Some help to find great resources

Hello everyone! I hope you are all enjoying our posts.

I have decided to write about a webpage that I have found which could be interesting for all of us in our future lessons as Primary teachers.

This webpage is http://www.webenglishteacher.com , and here you can find a huge amount of resources, strategies and tips for vocabulary, writing, poetry etc. in English. As this blog is dedicated for Children’s Literature, I have accessed the part that says “Reading/Literacy” to see how good is this page for us.

This part is full of resources, and as in everything, some are good and some not so good (from my point of view, obviously). You can check them if you want so that you can also give your opinion about it, but I am going to talk about three of them that got my attention and that I think that are good and we could use in our future classroom.

The first one is the one called “Character Scrapbook”:

scrapbook

Here, you have to invent the name of a scrapbook (álbum de recortes) and the name of character. You can also decide if the character is a person or an animal and then create it by changing the hair, the eyes, the nose… As you can also see from the picture, you can also write ten things I know about… From my point of view, this can be very useful if, for example, we let our students to create a character and we tell them to build up a story in groups using the characters they have invented.

The second one is “Classroom Strategies”: this is a webpage where you can find templates about what to do before, during and after reading a book. As we have learned also in another subject “Designing and delivering effective lessons for the English Primary classroom”, it is very important to motivate our students to read, but also to scaffold the outputs they are going to produce with these readings.

And finally, the third one is related with the previous one: “103 things to do before/during/after reading”:

103 things

In this case, is not about templates, but activities that you can tell your students to do. Some of them are really interesting, such as creating an advertisement of the book as it were a film, to write a story about one of the characters like if he/she travels out of the book into today or to write an imaginary interview to the friends or family of a character.

As you can see, we can find lots and lots of resources, the only thing you need is some time to explore and critical thinking to realize what activities you can/should use at any time.

I invite you to surf in these pages and give me your opinions about it, or if you find any others also tell me ;)

2 thoughts on “Some help to find great resources

  1. Hi Yoli,
    First of all I have to tell you that I love your post. I find it very useful for us, because we have to motivate children with lots of resources, not only reading text books in class.
    For this reason, I tell you “Thank you”, because I consider very interesting to work with my future students.
    It could be a good idea, to create some website in which all of us can put some websites that we consider important or interesting for children to have in the future a very interesting tool to work with. Maybe, not only websites, but also some activities that you do with your students and works perfectly and you want to share with your classmates or your teachers.
    I hope you to read more about this. Thanks.

  2. Hello Yolanda,

    First of all, thanks for sharing your post with us. It was very useful to see some different resources that we are not use to seeing. Trying to change the repetitiveness of text books is important to maintain the attention and the interest of all of your students and these webstites help to do this.

    Also I like what Luis mentioned in the previous comment about a blog-like site that we can all input some of our favourite sources and materials and make note on how we can deliver these appropriately to the class. This can help to amplify what we can deliver and strengthen the method of delivery.

    Great post.

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