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Sunday, May 25, 2014

5-25-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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








Even More Memorial Day Resources
Here are more new additions to The Best Websites For Learning About Memorial Day: The First Memorial Day is by Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic. Memorial Day: 7 Historical Facts About the Holiday is from Live Science. American Memorial Day is by Wendi Pillars. 220,000 American flags posted at Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day is a video and article from a Virginia TV station.


How I Incorporate Reflection Into Semester Summative Assessments
I’ve previously posted a number of the semester final summative activities I’ll be having my students be doing during these final two-and-a-half weeks of school (you can see several of the different writing prompts that will be part of them if you scroll to the bottom of My Best Posts On Writing Instruction). In addition to those writing assignments, I always incorporate a number of reflective ac


Just Sent-Out Free Monthly Email Newsletter
I’ve just mailed out the June issue of my simple free monthly email newsletter. It has over 2,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here.
May’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


May’s “The Best” Lists — There Are Now Exactly 1,300 Of Them!
Here’s my monthly round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,300 of them categorized here): The Best Resources Discussing The Importance Of Art In Education — Help Me Find More The Best Commentaries On The 60th Anniversary Of Brown vs. Board Of Education The Best Commencement Speeches The Best Resources On The Kidnapped School Girls In Nigeria – Help Me Find More The


Dr. Walter Mischel, Creator Of Famous Marshmallow Test, Is Writing A Book
Dr. Walter Mischel, creator of the famous marshmallow test used by many of us in classroom lessons, is writing a book that will be published in September. It’s titled The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control. I’ve written many posts over the years about his work and how I apply it in the classroom. The first one was titled “I Like This Lesson Because It Make Me Have a Longer Temper” and you c




Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 5-24-14 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAYMay’s Best Tweets – Part FourEvery month I make a few short lists highlighting my choices of the best resources I through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. I’ve already shared in earlier posts several new resources I found on Twitter —