Resources for Reading

Your Best Sites for Designing Your Reading Activity

Well.. when teaching reading for different grades, finding the best reading story sometimes is difficult. It is because teachers need to adjust what is written inside the reading passages. Teachers may have difficulty to find best reading text which relatable for their students. Other challenge is also about how teachers deliver the reading text. Another problem which always haunt the teachers is about busyness. Teachers have limited time to prepare their lesson.
However, do not worry too much teachers. In the internet, there are many sites that can help you with what you need. Such resources contain strategies to teach reading, lesson plans, and many books/reading texts.

Here are several best resources for teacher to teach reading.


1. Scholastic

 It is free accessible website that you

 can access anytime. It is design for teachers to teach reading that is aimed for students around 3 to 12 years old. In Scholastic you can find books, teaching tools and videos that can help student' learning process in the classroom.

Many printable tools to teach reading with different topics also can be downloaded. Try to check it by yourself, and you will find it beneficial.

2. K12reader

In K12reader, you will find many worksheets that your students can do. Yes, it is design for young learners up to 12th grade. The material is just perfect, I think. You can have worksheet from the very basic material just like spelling to the high level one such as reading comprehension. K12reader is very easy to access and free. You also can find several articles related to teach reading which can boost your knowledge. 

3. ReadingRockets

This is another children reading resources for teachers. ReadingRockets provides you videos, articles and reading books for young learners. The article mostly about how you can teach reading to young learners. ReadingRockets website is free, you don't need to sign-up or anything. But, if you want to have the reading book, you need to purchase it. 

Well,  those are some of the best online reading resources to teach reading. Before facing your students, do not forget to check the reading passages. You need to consider the content of the reading whether it is okay or safe for their age or not. Also, remember that reading is one of literacy skills. So, you need to monitor your students in the way they read. Do they struggle on reading something or do they enjoy reading it?

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Best Resources for Speaking

Best Online Resources for Speaking

Talking about Speaking, having someone or friend who can speak English as partner is not easy. Sometimes, they are busy or perhaps, we really have no friends who are confident enough to help us. Such challenge is usually happened for students. They struggle to find friends to communicate with, consistently. Some also fear of getting bullied because others think they are too ambitious or show off their skills.
While for teachers, the challenge comes from how to get material spoken in comprehensible and appropriate accent or speed for the students. 

But, again.. don't worry teachers. There is always way to teach your students.
 I have several resources that will really help you on improving your speaking skill or finding good material for you. 

1. ESLgold

ESLgold is a good resource for teachers. It helps you improve your speaking skill since it has a feature to practise your speaking. It is called Speak English Today. You just need to sign-up and you can practise speaking freely. Another thing is that ESLgold provides you the speaking materials with several different levels. You may check and select the best material that suit your students level. 

2. MyEnglishPages
 In MyEnglishPages you can find many topics which can help you in the classroom. When you click one of topic from the list, you will find some expressions or vocabulary related to the topic. For more advanced learners, teachers could add more vocabulary or expressions out of the given ones. For instance, you can see HERE. It is free access everyone, so please visit MyEnglishPages if you need help for your speaking class.

3. LingoGlobe

 It is a website that you could use for practicing your speaking skill. It can be for students or teachers. In this website, you can have opportunities to communicate with other English speakers around the world. LingoGlobe is free and easy to operate, including to sign-up.
On LingoGlobe , people will help each other. Other fellow will help you improving your speaking skills, while you, can teach them your native language. Such a win-win solution, isn't it? Try it now and get the improvement :D







Well.. Those are just some examples of useful resources for teaching/practicing speaking.
Teachers need to remember that the most important thing about speaking is practising. In other words, opportunity to speak so it is very essential to make sure that your students have enough time to "SPEAK" in your classroom.  Also, ask your students practise their English joyfully, without any negative thoughts about being corrected.

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Resources for Writing

2 Best Resource for Writing

This is the next part of Online Resourcer for ESL Teachers. It will be focus on "Writing". Another challenge for teachers is teaching writing which is known as the most difficult skill to teach. But, remember, nothing now is difficult to do by teachers since the technology is hand in hand helped the teaching process. 

Just like the previous post about "Resources for Listening" , teachers are helped by many teachers and expert around the world to smplify their way in finding material. There are several website that will help you teach writing in your classroom. 

Here are they; 

1. Time 4 Writing

 Time 4 Writing will help to assist the teacher in their teaching. This site provides free writing resources for grading, writing conventions and the use of graphic organizers. Time 4 Writing also provides may articles and related writing topics with the variety of students' level as well. Further, Time 4 Writing offers worksheet, games, video lessons and related activity to help the teachers. 
And.. it is free and downloadable, teachers. Wow, just go and see what can Time 4 Writing give you. 



2. Teacher Vision

Teacher Vision gives the teacher solid creative writing skills. This site provides lesson plans, printable worksheet and graphic organizers. It is not only for teacher, it is also design for encoraging the creativity of the students. Teacher Vision also provides poetry activity, short story and others. Not only that, this site offers several technique of teaching, writing themes and different students' level. 
It is easy to access because it's free and downloadable. Find out more by click Teacher Vision and be the best writing teachers. 

