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With the changing demographics in the United States, our role as ESL teachers is constantly changing and growing. This blog is meant to provide other high school ESL teachers with ideas and suggestions for teaching our students, particularly about how to integrate reading, writing, speaking, and listening into our lessons. This is a place to share experiences and find new resources for your classroom, so please share what you have found useful from this site or from your own experiences in the secondary setting. This will help ESL teachers new and old to keep up-to-date on activities, methodologies, and issues in this field.

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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Skillswise Website

This BBC website has reading, writing, grammar, listening, spelling, and vocabulary tutorials.  It also has tutorials for a few basic topics in math.  Within each one you can find fact sheets, worksheets, and quizzes for various topics that are fairly straightforward and easy to follow along with.  If I used this with students, I would choose specific tutorials for them to work through.

For example, there is a Game under the Reading tab that has students summarize an audio recording of a vacation.  As students listen, they can type notes in a provided box (to practice summarizing), and easily print it straight from the site.  I would look for specific activities like this that would interest and challenge students.

You can find this website in my Resources list or you can click here.   

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