Larry Ferlazzo
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Larry Ferlazzo talks about websites that will help you teach ELL, ESL and EFL. I teach English, Social Studies and International Baccalaureate classes to English Language Learners and mainstream students at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento.
Larry Ferlazzo
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Here’s this year’s ‘Best” list about “Words Of The Year,” though many dictionaries still have to announce their choices. I’ll add them to the list as they come up. You can see all the previous “Words of the Year” lists here. Here’s what I have so far: Writer Thoreau warned of brain rot in ..read more
Larry Ferlazzo
5h ago
Why Does This Matter to Me, Students Want to Know. Here’s How to Make Lessons Relevant is the headline of one of my recent Ed Week columns. If all students get out of a topic is a lesson full of steps and memorization tricks, then it becomes divorced from reality. Here are some excerpts ..read more
Here’s A Revised & Updated Version Of What A Typical Day & Week Of My ELL Newcomers Class Looks Like
Larry Ferlazzo
5h ago
I’ve shared several different versions over the years about how I teach my two-period ELL Newcomers class. Even though I’ve been teaching it for well over twenty years, I continue to find ways to improve it! Here’s what I’m doing now (I’ll be adding this post to There Are Tons Of Resources On This ..read more
Larry Ferlazzo
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There was another round on Twitter last week of people complaining about the physical closure of schools during the height of the COVID epidemic. And, I suspect that most of those complainers were able to work remotely as long as they wanted. Last year, I wrote Might The PISA Results Finally Stop The Complaining ..read more
Larry Ferlazzo
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There are many online games useful for learning English, but the engagement and interactive that can take place with face-to-face board games is an entirely different kettle of fish. Every other Friday, peer tutors set up four or five “stations” with different games, and students rotate playing them every fifteen minutes or so. Everyone ..read more
Larry Ferlazzo
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My end-of-year “Best” list posts continue… I publish a regular series called SEL Weekly Update, and I thought it would useful to readers and to me to review them and highlight the ones I think are the best of the year. You might also be interested in “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources. All ..read more
Larry Ferlazzo
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Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You can also see all my “Best” lists on instructional strategies here. Here are this week’s picks: Trying to get a field trip approved in some school districts https://t.co/xMZ2wwzYNi ..read more
Larry Ferlazzo
2d ago
Ten years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in checking ..read more
Larry Ferlazzo
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At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSROOM. Here are the latest: SlidesBot is free, and can generate not terrible slideshows about any topic you want. If you ..read more
Larry Ferlazzo
2d ago
We’ve completed reviewing the galley proofs of the second edition of The ELL Teacher’s Toolbox, which is titled The ELL Teacher’s Toolbox 2.0. It’s a monster of a book at over 600 pages – and that’s with putting all the references online! It’s so big that we had to also put eleven chapters online ..read more