-With Examples; Speaking & Listening In The Common Core; adapted image attribution flickr user flickeringbrad

1. Toontastic, an app that allows you to animate while recording your voice. (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toontastic/id404693282?mt=8). One example? Toontastic Video Culture - https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/293893

2. ShowMe, an app that lets you turn your iPad into an interactive whiteboard (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/showme-interactive-whiteboard/id445066279 )

3. Audioboo, an app that lets you record up to 10 minutes of audio (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/audioboo/id305204540?mt=8)

4. Sock Puppets, an app that lets you create lip-synched videos. (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sock-puppets/id394504903?mt=8)

5. Fotobabble, an app that lets you upload your photos and, well, babble about them. (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fotobabble/id353078443?mt=8)

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Editor's Note: Teaching Channel has partnered with Student Achievement Partners on a blog series about digital literacy tools and their effective use by educators.
The majority of the tools mentioned in this post and the four earlier posts in our series, transform the student experience from passive consumers of information to active creators of content, employing multiple English Language Arts standards and skills along the way.

We firmly believe this ought to be the new norm in the modern classroom. Kids have access to information; we must teach them how to navigate a world constantly evolving where content is at their fingertips. The traditional application of ELA isn't enough for future-ready learners. We would argue our students read and write more now than they ever have before -- between texting, social media, gaming, and everything else they do in their digitally fueled, online lives. Our vision must evolve to incorporate a new approach to literacy instruction, one in which technology becomes an accelerator to personalize and create meaningful learning contexts.

In this digital age, storytelling, comprehension, and the writing process are evolving before our eyes. Schools, then, must recognize and value the fact that a narrative doesn't always have to be told with pencil and paper, or that the steps of the writing process aren't bound by tradition.

In this final installment of our series, we focus on speaking and listening. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) stress the importance of communication, and challenge students to engage in conversation by using evidence to support an argument, while evaluating and listening to others' perspectives. The nine tools below create opportunities for students to employ their speaking and listening skills as creators and producers, and as called for by the CCSS.

BookTrack Classroom

BookTrack is an awesome, free tool that enhances both reading and writing by incorporating music. Students can create soundtracks for plays, poems, stories, or even their own creative writing, and share their creations with the world. Text and music both have the powerful ability to elicit an emotional reaction from the audience. With BookTrack, students can merge the two and bring a new dimension to the written word.

As English teacher Kate Baker explains, "BookTrack is the only tool that I've found that really helps students connect with author's purpose and tone in writing." Enhancing the text with music calls for students to think deeply and critically about the written word, and encourages them to create an experience for the reader. Children have to consider the audience; mood and tone of both the text and music; author's purpose; and employ digital editing and revising skills to create the soundtrack.

We're all familiar with the writing process, but do we ever stop to consider how that process is mirrored when children create and edit video and audio? We ask students to revise, edit, and publish in classroom tasks which imply these skills are the end goal, rather than a means to an end. We rarely give the process, as a whole, meaningful context. Composing with BookTrack provides an avenue for children to progress through to a final product in the creation process.

VideoNot.es

VideoNot.es is a platform that allows students to take notes synchronized with video. In other words, students can be viewing a video on half their screen while simultaneously taking notes on the other half.

This is an innovative way to help students engage deeply with a text, as called for by the Standards. The most amazing aspect to VideoNot.es is that each note is automatically synchronized with the video (think time-stamped). When students go back to review the notes they took, all they have to do is click on a line they typed and the video jumps to that specific point. VideoNot.es isn't simply limited to YouTube either (though it does work seamlessly there); Khan, Vimeo, and several MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platforms work as well. Additionally, the tool connects with a person's Google Drive account, so it's perfect for Google Apps For Education districts around the world.

