Common Lit

CommonLit has over 2000 leveled reading passages for grades 3-12. You can download the passages as PDF or assign them directly to students. Browse by content type, grade level, lexile range, genre, theme and more.  To see the website click here.

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What Does It Mean to Ask ‘How Does Ukrainian Compare with Russian?’

Happy Valentines Day but there are more important things to discus.  Do you want WWIII?  Then you better pay attention to the BS that is happening on Ukraine's border.  Putin is just a KGB strongman that knows only how to bully.  What he does not realize is that Ukraine's will have the last laugh.  Maybe not today or tomorrow but we will.  We are not Rusky and we speak Ukrainian.  When we lost Crimea to the Russians the world sat by twiddling their fingers saying lots of things but doing nothing.  Sounds like the same thing is happening again.  Getting to the education aspect of my rant is to know something about the Slavik languages.  If you teach a World Issues or Current Events class please read  about this  by clicking  here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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Sentence Navigators

 

If you are teaching E.L.L. or E.S.L. students then this article might help you out.    To see the article click here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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Indigenous Speakers

According to Google Earth "A shared language is one of the most important connections among groups of people. Not only does it create a sense of kinship, but it promotes a shared worldview through unique vocabulary and traditional sayings and songs. Yet many of the world’s 7,000 languages are in danger of disappearing; according to the United Nations 2,680 Indigenous languages are at risk."

To learn more watch the video and click here.

Conversation Jenga for Language Classes

Click here for a link to site about using Jenga to help students work on their conversational Spanish but it could easily be used in your French class.   As promised the explanation for the problem on Friday is that 2581 has two circles in it and therefore the answer is two.

15 Ways to add culture to your Spanish class

If you would like to add some culture to your Spanish class you might want to read the article by clicking here.    You might also want to click on the "Home" link on this website to see all the other articles on Secondary Spanish Space.

Canada and Immigrant Students

The PBS Newhour aired the following documentary about teaching immigrants in the Canadian school system titled "What the US could learn from Canada about integrating immigrant students"

From the PBS site "In Canadian public schools, the children of new immigrants do as well as native-born children within three years of arriving. There kids don't just get language and academic support; their home cultures are celebrated as they are integrated into classes. And strong social services and healthy education funding help too."

The Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic

If you are teaching a course that involves the Inuit you might want to look at the website "The Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic".  Keir Clarke describes the website as "an Esri story map about the peoples who have lived in the Arctic for millennia. It looks at where indigenous populations live in the Arctic, where indigenous languages are spoken and the regions of the six Permanent Participants of the Arctic Council.

As well as exploring the different indigenous cultures and languages and where they live in the Arctic this story map looks at the history of colonialism in the Arctic and more recent attempts to establish the indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination. It includes a detailed look at the Arctic Council and how it operates."

To see the Indigenous Peoples of the Artic click here.

DuoLingo

DuoLingo is a do it yourself website that helps a student learn many languages such as French, Germany and Ukranina to name a few.  It is free and interactive.  There are many different levels and you can test out of a level rather than work through it.  If you are working in French, you will be asked to translate from French to English and English to French.  You will also be asked to write out in French some spoken phrases.  The lessons are organized in groups like the ones below.

 Duolingo is more like a game than a lesson.  To see the website click here.