Here is a very informative video from one of my classmates on Web 2.0 Tools! Thanks, egcloyd! (For more, visit her blog http://egcloyd.wordpress.com/
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Explanation of WIDA Scores
So many teachers are confused by WIDA and how to interpret students’ scores. They have no idea what a 1.5 or 3.9 means in their classroom, and the Can-Do Descriptors can often be confusing and overwhelming. This prezi seeks to explain the basics of WIDA and the important modifications to use for each score level in the classroom.
WIDA Video Webinar: Amplified Standards
WIDA YouTube Video: How to Use the WIDA Standards
WIDA YouTube Video: 7 Key Questions about WIDA MODEL
Resource for Classroom Teachers of ELL Students
Provides easy to use information about how ELL students learn a new language and different strategies and techniques classroom teachers can use to better improve the performance of their ELL students.
ELT Resources: Commas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ARqUdCkdg You tube video to help fix run-ons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQfJdhyeQfU Video for older students
http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2013/03/run-on-sentence-examples-does-your-writing-go-on-and-on.html Resource to help with run-ons.
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/originals/3e/33/2f/3e332f0614acc0ea9099879f6cee0146.jpg Cute for a whiteboard
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/152207662379776118/ Comma Splices
Comma Anchor Chart
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Dont-Forget-the-Commas-926253 Comma Activity Bundle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3h42RWnCB0 Commas Rock
http://www.eds-resources.com/edcommas.htm Comma Lesson for older students
Pronunciation tales
The idea for today’s post comes from a rhyme that English teachers usually tell pupils to explain why in some words, when there are two vowels together, often (but not always!) the second vowel is silent. The rhyme goes like this: “when two vowels go a walking the first vowel does the talking“. For instance, in the word ‘rain’, the vowel ‘i’ is silent and we only pronounce the vowel ‘a’ /ei/.
I think this is a good technique for remembering pronunciation/spelling rules but I’m pretty bad at rhyming so I thought I’d try to come up with some tales instead. The tales below aim at helping students remembering some of the features of British pronunciation:
The R diaspora
Once upon a time, in an age long since forgotten, a tribe of Rs lived in what today is Britain and traded with the Kingdom of Vowels…
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ELT: Teaching Apostrophe YouTube Videos
Teaching Apostrophe Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOtMa2JyfXk Cute video for teaching
What It Takes (And Means) To Learn English As An Adult
This week at parent teacher conferences I had a father ask where he could go to learn English – after he continuously thanked me for teaching his son English. So sweet.
It's a Small World, After All. 
