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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL:





Infographic: “Second Language Acquisition, By The Numbers”
by noahsmith. Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually. by HuffPost Partner

What Is One Thing You Learned About Writing Today?
I’ve previously The Best Questions To Use For Class Closing Activities — What Are Yours? and have done a much better job this year at using them than I’ve done in the past. And I’ve also seen how valuable they have been to both students and to me. In my ninth-grade English class, students completed writing an essay on the last day prior to Thanksgiving break. Their closing question was “What did


Video: What Astronauts Eat On Thanksgiving
I’m adding this video to The Best Sites To Learn & Teach About Thanksgiving:


Just Sent-Out Free Monthly Email Newsletter
I’ve just mailed out the December issue of my simple free monthly email newsletter. It has about 2,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here.
November’s Best Posts From This Blog
I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (more recent lists can be found here). Here are some of the posts I personally think are the best, and most helpful, ones I’ve written during this pas

November’s “The Best…” Lists — There Are Now 1,207 Of Them
Here’s my monthly round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,207 of them categorized here): The Best Ways To Modify The Picture Word Inductive Model For ELLs The Best Videos Of Tom Lehrer’s Songs The Best Sites For Learning About Italy The Best Sites For Learning About France The Best Online Resources About President John F. Kennedy The Best Resources For Geography A


Two Excellent Thanksgiving Resources
Here are two excellent additions to The Best Sites To Learn & Teach About Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving created by ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ author — not the Pilgrims is by Valerie Strauss at The Washington Post. Thanksgiving, or how to eat American politics:The democratic ideals behind turkey, pie, and the rest of our holiday feast is a great interactive at The Boston Globe. It shows how each tr

“My Best Posts On Parent Engagement In 2013″
I’m kicking-off my annual “Best” lists with My Best Posts On Parent Engagement In 2013 over at my other blog, Engaging Parents In School. You’ll see many more lists over the next thirty days. You might also be interested in All My “Best Of 2013 – So Far” Lists In One Place, which collect my mid-year posts….


11-26-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “What Are The Unique Challenges Facing Male Teachers?”What Are The Unique Challenges Facing Male Teachers? is the new “question-of-the-week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave your responses in the comments there or here….by Larry Ferlazzo / 12min 11-25-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Te