Several uses exist for the tool, but teachers may find great value with VideoNot.es as part of a flipped learning model. Teachers can assign a video and ask students to take notes on its content. Additionally, teachers may ask students to jot down questions, connections, wonderings, wow/a-ha moments, etc. Students can then either share their notes with the teacher as a vehicle for personalized feedback, or with peers as part of structured opportunities for collaboration and dialogue. The tool encourages students to not simply listen to the content, but also to employ visual and oral comprehension strategies, along with writing processes.

PlayPosit & EDpuzzle

PlayPosit and Edpuzzle are two of our favorite tools that allow teachers to create interactive videos. Teachers can record a screencast or leverage existing videos, and embed questions at strategic points in a video to monitor comprehension and/or push a student's thinking. Teachers can differentiate content and questioning and promote self-paced learning. Additionally, by embedding formative assessment checks throughout the video and analyzing real time data based on student response, teachers can provide precise intervention or enrichment along with timely and specific feedback.

Teachers can use this tool as part of a flipped or blended learning model to provide self-paced learning opportunities. Videos can be taken from YouTube or teachers can utilize their own creations. Don't think of it as just a teacher tool; encourage students to create their own flipped videos with questions.

Podcasting

Speaking and Listening Standards can be supported by the creation of podcasts in the classroom. Students can practice fluency, produce book reviews, record a solo on their instrument, or reflect on assignments, to name a few possible podcasting activities. How often do students have the opportunity to listen to their own speech? Or process content and then be able to articulate the material in a way that is meaningful to them?

There are many ways educators can begin to implement podcasting, or digital voice recording, as part of their classroom practice. Teachers and students could begin using Google Voice to leave voicemail messages for one another. We've found this strategy to be very effective in helping students develop all six dimensions of fluency when acquiring a new language.

Additionally, web-based platforms such as Vocaroo afford similar opportunities to record audio. With this tool, students can download their recording, link to a QR code, or share via email and social networks. Students can also use programs like Spreaker or Audacity to add music and sound effects. The spectrum of podcast creations can be as basic or as "fancified" as a student would like it to be.

As we mentioned in an earlier post in this series, empower student voice by providing an audience. Student podcasts can be catalogued and utilized by fellow classmates to reinforce concepts. Beyond that, the CCSS and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) bring uniformity and consistency in terms of grade-level expectations. Consider posting podcasts on websites, blogs, or social media so students can share their work with others around the world!

ThingLink

ThingLink is a phenomenal tool that takes storytelling to a whole new level: an image or video becomes the canvas for students to create interactive media. Students start with an image as the foundation and add links to videos, content, audio, maps, and additional images to construct a multimodal story. ThingLink contains interactive hotspots for viewers to click to explore more around a given topic.

Asking students to create using ThingLink provides them an opportunity to employ comprehension, writing, and listening skills in a virtual context. Students must strategically select and embed elements that help facilitate their story. Perhaps it's a map that becomes interactive with content related to a series of battles, or the area's history of colonization, coupled with music and art of a particular era. Maybe students researching an author are able to embed tidbits of information about that author's life and writing. Teachers can even use this tool as a way to organize resources for units by providing an interactive experience through an image or video.

A Final Word

Our Literacy in the Digital Age series is a call for educators to leverage digital tools to empower students and transform teaching and learning -- in your classroom and THEIR world.

Let us know if you try out these or any of the other tools mentioned in the series via the comments below. Or reach out to us on Twitter to share your story: @NatalieFranzi and @SteveFigurelli

