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1. Week 1 - Tips for Starting Out Strong

   In: Creating a Positive Classroom Community Format(s): Text

   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we examine what teachers can do to create a positive learning environment!

2. Strategies to Support Comprehension in Early Literacy

   In: Teacher's Corner: Literacy Development for True Beginners Format(s): Text

   Focusing on comprehension with beginner-level students can seem challenging. When students are just beginning to learn how to read, it can feel overwhelming to add comprehension activities.

3. Objective Teaching Observations

   In: Teacher's Corner: Professional Development for Teacher Trainers Format(s): Text

   Teacher trainers are tasked with many responsibilities, but none cause as much stress for teachers and teacher trainers as evaluative observations.

4. Hot Potatoes Activity-Making Software

   In: Teacher's Corner: Technology Format(s): Text

   This week’s focus is Hot Potatoes, an online software used to create classroom activities.

5. Summative Assessments and Aligning Activities

   In: Teacher's Corner: Collecting and Using Data Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner focuses on options for summative assessment activities and rubrics.

6. Week 2 - In the News

   In: Teacher's Corner: Journalism Format(s): Text

   Here's some news! In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students practice journalism skills. This week’s activity allows students to learn the sections of a news story by writing about their interests.

7. Poems About Family and Friends

   In: Poetry Format(s): Text

   Poems about family and friends.

8. Spin One's Words

   In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This resource contains idioms related to time.

9. Film Circles: Scaffolding Speaking for EFL Students

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article describes action research that pre-service teachers conducted regarding successful communicative activities.

10. Writing for the Reader: A Problem-Solution Approach

    In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    A “how to” piece on using the problem-solution approach to writing academic articles, this article explores (originally published in 1997) defining the audience, defining the author, and evaluating the structure of an article, and it outlines helpful questions for writers and readers.

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