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STUDENTS: You can read the full text, listen to a recording of the text, do an online comprehension activity, download or print extra practice activities, and click on links to learn more about the topic. Click on 'Read More'.

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7 Steps to a Language Rich Interactive Classroom

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Based on the book by John Seidlitz & Bill Perryman

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giving kids the gift of academic language

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VirtuEL 2020 begins with our keynote presenter, acclaimed author, blogger and educator, Larry Ferlazzo!

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Carol Salva and her guests explore ways to empower language learners and the teachers who teach them. We're not just closing gaps, we're growing leaders.

Carol Salva and her guests explore ways to empower language learners and the teachers who teach them. We're not just closing gaps, we're growing leaders.

Very empowering!

I love listening to this playlist anytime I feel defeated. It gives me so many ideas to try and share with my colleagues.

Teacher

I love this podcast when you get those episodes that offer serious teaching tips and information. Unfortunately, it is sometimes just a looooong commercial for someone trying to sell a book, or a bunch of people fan-girling over one another.

I love this podcast

Brand new to the ELL world (as a literacy tutor) and I am learning SO much from Carol Salva.

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‎Boosting Achievement: The ESL Podcast on Apple Podcasts

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Carol Salva and her guests explore ways to empower language learners and the teachers who teach them. We're not just closing gaps, we're growing leaders.

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Aims to help students and children to memorize English vocabulary in an easy and efficient way by using images, pronunciation and games. Free and Fun!

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Graphic Organizers & Templates - Literacy - Reading

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This is my personal channel so there is a mix of things here. Videos specific to education are linked at bit.ly/SalvaBlog

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The Education Research Reading Room (ERRR Podcast) brings together passionate teachers and educators with inspiring education researchers and thought leaders for engaging and informative discussion on key issues in the education space. Each episode we contact a prominent figure in the education landscape and ask them 'If every teacher and educator in the world could spend an hour reading your work, what would you want them to read?'. Interested teachers and educators then read this piece in preparation for a live event with the author to discuss and explore the topic in more depth. The subsequent conversation becomes the Education Research Reading Room Podcast (ERRR Podcast).

The Education Research Reading Room (ERRR Podcast) brings together passionate teachers and educators with inspiring education researchers and thought leaders for engaging and informative discussion on key issues in the education space. Each episode we contact a prominent figure in the education landscape and ask them 'If every teacher and educator in the world could spend an hour reading your work, what would you want them to read?'. Interested teachers and educators then read this piece in preparation for a live event with the author to discuss and explore the topic in more depth. The subsequent conversation becomes the Education Research Reading Room Podcast (ERRR Podcast).

Simply Awesome

Interesting and engaging guests share their lived professional knowledge and experiences through the skilled hand of a well-researched host, Oliver. Oliver's education podcast is one of the best across the globe. A must for all teacher professional learning networks.

Immensely Informative Podcast for Educators

Host Ollie Lovell does a fantastic job interviewing key people of influence in the fields of education and cognitive science. Being an Australian based podcast, ERRR is extremely relevant to Australian teachers!

Best Australian based educational podcast

This is a fantastic podcast that is well researched and explores areas of teaching that are both important and relevant. The guests are leaders in their field and Olly clearly spends a lot of time researching to ask the best questions for them to answer. There is no filler and his execution is confident and engaging. A must for all educators

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ollie lovell: secondary school teacher and lover of learning. passionate about all things eduction. @ollie_lovell

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‎Education Research Reading Room on Apple Podcasts

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‎The Education Research Reading Room (ERRR Podcast) brings together passionate teachers and educators with inspiring education researchers and thought leaders for engaging and informative discussion on key issues in the education space. Each episode we contact a prominent figure in the education land...

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Marzano's Six Step Process

In "Building Academic Vocabulary" (Marzano, 2004), Marzano outlines a comprehensive approach to learing the context specific academic vocabulary, or the brick words that students encounter in their reading. The first three steps help us introduce new terms during the frist lesson; the last three steps help students practice & reinforce those terms over time.

Remember: Describe, Describe, Draw, Do, Discuss, Play

Step 1: Describe - Instead of a standard definition, teachers give students a description or explanation of the word or term using examples and visuals. The goal is to appeal to learners of ALL types in order to help them understand new vocabulary.

Step 2: Describe - Students are asked to give their own description or explanation using their own words. By listening/reading student descriptions/explanations, we can assess mastery or provide help. Students record descriptions in their personal notebooks to reference later.

Step 3: Draw - Students draw representations of the new vocabulary word/term. Acceptable ways to complete this task include: drawing pictures, designing symbols, making graphics, creating cartoons, finding a visual on Internet or magazine. This can be done individually or in groups.

