How to Read Your Way to Foreign Language Fluency in 30 Days or Less
The Four Basic English Language Skills
As any well-versed English or other foreign language teacher knows there are four basic skills to most foreign languages. These are reading, writing, listening and speaking. You might note that I just said “most [...]
Teaching Ideas For the First Day of School
By Tonia Lee
As teachers eye their empty classrooms the day before school starts where not a creature is stirring and hopefully not a mouse, teachers are filled with anticipation about what they will get for the upcoming school year. Will they get a group of students that will [...]
Annabel Lee-by Edgar Allen Poe
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
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Lesson Plans-Grades 3–5-Blending Fiction and Nonfiction to Improve Comprehension and Writing Skills by Stephanie Affinito, Glens Falls, New York
Overview
This lesson supports the use of a text set (paired fiction and nonfiction texts on a similar topic) to increase student interest in and understanding of content area material and to develop critical writing skills. The [...]
