Category: Conference Highlights

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Feb'19

Five Interactive Activities to Debrief a Text

Reading is an excellent way for students to grow their language skills. Having just the right activity to help students access the text on an even deeper level can not only expand your students’ learning but also create engagement and make learning fun. Check out these five activities to help you do this.

09

Dec'18

CATESOL Conference Reflections: Part I

Jessica Aggrey

The annual CATESOL conference is a professional development event for ESL educators in California and Nevada. I attended this weekend and will summarize some tidbits I learned about critical thinking and also vocabulary strategies.

19

Nov'18

Close Reading Folders

Jessica Aggrey

Get your students to work together to unpack and better understand key passages from a text you’re working on in class with this close reading group activity.

11

Jul'18

The Parking Lot: A Place for Untimely Questions

Jessica Aggrey

As teachers, we need to stay on task for the sake of the whole class while still making sure all of our students feel that they’re heard and their questions, unrelated as they may be, are important. Check out this simple, yet effective, way to put unrelated questions on hold without forgetting them.

19

Jun'18

A Dinner Party: Creative Analysis Activity

Jessica Aggrey

Help your students build analysis of multiple sources with this engaging activity that uses art to help students draw connections between multiple readings.

15

Jun'18

The Accelerated Instructional Cycle

Jessica Aggrey

The accelerated instructional cycle is a way to approach an integrated reading and writing course to help students gain a deep understanding of texts and work to write complex and rich writing assignments.

14

Jun'18

Learning is Confusion Figured Out

Jessica Aggrey

How can we design ESL curriculum that is relevant and engaging to students? Check out this post for some ideas.

12

Jun'18

5 Collaborative Class Routines

Jessica Aggrey

Are you looking for some engaging ways to get your ESL students to work collaboratively? Check out these five ways to get students working and talking together.

22

May'18