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1. PBS Learning Media

   Format(s): Website

   PBS LearningMedia™ is the go-to destination for instant access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos, games, audio clips, photos, lesson plans, and more!

2. Video Games: The New Media Literacy

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

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine four types of technology that can help achieve classroom goals. Each tool is free to use. This week’s Teacher’s Corner, focuses on several video games that can be used in the classroom. Engage your students and help them learn with these free videogames.

3. Total Physical Response (TPR) and Miming with "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Listening Format(s): MP3, Text, Image / Poster / Maps

   This meaning-focused listening activity uses the song “One, Two, Buckle My Shoe” from Sing Out Loud-Children’s Songs.

4. Teacher's Corner: Engaging English Language Learners with New Forms of Literacy

   Format(s): Text

   In the 21st century, our students have to know how to read and communicate using more than just words on paper or a computer screen. Communication takes many forms, and our classroom teaching will benefit by bringing in these new forms of communication. April’s Teacher’s Corner looks at several new literacies: instant messaging, comics and graphic novels, short-form videos, and podcasting. We explore what these forms are and how we can use them in the classroom to help students develop their language skills and to solve problems in an ever-changing world of communication.

5. Instructional Articles

   In: Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels Format(s): Text

   Instructional Articles

6. Teacher's Corner: Gerunds and Infinitives

   Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner explores the uses of gerunds and infinitives, how to use them, and when.

7. Multi-Modal Writing: Promoting Digital Literacy in the English Language Classroom

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): MP3, Text

   This webinar discusses how multi-modal writing uses more than just words to communicate–it encourages students to use audio, video, photographs, and drawings to supplement their writing in meaningful ways.

8. Teacher's Corner: Listening

   Format(s): Text

   These “Teacher’s Corner” activities are inspired by a framework for thinking about listening instruction presented in Beth Sheppard’s 2014 “Practical Activities for Balanced Listening Instruction” webinar, part of the Shaping the Way We Teach English webinar series.

9. Scaffolding Linguistics and Intercultural Goals in EFL with Simplified Novels and their Film Adaptations

   In: English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article argues that exposure to culture will help students develop complex linguistic and cultural skills. The authors discuss the use of graded literary readers, audio resources, and films. They present a detailed description of the implementation and results of two simplified novel modules in an EFL program.

10. Animating Your Instruction: Using Comics and Graphic Novels in the English Language Classroom

    In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

    "Animating Your Instruction: Using Comics and Graphic Novels in the English Language Classroom" explores the popularity of illustrated stories among teachers and students alike and offers suggestions on how to use them to “animate” your classes.

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