LEARNING WITH SONGS

LYRICS

This site is very interesting. However, for our students it could be a bit difficult. You must try to find songs which they know and they search it in the site. By motivating them, you can then teach different structures and vocabulary.

Teaching Grammar Through songs

I found this site via Nick Peachey 's blog. It is amazing. It enables to practise grammar through songs. You just have to type the structure you want to learn, and a list of songs will turn up which will link to a clip

Developing Reading Skills

Besides WEB 2.0, I will also include some sites to develop the basic skills. Now I will deal with Reading.

Some I found at Larry Ferrazzo's blog.
http://professorgarfield.org/pgf_ReadingRing.html
Put cartoon strips in order and answer comprehension questions. (Great!)

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/onlinestory.htm#talk a collection of online reading stories.

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/gr1_4lily/skill_ae.htmlDrawing conclusions. (simple but interesting)

http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/i/enviroprintp.cfm Reading Street signs

http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories.htm stories for kids

http://www.englishclub.com/reading/short-stories.htm short stories graded by level.

http://www.zapdramatic.com/mod1.htm You can read, listen and watch a very exciting story. You are even asked to interact with the events. SUPERB!

glogster

You can create posters on line easily with this application. Just register and start creating. Lately, they started the site for education, glosgster.edu in which you can create your students'accounts. I will share a presentation I did for my 7th Grade students

what I like about it:
- it's very easy and user friendly.
- you can upload music, text, video, images
- very attractive visually
- Students can work on : their own description, their school. their likes and dislikes.
- I think it is a good alternative for the World Championship, they can look for information about countries and publish a glogster.