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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Come and check out this awesome pre-reading resource. This site offers examples of simple word games you can play with kids to increase their ability to recognize and use letters and sounds. Try these games the next time you're in the...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Poets and Puppets: Learning English

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Use these how-toos to help English Language Learners with speaking and writing. Using poetry and role playing with puppets unleashes creativity.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Readers' Theatre for Kapiti Plain

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This readers' theatre of Verna Aardema's Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain crosses the curriculum to incorporate language arts, social studies, and science objectives. Students will become familiar with the text of the story and then...
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Cummings Study Guides: How Shakespeare Prepared Manuscripts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn many of the elements which Shakespeare used, or took into consideration, as he wrote the original manuscripts of his plays. How did he shape the English language with new words, how did he evoke settings when plays used few or no...
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British Council

British Council Learn English: Jokes

For Students 9th - 10th
A new cartoon joke weekly and an archive of previous strips organized by topic (animal, family, doctor). All involve a pun or play on words, and are drawn in a non-busy, ELL/ESL friendly style.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Xhosa

For Students 9th - 10th
"Xhosa" is the generic name used for a number of related cultural groups in South Africa. Xhosa groups include the Mpondo, Bomvana, Bhaca, Thembu, Mpondomise, Xesibe, Mfengu, Hlubi, and the Xhosa proper. These Southern Nguni peoples, as...