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Ending My First Philly School Year with a Dose of Cool!
I know it’s been a long time since I’ve mentioned anything school-related, but I’ve had a nice end to my first school year here in Philadelphia and I want to share… This is an image painted on the wall outside of my classroom. It was designed and painted by my former student, Tamara Vidal. The school I work in currently is quite different from the school I used to teach at in New York. When I…
English Land Textbooks
English Grammar for Kids
English Grammar for Kids, how can you teach it?
I feel the English Land series of textbooks does a good job of teaching grammar through context. Plus this series of books draws the children in with the use of popular Disney characters. Disney is very popular in Japan.
While I feel English Land is weaker in teaching phonics than a textbook series like Finding Out, it makes…
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Reading for Real: Storybooks in the classroom
Reading for Real: Storybooks in the classroom
by Sophia McMillan
(Shane Training Centre, Japan)
There are two ways to view reading in the younger learner classroom: learning to read and reading to learn.
Reading to learn involves target language and structures, which form part of the curriculum: for example the dialogue page of a textbook or unscrambling words or sentences. These activities are…
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Everything you Need for Teaching Phonics
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Games
Learn Through Play Card Games
Phonics 1, Phonics 2, Phonics Families 1, Phonics Families 2
The children play a wide variety of games and learn phonics while playing
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Switchit
Switchit Junior, Regular Switchit
Learn phonics while playing UNO games
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Dave…
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Extensive Reading: What is it?
Extensive Reading: What is it?
Saturday, June 9th. 2018 Time: 2PM-4PM (Doors open at 1:30)
Where:
Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Library (Near Nishi-Kokubunji Station)
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Contact: [email protected]
Cost: Free to JALT members. Non-members 1,000 Yen
RSVP: Reserve your Seat!
Abstract:
In this presentation, Dr. Boon will outline his experience of implementing ER programs at Japanese universities. He will describe an ER…
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PJ Nichols has Published his novel, Puzzled
An exciting announcement from P.J. Nichols (Most of you probably know me as Peter/Pete/Petey):
I have published my first novel!
The book title is “Puzzled” – it’s a cool adventure story about a group of junior high school kids. (While writing it, I imagined it being a combination of “Harry Potter,” “Goonies,” and “Indiana Jones.”) I wrote it for an audience of preteens/teenagers, but I’m sure…
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