Monday, June 2, 2014

6-2-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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







Very Useful World Cup Resources
Here are some very useful additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The 2014 World Cup In Brazil: How to teach … the World Cup 2014 is a treasure trove from The Guardian. Rio Grapples With Violence Against Police Officers as World Cup Nears is from The New York Times. World Cup Resources is from EFL Classroom 2.0


Long, But Well-Worth Viewing, Video: Ezra Klein Interviews Ta-Nehisi Coates
Over at Vox, Ezra Klein interviews Ta-Nehisi Coates about his article, “The Case for Reparations.” I’ve embedded the video below, but Vox has a nice interactive table of contents that might make it more useful — especially if you don’t have an hour to watch the whole thing. I’m adding it to A Collection Of Useful Posts, Articles & Videos On Race & Racism.

What A Great Idea! – “Use #edublogs to Share Your Best Posts”
Edublogs, my favorite blogging platform, has just made an announcement encouraging Edublogs users to tweet their favorite posts using the #edublogs hashtag on Twitter and they’ll share a number of them on Twitter. It’s a great way to get exposure for your posts (since, at this writing, Edublogs has over 31,000 followers). You can read all about it here. It’s somewhat similar to how the Teaching
“Teaching History By Not Giving ‘The Answers’”
Teaching History By Not Giving ‘The Answers’ is Part Two in my Ed Week series on teaching history. Today, Bruce Lesh, PJ Caposey, and Dave Orphal share their thoughts, and I’m also including comments from readers. Here are some excerpts:


Research Studies Of The Week
I often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature. By the way, you mi
My Latest NY Times Post For ELLs Is On Sentence & Paragraph Scrambles — Plus More!
My latest NY Times post for English Language Learners includes a sequencing interactive; ideas on how students and teachers can create their own; and a teaching idea for students to create persuasive essays for an authentic audience by coming up with school improvement ideas. You can see all forty-one of my previous NY Times posts — most which include student interactives, as well as teaching ide


6-1-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Ramadan ResourcesRamadan is a month-long observance by Muslims. The Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, so it changes in relation to the Gregorian calendar. Ramadan in 2014 will start on Saturday, June 28th and will continue for 30 days until Monday, July 28th. You might be interested in The Best Sites To Teach & Lear