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A different way to improve your English: Read/Write Poetry

06 Thursday Apr 2017

Posted by Alison Sattler in English Learners' Page, Lessons_Intermediate Level

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Adult Literacy, English Learners' Page, English Lesson Activities, ESL, ESOL, writing skills

Learn English through poetry!  Open the poetry sites below to read and/or contribute your own poems.

Poems By Heart uses brain-training techniques to make remembering poetry easy and fun—in a fast and responsive game. Each poem features two new and exclusive dramatic readings, and all-new original art. Improve your English by practicing with poem activities.


Poetry Foundation

With the Poetry Foundation’s universal  app, you can now take thousands of poems by classic and contemporary poets with you wherever you go.
* Search for old favorites with memorable lines.
* Give your device a shake to discover new poems to fit any mood.
* Save your favorite poems to read and share later—through Facebook, Twitter, or e-mail.


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ReadWriteThink’s  mobile apps for poetry can be used to write different kinds of poems such as acrostic, diamante, haiku and theme. They can be really helpful for children and beginner level adult students as they can create their poems very easily with the given words.  My favorite app is Word Mover.


downloadPoetry everywhere is a program run by Poetry foundation. It’s possible to download iPhone app or you can visit their website to read and listen to the poems of great poets.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/


poetry creatorEver wonder what it would be like to mash-up a Shakespeare poem with a Hip Hop Song? Poetry Creator/Verses is a new iPhone and iPad app that puts a fresh spin on a cherished classic: refrigerator magnet poetry.

Source: A different way to improve your English : Poetry Apps | English In Life

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Training Series from New American Horizons

03 Wednesday Feb 2016

Posted by Alison Sattler in Teacher Education

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Adult Literacy, EFL, ESOL, TESOL

New American Horizons offers free training videos for English language teachers, tutors and volunteers working with literate and non-literate, adult English language learners.

American HorizonsSource: Titles in the Series – New American Horizons

Applying Second Language Acquisition Theories

19 Thursday Nov 2015

Posted by Alison Sattler in Teacher Education, Teachers' Page

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Adult Literacy, ESL, ESOL, TEFL, TESOL

The websites below are invaluable educational resources for language teachers and even teachers in general.  I hope you find them as useful for you as they are for me!

Bilash’s Success-Guided Language Instructional Model (B-SLIM)
Dr. Olenka Bilash’s B-SLIM instructional method incorporates scaffolding (graduated skill-building) at each phase of a lesson or series of lessons for both self-directed and instruction-based adult learning styles. Professor Bilash’s website offers a plethora of useful teaching tools, which can be accessed through her “The Tree: Linking Theory and Practice” page or by topic on her navigation bar.

Krashen’s 6 Hypotheses
Dr. Stephen Krashen proposes that adults learn a new language faster when they can use what they’re learning–or plan to use it.   This and Dr. Krashen’s website outline the following hypotheses: Acquisition-Learning, Monitor Natural Order, Input, Affective Filter, and Reading/Comprehension.  His latest article, “The End of Motivation” (Krashen S. New Routes 55: 34-35, 2015), is a great summary of his overall perspective toward how people learn best.

Building Strong Relationships with Learners

05 Thursday Nov 2015

Posted by Alison Sattler in Teacher Education, Teachers' Page

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Adult Literacy, ESL, ESOL

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Adult Basic Education Instructor Kate Nonesuch’s mission is to share “everything she knows” before she retires.  After reviewing her “Working in Adult Literacy” blog, I truly hope she never retires from working on her blog!  Ms. Nonesuch’s thought-provoking essays, educational videos, links to other resources, and words of wisdom are definitely worth preserving and passing on to other teachers.
In her Building Strong Relationships with Learners blog, Ms. Nonesuch gives teachers five strategies for building strong relationships with their adult students:teaching adult literacy

Listen, Really Listen
Yes Means Yes
Make Your Teaching Transparent
Say How You Feel
Refuse to Give Advice

Note: The article from which her blogs derived is at right.  To open this article, click on the publication’s icon.

To learn more about this amazing woman, please go to: http://katenonesuch.com/about-kate-nonesuch/

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