Yes, why I only write two websites? I do it intentionally, because these two websites are focuses on writing only. If you ever surf the Internet by typing "Online resources for EFL teachers". you will find many websites that provides all things related teaching English include Writing skill. 

Just try to visit these several links below;

1.  Creative Writing
2.  Teaching English  
3. Education.com 
4. ESL Writing Exercise 

Yes, That's all for "Resources for Writing". Hopefully your class now will be more creative and challenging. Find your perfect way of teaching writing with those website as assistant. 

Also, Don't forget to read my previous and next article related to this. 

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Resources for Listening

Best Resources for Listening

English teachers who get difficulties finding material especially "Listening Materials", be calm and prepare your laptop, Teachers. Nowadays, with technology everything become easy and simple. It is also useful in finding listening materials in the Internet. Teachers will be very helpful if they can use technology in the right and appropriate way in their teaching. 

Teachers usually get difficulties in finding the best level of listening material and the topic for the listening material as well. If they want to surf the internet, there are a lot of things that can be used for teaching. There are several website that provides many listening materials with a bunch of topic and level for the students. It can be the "Authentic" one or "Recorded" one. Teachers is the one who decide what listening materials that can match well with the culture and background of the students.

Here are the "Best 5 Online Resources for Listening"

1. VOA Learning English 

 VOA or Voice of America is widely-known brand that people can see in many medias, such as News in TV or YouTube as well. VOA Learning English tells the news around the world. This website provide you MP3 audio and video to watch. It is easy, because it is download able and free. So, teachers may download it directly, and use it in the classroom without any meaningful difficulties. The video also come up with subtitle that no more that three minutes long.  Just go to this
VOA Learning English and find out more, Teachers. 

2. Talk English

Talk English come up with listening materials in many levels of students; Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced. So, teachers will automatically helped by this. The listening material can be conversation, multiple choice quiz or audio full script. It is also free and downloadable. But, there are also several choices, if you want to pay for the audio, you may do that here. So, check and go to  Talk English for finding best listening material for the students.

 

3. Podcast in English

Podcast in English is also another great website that provides many listening materials in the MP3 format. The podcast has several levels and variety of topics. It is also very easy to download the podcast. Podcast in English is free and you can sign up with your email account. The transcript and worksheet are also available. Teachers, just go Podcast in English and find your best listening material. 

 




4. ESL Cyber Listening Lab

ESL Cyber Listening Lab is greatly provide the teachers with quizzes. The quizzes are divided into several level, such as Easy, Medium and Difficult. Not only that, teachers are also provided by the Pre-listening activity of this ESL Cyber Listening Lab. After having the Pre-Listening, multiple choices quiz and Post-activity will be followed. No more talk, just go to this
ESL Cyber Listening Lab and you can find many things in it.


















5.  Newsy

Similar with VOA, Newsy also provides listening materials in the form of short news with variety of topics, from entertainment to business, International to US news. The best thing of this site is that each video also provided by the transcript of the news report. Another jackpot is, Newsy was offered as an app for Android, Blackberry, iPhone and iPad. Just go to this
Newsy to know what's the next amazing thing.

So, teachers.. do not need to feel stress in finding the listening material that appropriate for your students. With technology, teaching become easier and simpler. Don't forget to always 

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5 Best Online Resources for EFL Teacher

 5 Best Online Resources for EFL Teacher

Long time ago, teachers was having difficulties to find out material, media and supported recources to teach. Without any Internet connection and limited recources to teach, teachers are mostly do the same thing that is monoton.

But, nowadays, in this technology era, teachers are extremely easy to find interesting material in the internet. In many cases, teacher can find many things now in the Internet related with their teaching such as lesson plan, books, articles, video or songs to support their teaching.

Talking about the online recources, for those who don't have any experience or idea what it is and where you can find it,  this article will help you find out more.

There are 5 best Online Recources for EFL Teachers

 1. Busy Teacher

This is one of author's favorite recources. In Busy Teacher you can find many things related to support your teaching, such as lesson plan, worksheet, video. song and related articles or books. It is also free access and downloadable.  Go to Busy Teacher

2. BBC Learn Engish

 

BBC Learn Engish is one of the most popular recources among EFL teachers. It is from the Great Britain that provide teacher many things as well. BBC Learn Engish is very well-known with the podcast or audio for listening with the British accent. It's not only provide listening material, it also provide teacher with lesson plan and teaching ideas. Go to BBC Learn Engish.

3. English CLub 

 English CLub is also interesting recources. It has page for the learners and for the teacher. It provides many things related English skill and teaching English. Go to English CLub .


4. ESL Video

For teachers who find difficulties providing students with good and appropriate videos or audio listening, you can klik and go to ESL Video. It provides you with many ESL video and podcast that will support your teaching process. Go to ESL Video.

5. Super Simple Learning

One of the difficulties that teachers found is teaching young learners with many interesting activity. To solve that problem,  Super Simple Learning provides you many songs and videos related to the material for English young learner. In  Super Simple Learning  also, you can find articles that may give you more knowledge about how to teach young learner.

Those are the best Online Resources for EFL Teachers. You can find out more about the recources by individually visit those links. Further, to know a hundred of online recources,  you can klik Online Recources for EFL Teacher

Okay, hopefully, it helps you in your real teaching.

Keep teaching with sincerity, helping with pleasure and inspire with no reward. 

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