Step 4: Do - Give students more practice using new vocabulary words/terms. Have them participate in activities such as: identifying prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms, related words and additional visuals.

Step 5: Discuss - Students discuss words/terms as they work with/in partners, triads or groups. This conversation is more effective when structured. Monitoring discussions clears up any confusion students may have.

Step 6: Play - Students participate in games that reinforce deep understanding or new vocabulary words/terms. Examples of games include: Jeopardy, Wordo (like Bingo), Charades, Pictionary, Scrabble, etc...

If you like what you see be sure to follow along with #SiglerNation on Twitter. You can follow Matt Arend on Facebook and Twitter.

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TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

Join us on Thursday, December 7 for a look at scaffolded materials that provide extra literacy support while building key social studies concepts and skills.

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Current event and general interest articles are a wonderful resource for students. They can be used for researching a topic, staying informed on what's happening in the news, pleasure reading, and more.

In the past I have shared some creative ways to use online articles as part of technology activities for student creativity and reading comprehension. For example:

Additionally Google recently added a new lesson to their Applied Digital Skills curriculum called " Annotate Text in Google Docs". This activity covers how to take an article, copy and paste it into Google Docs, and then make digital notes to understand the article using comments, highlighting, tables, and more.

One big question, however, is where to find good articles. Over the years I have come across many excellent resources for articles that are written specifically for students. See below for my current list of these sites.

Student Article Websites

Below is a list of useful websites that provide current event and general interest articles for students. Many of these sites provide additional resources such as:

Articles written at multiple reading levels (Lexile levels)

Quizzes over the article content

Discussion questions or writing prompts

Options for students to leave comments on the articles

Audio versions of the articles

All of these sites are free, although some may require you to register to log in, or to provide your students with a code to access the articles. Some of the sites also have paid versions with additional features, but all provide at least access to the articles at no cost.
This list is certainly not complete, so please feel free to share your suggestions in the comments below for additional sources for articles that should be added.

Note: The list is arranged alphabetically, not by order of preference.

#1 - CommonLit
Website - https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts
This site has a free collection of fiction and nonfiction for 3rd-12th grade classrooms, searchable by lexile, grade, theme, genre, literary device, or common core standard.

#2 - DOGOnews
Website - https://www.dogonews.com
Current event articles covering news, science, social studies, world events, environment, sports, and more.

#3 - KidsPost
Website - https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/
This site is from the Washington Post, with articles specifically written for students.

#4 - KiwiKids News
Website - https://kiwikidsnews.co.nz/
This site is from New Zealand but provides excellent articles on world events as well as general interest topics.

#5 - Learn With News
Website - https://learnwithnews.com/
Current event articles, each written at three different reading levels, including resources for difficult words, activities, vocabulary practice, conversation questions, and more.

#6 - NY Times Article of the Day
Website - https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/learning-article-of-the-day
This site takes one New York Times article per day and pairs it with detailed questions for pre-reading, discussion, and writing.

#7 - News For Kids
Website - https://newsforkids.net
Daily updated with articles covering world news, science, sports, arts, and more.

#8 - Newsela
Website - https://newsela.com
This is one of the best known sites for student articles, with each article written at five different reading levels.

#9 - ReadWorks
Website - https://www.readworks.org/
Thousands of passages including articles, paired texts, fiction and nonfiction, and more.

#10 - Science News for Students
Website - https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org
Science, health and technology news stories and features, aimed at readers 9 to 14 years old.

#11 - Student Daily News
Website - https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/
Content for students including a daily news article, world events, editorials, and more,

#12 - Teaching Kids News
Website - http://teachingkidsnews.com/
This site provides current event news articles for students in grades 2 through 8, along with thinking questions and discussion prompts.

#13 - Time for Kids
Website - https://www.timeforkids.com/
News and articles from Time, written for students K through 6th grade. Some articles include versions in multiple reading levels.

#14 - TweenTribune
Website - http://tweentribune.com
Each article is written at four different reading levels so the content can be used K-12.

#15 - Wonderopolis
Website - http://wonderopolis.org
This site has a new article posted each day answering an intriguing question.

#16 - Youngzine
Website - http://youngzine.org
This site is updated weekly with news articles aimed at upper elementary through high school students.

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This channel features video summaries and discussion of articles, activities, terms, and various topics related to language pedagogy. From classic SLA studies to book chapters, Dr. Florencia Henshaw will give you the gist of it and her own take on it. Created by a language educator for language educators.

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Information overload occurs when decision-makers face a level of information greater than their ability to process. The phenomenon dates back to medieval times, but 2 innovations rapidly accelerated it: Gutenberg's printing and the rise of information technology.

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