Wow, it has BEEN a MINUTE on these Covid streets!
I’m tentatively starting a new series here on MRAL. In it, I want to organize for myself and others the plethora of online resources that we’re all going to need if we want to be social justice-minded teachers online. We’ll see how it goes.
First up: ESL Resources.
BBC World offers this resource as a clearinghouse for multimedia related to teaching ELL students across the world. These resources include audio, video, and text sources, and range from the basics of grammar to structured courses. I think the English We Speak and Six Minute English would be great resources for a Google Classroom.
This offers a bunch of quizzes the student can take at home to check fluency and grammar.
This is another study-guide/self-paced quizzer that helps develop vocabulary.
Duolingo offers 3 different podcasts. You’ll see that the English is designed for students learning Spanish and the Spanish is designed for students learning English.
Each video on Randall’s playlist has linked activities, and an interesting hook.
Designed for the pre-K-3 learner, this site is super adorable and has literacy tools for many types of students.
Featuring short excerpts from beloved books both new and old, this site offers both audio and visual resources, as well as short quizzes.
If you want to increase a sense of classroom community (and yes, it’s possible to do this in a virtual classroom), try having students answer these journal prompts in the chat box of your Zoom or Google Meets.