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Sunday, July 27, 2014

7-27-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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







The Best Resources On Why Breakfast Is Important For Teenagers
© 2009 Jonathan Lin, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio I’m preparing some new lessons for this year, and one will be on the importance of breakfast. I’m adding this list to The Best Resources To Help Promote A Physically Healthy Lifestyle For Our Students. Let me know if you have other suggestions: Breakfast ‘keeps teenagers lean’ is from the BBC. A Better Breakfast Can Boost a Child’s Brainpower is

“Breaking News” Is An Engaging Tool For Reading…News
Breaking News is a current events news-reader designed in an intriguing way. You can type in whatever topic you want to read about — soccer, major news, refugees — and you’re provided with a list of headlines to stories about it. Clicking on the headlines will take you to the story. But the real interesting part of the site is that if you click on a globe icon on the upper right of the page, you’

The Best Resources To Help Promote A Physically Healthy Lifestyle For Our Students
© 2014 Juhan Sonin, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio I’ve published a fair amount number of posts about lessons and tools I use to help promote a physically healthy lifestyle for my students, including research that shows how essential it is for learning. I thought it would be useful to me, and to readers, if I tried to bring them all together in one post. First, I’ll start off with what I think are the
Still Looking For Student Project Ideas That Include Family Engagement
© 2010 Selena N. B. H., Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Earlier this year, I published The Best Student Projects That Need Family Engagement — Contribute Your Lessons! over at my parent engagement blog. I heard from a number of teachers sharing projects they have their students do that include some kind of specific family involvement, ranging from interviews to collecting bugs. You can read about them


Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 7-26-14 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAYJuly’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