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Standards for Language Instruction
Online Resources for Language Instruction
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General Language Instruction Resources
Scholastic
Discipline: Language Arts
Grade Level: All ages
Website: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/teach.jsp
Description: This site focuses mainly on Language arts since it is a site run by a publisher, Scholastic. However, it does also have some resources for other subjects. The site offers activity ideas for all grades, but the best utility and biggest drawback of the site are the pintables and minibooks. In order to browse more than the featured items, teachers are required to subscribe so the resources are not free. (Caitlyn Carhart)
Carol Hurst
Discipline: Literature
Grade Level: All ages
Website: http://www.carolhurst.com/
Description: This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.We've taken subjects such as MATH and HISTORY and integrated them with the language arts and other areas of the curriculum. Here you'll find recommended children's books, activities and approaches for the curriculum areas. (Michael Crawford)
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/ Discipline: English/Language Arts, Foreign Language Grade Level(s): K-12 Description: The Internet Public Library is a public library for the World Wide Web. It has a variety of resources all in one site. For example, students can learn over ten foreign languages by getting access to grammar exercises, dictionaries, and language tutorials in the language of interest or under study. There is also a page for kids and teens that provides relevant, useful links related to a particular subject, such as Reference, Health and Nutrition, Art and Music, Sports and Recreation, Math and Science, Reading Zone, Our World, and much more. The “TeenSpace” page supports teens in their rigorous schoolwork and tumultuous social lives by providing resources on homework help, how to write a research paper, health and sexuality, money and work, and a poetry wiki where they can let out their thoughts and emotions and communicate with other teens. In addition, the site also contains online resources for parents and teachers. (Sally Truong)
Discipline: Languages Grade level: K-6 Web Site Address: http://www.littlepim.com/ Description: This websites gives children the opportunity to learn various foreign languages, such as Spanish, French, Chinese, Italian, Japanese and so on. This webiste also offers guiProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0
nce for parents and teachers to teach their children foreign languages. This website makes learning a foreign language fun, while it boosts brain power. (Hykui Oganesyan)
Web Site Address: http://www.lcsee.wvu.edu/~schoder/CI787/index.htm
Discipline: Languages
Grade Level(s): K-5 under one section and 6-adult under another section
Description: This site incorporates the important aspects of language acquisition. Students choose the language they are learning and each language is divided by alphabet, numbers, colors, shapProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0
, writing, a dictionary, vocabulary, animals, activities, songs, learning about the culture in places where the language is native, games, and clothing. The site provides the type of whole learning approach favored by many when it comes to languages as it allows for interactive learning rather than drill and kill worksheets which test spelling, vocabulary, and end up boring the students. (Abigail Reifman)
Quiz Tree
Discipline: Foreign Language
Grade Level: All ages
Website: http://www.quiz-tree.com/Foreign_Languages_smain.html
Description: This site is design to help people of any age (including adults) learn how to speak Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian. After you click on the language you are interested in learning a long list of topics comes up. These include but are not limited phrases, family, verbs, colors, medical, school, shopping and time. The phrase that you want to learn is said out loud and then you have to click on the correct spelling of that phrase. It is timed and the faster you go the higher your score is at the end. (Michelle Moran)
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Mandarin
Below are the links to great websites to start with Mandarin.
http://mandarin.about.com/od/pronunciation/l/blsounds.htm?p=1
http://www.mdnkids.com/BoPoMo/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=TW&hl=zh-TW&v=mCJhQ8Vu2x8
Spanish
Storyplace
Discipline: Bilingual Reading
Grade Level: 1-2, Any for ELLs
Website address: http://www.storyplace.org/
Description: Interactive stories in English or Spanish for first and second graders. Stories are adaptations of classic fairy tales. Produced and maintained by a NC public library and on the ALA list of best reading sites for kids. Recommended for adults is to view your non-spoken language (Spanish for English Speakers, for example), and see how easy it is to follow the familiar story. (Edward B. Wahl)
Spanish 1 and 2 Fluenz http://www.fluenz.com/languages/spanish/learn-spanish/index.html?gclid=CMHK-qTZ9ZYCFQ8Qagod93U8ZQ This interactive software is perfect for a beginning and intermediate levels of Spanish. The students have an interactive instructor to guide them throughout the entire lesson. There is a total of 30 lesson that students will work with. Students are exposed to dialogues in the outside world (e.g. restaurants, stores)Subtitles in English and Spanish go right along with the recordings. Students review each and every part of the with the instructor to clarify the meaning. Students have a variety of activities to review the vocabulary and phrases(e.g matching, type in the word, type the word or phrase you heard)
The section that I recommend the most is the part in the instruction where students record themselves and form part of the dialogue scene they were introduced at the beginning.
BBC Spanish' http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/ This is a BBC Spanish language free website where students can listen to and read words in Spanish and English. The website also has videos in episodes, games and cartoons. The website has also basic situations in audio and video about different topics. The website gives feedback checking for correct answers and gives you scores. It includes grammar and dictionary that links you with Reference.com. It also has travel information, news and contact with native speakers. This website has topics that are more appropriate for students from 7 to 12 grades. The contents are divided in three levels that are beginners, intermediate, and advance. It also connects students with young people in Spain.
Sesame Street
Discipline: Languages
Grade level: pre k-2nd
Website address: www.sesamestreet.org
Description: Across the top of the home page, the site has a links to games, videos, sesame playlists, muppets, and my street. Your mouse sparkles when it passes over some links on the page and Elmo describes where each of the links on the home page redirects you. I selected games, and then was able pick a game by character, subject, or theme. In total, there are eight pages of games, with about nine games on each page. I selected Spanish language as my subject and then “Cooking with Rosita,” which was actually the only option. The game facilitated cooking, or rather learning cooking words, and counting in Spanish. (Jenny Graham)
