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1. Incorporating Opportunities for Interaction and Sharing

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Young Learners Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we examine some simple ways to incorporate movement and interaction into any lesson in the young learners’ English classroom.

2. Week 4 - Reflecting on News

   In: Teacher's Corner: Media Literacy Format(s): Text

   This week, students will work together to create posters that communicate key issues and questions in news sources.

3. Developing Sight Word Recognition and Vocabulary

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

   Texts written in English are made up of many of the same words. These words are called high-frequency words because they appear so often. Sometimes these words can be tricky for beginners because their spelling patterns may not follow typical English phonics rules.

4. Teaching Self-Regulation Strategies to Language Learners

   In: Teacher's Corner: Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities Format(s): Text

   Since the late 1980s, second language researchers and cognitive scientists have investigated the role of strategies in learning a language.

5. Practical Tips for Increasing Listening Practice Time

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article help teachers of English reconsider how to think about listening tasks. It provides guidance for increasing classroom listening practice through short, dedicated tasks, with an emphasis on the practical business of setting up and “class-managing” listening activities in order to give students more practice.

6. Getting Students Into Pairs and Groups for Collaborative Learning - Part 2

   In: Teacher's Corner: Classroom Management Format(s): Text

   As we saw in last week’s Teacher’s Corner, the process of creating student groups doesn’t have to be boring! This week we will explore more ideas on how to create impromptu groups for collaborative learning activities and projects.

7. Compare and Contrast Variations for Same and Different Cards

   In: Teacher's Corner: Comparatives and Superlatives - Adjectives Format(s): Text

   Our Teacher’s Corner this week encourages students to use comparative and superlative adjectives as they discuss groups of related items.

8. Formative Assessments: Part 2

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

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner discusses three additional types of formative assessments as well as how to use assessment data to have the greatest positive impact on student learning.

9. Week 3 - Making Requests with Modals

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

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students learn the various ways to make requests using modals.

10. Week 1 - Routines for Everyday Language

    In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Beginners Format(s): Text

    This week, learn to establish routines to help beginners feel comfortable right from the start.

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