And finally, don't forget to join our class on Remind to continue the learning. Text @4TCHrs to 81010 from your mobile device to join Digital Tools for TCHrs, and receive notifications about a new digital tool every week during the school year -- starting next week!
Natalie Franzi is part of the Middletown Township Public School leadership team as an Elementary Supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction. She has previously taught middle school reading and special education in an inclusive elementary setting. Natalie is involved in EDCampNJ, EDCamp Jersey Shore, EDCamp Leadership, NJ/PA ECET2, and NJASCD. She is also a Student Achievement Partner Core Advocate and Google Educator. Follow her on Twitter: @NatalieFranzi. Steve Figurelli serves as a Supervisor of Elementary Education with the Public Schools of Edison Township in New Jersey, overseeing the district's K-5 Science and Gifted & Talented programs. In addition to his work at the local level, Figurelli also serves on Remind's Teacher Advisory Board, is a guest contributor for ASCD, is a co-author of StuVoice.org's Student Voice In A Box, co-organizer of EdTechNJ, and is a member of the steering committee for the NJ/PA Elevating and Celebrating Effective Teaching and Teachers (ECET2) conference. Follow him on Twitter: @SteveFigurelli.

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A group of students is working at the Project Center in Washington, D. C., on their IQP (Interactive Qualifying Project). Their project involves designing methods to analyze and mediate metropolitan area sidewalks for Montgomery County, Maryland. They spent a lot of time in the field looking at the sidewalks and learning about the stresses they receive, how engineers deal with those things and what the public's perceptions are of sidewalk conditions. They now have a completed format for diagnosing problems, creating a database, and potentially correcting problems. The last part of their mission is to determine how to educate municipal employees in the use of these tools. This dialogue is a discussion among the four project students: Vince (Junior, Mechanical Engineering major), Adam (Junior, Computer Science), Rebecca (Senior, Biology and Biotechnology), and Kenny (Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering). They are trying to decide how best to teach the municipal employees.

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Based on the role play identify what learning style each student represents/prefers and then discuss how you might focus your own teaching and curricula to accommodate these different learning styles. Provide specific examples of how this might be done in classes that you plan to teach this coming year. After a period of group discussion one designee will report out to the larger group on your results and conclusions. Larger group discussion will follow these presentations.

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Vince. Believes that showing maps of where the various sidewalks in various states of decay are would be good. He also wants to use a flow chart to represent the whole repair process. People can only really figure out what something means if they can visualize it using a symbolic model or representation. He also thinks it would probably make sense to come up with some sort of graph that shows a cost/benefit type curve relating to sidewalk use, disrepair, and the need to fix the sidewalks. Maybe a computer instruction guide would be something the employees would make good use of.

Adam. Really feels a need to talk to the group of employees. He thinks that the IQP group could basically sit down and present them with all the necessary information to run the database and make the necessary decisions. Perhaps it would be a good idea to have a question and answer session where the IQP group would serve as "experts" to attempt to answer questions about the system that the employees might have. While he thinks that it is probably necessary to provide some sort of manual on the material, he really doesn't feel that most people would use it, or get very much out of it.

Rebecca. She has already begun work on an extensive manual. She thinks that there should be something available to read on the computer as well, but can't imagine delivering the product to the employees without giving them a lot of background information in a loose-leaf binder. That way they will be able to add more notes about the system as they go along, and could try to make some sense out of all the confusing information that the project team and their on-site advisors are going to be talking to them about in various seminars.

Kenny. Kenny is really keen on putting together a multimedia presentation about the project and providing the employees with a CD that has all the "bells and whistles" and also allows them to link to interactive web sites about structural concrete. However, he really feels that the employees will not get the full understanding about what it is they need to do without a demonstration of the database and diagnostic tools. He thinks the whole thing would go down a lot better if they would take the employees into the field and show them some of the sidewalks that they used to model their project. Alternatively, the employees could be shown pictures of actual sidewalks in the various stages of sidewalk disrepair to give them a concrete idea of what they are dealing with.

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Rebecca: I don't know what the rest of you think, but I think it's really important to produce something concrete that the municipal employees can refer to, both for training right away and for their future reference. Like they won't have a clue about what we've designed or all the work we've done, so we need to have something in writing that all the people involved in this work can read. I've already started working on a draft manual, and I'm thinking it should be available both in hard copy and on the web. There's so much to cover that we'll never be able to go over everything in a training exercise anyway, so this manual will be our lasting contribution to the County.

