Storytelling in the ELL Classroom
 VIDEO: Kathleen Fay, a specialist at Bailey’s Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences in Falls Church, Va., and co-author of “Becoming One Community: Reading & Writing with English Language Learners,” workshops with students from Central and South America, and parts of the Middle East.
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Video For Your Classroom
Streaming Video Ideas
Teachers across the country are enhancing lesson plans and engaging their students with digital video-on-demand from web-based services or educational web sites. Videos add a visual element for language production and practice, as well as some excitement.
Display video on television monitors, project it via an LCD projector onto a white board, or show it to small groups of students gathered around a computer monitor. Here's where to find some:
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 Digitalcurriculum.com A product of Discovery Education, this site includes full-length educational videos, key concept video clips, still images, Encyclopaedia Britannica content, teacher guides, lesson plans, and interactive online assessments and assignments.
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 Films.com Films Media Group offers content for middle, high school and college classrooms. While FMG offers content in all subject areas, they have a large variety of health and science videos.
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 Powermediaplus.com provides current, standards-based video content for all K-12 subject areas. Videos are correlated to the specific performance indicators and learning standards in your state. Locate your video by the standard, or if you’ve already chosen your program, review the standards that video supports.
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 Unitedstreaming.com Also from Discovery Education, unitedstreaming is a digital video-on-demand service with over 40,000 video content clips and 4,000 full video titles from Discovery School and other award-winning producers. The videos are standards-based and designed for all K-12 content areas.
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Speaking their Language
 SLIDESHOW: Check out some young English Language Learners brushing up on their skills. View the slideshow!
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Intercultural Email Classroom Connections
IECC is a free teaching.com service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for e-mail classroom pen pal and other project exchanges. Since its creation in 1992, IECC has distributed over 28,000 requests for email partnerships.
ePALS
ePALS Global Network connects over 106,947 classrooms, 5 million students and educators in 191 countries for classroom-to-classroom projects and cross-cultural learning in the world's largest online classroom community.
mylanguageexchange.com
Search by many criteria including age, country and interest to find penpals and use the site’s free free how-to guidelines provided by an expert in language exchange learning.
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