What Reading Strategies Work In Every Content Area? by TeachThought Staff Reading is simply a sequence of symbol interpretation. By understanding that letters make sounds, we can blend those sounds together to make whole sounds that symbolize meaning we can all exchange with one another. By mastering the symbols and their most common contexts, reading becomes a practice in thought--less about decoding and more about understanding. Without getting too Platonic about it all, reading doesn't…

To develop students’ vocabulary skills, I have compiled a list of engaging strategies for teaching vocabulary, including both direct and indirect instruction.

ESL Vocabulary Workshop - Teach terms and more with different games and activities that will keep students engaged and invested in learning!

If we want language to come OUT of our students’ mouths, we must get language IN to their heads. They need INput so that they can produce OUTput. » Input is reading and listening » Output is speaking and writing This is common sense. A learner cannot utter an expression in a new language if…

This week, we learned … … there’s a lost continent in the Indian Ocean. How do you lose a continent? What’s a microcontinent? How’d scientists find the lost continent? … how Ikea names…

Gamification tools for teachers are the topic of our blog post today!

Speaking cards are a very useful tool in an EFL classroom as they allow students to practice the vocabulary and grammar they have learnt in previous lessons.

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