Adam: I don't know, Becca. How many people really read manuals anyway? The ones I've seen never get used and are hard to read and understand. I think it will be better to just sit down with all the employees who will be involved in using our format and the database and talk them through it. We should go over each question on the format, what information we are trying to collect, and explain how the data get plugged into the database. After we've gone over the whole system once, then we can get them to ask any questions they have about what we said. I suppose having a manual to read will look good. I mean our advisors and WPI will want something like that, and the Municipal big wigs will have something to show for all the work we've done, but the bottom line is we've got to talk them through what we've designed or they'll never get it. Don't you think so, Vince?

Vince: Yeah, we've got to have something to show for all of our work, but it can't just be a lot of words. How can you understand the problems with sidewalks unless you know where they are and what would need to be done to repair them? Words just won't cut it. We need to include a flow chart to demonstrate each step in the evaluation and repair process. And then we should have detailed maps of where all of the sidewalks are, indicating which ones are in each stage of disrepair. Also we need diagrams of how our database is designed and lots of graphs showing how our data can be analyzed. You know, using the samples that we collected in Silver Spring, Wheaton and Bethesda. The cost-benefit stuff is what the Municipal guys really like, and using graphs to display the data is really a cool way to do that. I mean how will they know when it's time to repair the sidewalks unless they know the economics of the whole thing?

Kenny: Look. What we really have to do is take these guys out to the streets and show them exactly what we are talking about, have them fill out our format right then and there while we are there to answer questions and then take them back to the office and help them plug the data right into our database. Talking about it won't work and even pictures in a manual may not give them a full idea about how to use our system. We've got to demonstrate it to them by having them try it out, right from collecting the info on the street to plugging it into the database to analyzing the data to produce graphs and stuff. Rather than a manual, even if it's on the web, I think a CD with all of this stuff on it would be the way to go. I know it will be extra work, but it should be really fun putting it together using a digital video camera and all that. That way training can be done by just playing the CD. We could have a lot of cool sound effects and visuals to make it fun and keep people from falling asleep, and we should make it so that every trainee can ask it questions and get answers back. You know, really interactive so that each employee can try it out.

Rebecca: A CD will be LOTS of extra work, and besides how can a CD answer all of the questions that come up? If we produce a manual, we can try to be really comprehensive so that there is always be a place to go when a problem arises. Besides, you know Prof. Verybright. He loves everything to be in writing. We're sure to get an "A" if we give him a manual.

Adam: A manual doesn't help us with our final oral presentation, and we need to have something we can present to our sponsor in person. I still think the easiest way to get through this is to sit down with everyone and talk them through it. After we have done that, maybe a manual can be produced, but without discussing it with everyone, how do we know what needs to be in the manual? A CD might be cool, but do we have time for that?

Kenny: We still have three weeks before we have to submit our Final Report, and if we can convince our Liaison Ms. Chatty that a CD would be the best way to go, then we can get her and her staff to help us with it. After all, it's for them to use later on. I'm no good at teaching anyway, so a CD gets around that. Besides aren't we supposed to be introducing new technologies to this place? Isn't that what WPI is all about?

Vince: I think a CD is fine, but let's be realistic. A manual with lots of maps, charts, graphs, diagrams and stuff like that is almost as good, and it will take a lot less work and accomplish the same thing. If we spend all of our time on a CD, we won't have time to finish our Final Report, not to mention prepare for our Final Presentation. I don't know about you, but I actually had plans to go to the movies and a rock concert at RFK stadium before we leave DC.

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Reading - Pre-Intermediate | esl-lounge Student

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British Council

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English reading skills practice | LearnEnglish Teens - British Council

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Practise your reading skills with our activities, online exercises and worksheets.

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Comprehension 2

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Upper intermediate reading comprehension exercises esl

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Comprehension

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DICTATION

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Dictations - Listen Carefully!

You have reached the Dictations section of Busy Teacher. Here you can see 47 free worksheets to use in your classes. When you find one that is appropriate for your students, simply download and print these ready to use activities. This dictation worksheet, for example, has a gap fill exercise and the teaching materials for an activity that will help students practice listening and writing. It also can be used as a review of letter structure. Due to its content, you can use this worksheet when you discuss politely accepting and declining invitations too. For additional practice, just have students check the answers aloud as a class. You may be covering a different topic but there are other worksheets to check out and you can save this one for an appropriate time.
Dictation is being used less frequently in ESL classrooms but it can be an excellent way for students to practice listening and writing. You can use these exercises to test spelling of specific vocabulary words and the punctuation of target structures. When combined with reading and speaking exercises, you will have a lesson that appeals to all different types of learners.

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You have reached the Dictations section of Busy Teacher. Here you can see 47 free worksheets to use in your classes. When you find one that is appropriate for your students, simply download and print these ready to use activities.

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FIND AND CORRECT ERRORS

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Language errors - analysis and correction exercises.

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Simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities

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PIZZAZ, Creative Writing & Storytelling, Opp-Beckman

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Description for this website: Simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with printable handouts for: Poetry | Fiction | Bag of Tricks. ESOL student level: These activities scale well to beginner through advanced level proficiency and can be used with all ages. For more activities: Return to PIZZAZ!

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PARTS OF A SENTENCE

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Writing Tips: Sentence Builder - WritingDEN

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WRITING ACTIVITIES- WORD MIX-UP

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ESL, English as a Second Language exercises, word scramble exercise.

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MIXED-UP SENTENCES

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ESL, English as a Second Language exercises, common phrases grammar exercise.

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EVERYDAY SITUATIONS

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Practise written English: information and varied exercises on idioms, grammatical structures and spelling - Learning English Online

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TEXT RECONSTRUCTION

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Short writing practice and tasks

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ESL Writing Worksheets, Lessons, Sample Essays, Error Correction, and Printable Ebooks

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ESL Writing Exercises and Printable Lessons: Transition worksheets, ESL writing activities, error correction worksheets, and much more!

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Reading PRACTICE

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Reading - Intermediate | esl-lounge Student

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Exercise 2

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Comprehension Activities

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Short texts with reading comprehension exercises for intermediate level esl. Free interactive reading exercises online to learn English

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Reading Exercises

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Reading comprehension exercises - intermediate level

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Texts with reading comprehension exercises. Lower intermediate level. Free interactive reading exercises online to learn English

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Reading comprehension exercises - beginners level esl

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Reading comprehension exercises for beginners level esl. Free interactive reading exercises online to learn English

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Varied Reading comprehension exercises

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Pre-intermediate reading comprehension exercises. Free interactive reading exercises online elementary level esl

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Reading comprehension exercises

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Reading - Elementary | esl-lounge Student

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Comprehension

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Reading comprehension exercises - elementary level

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Short texts with easy reading comprehension exercises for elementary level esl. Free interactive reading exercises online to learn English

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Filling IN the gaps

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Advanced reading comprehension exercises - activities

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Advanced reading comprehension exercises and activities. Free interactive reading exercises online to learn English

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Exercises

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Reading comprehension exercises - easy texts 1 - elementary level

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Short texts with easy reading comprehension exercises. Free interactive reading exercises online to learn English

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EXERCISES 2

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Advanced reading comprehension exercises esl

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Advanced reading comprehension activities esl. Free interactive reading exercises online to learn English

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UPPER-INTERMEDIATE EXERCISES 3

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Upper intermediate reading comprehension exercises online

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Upper intermediate reading comprehension exercises online for esl. Free interactive reading exercises online to learn English

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Grammar and Writing

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Contents of The Internet Grammar of English

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Upper intermediate reading comprehension exercises esl. Free interactive reading exercises online to learn English

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Advanced reading comprehension exercises 1

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Advanced reading comprehension exercises for esl. Free interactive reading exercises online to learn English