This week I explored new and exciting resources that were suggested through my teacher, Avraham Roos. The resources that we discussed in this chapter were both practical and useful. I particularly liked the text compactor tool . I chose this tool because of an issue that came up while teaching this week.
My 6th graders had an upcoming text in their workbooks that was very long. My weak students were immediately intimidated and refused to even try to read despite my attempt to use a jigsaw activity. I think that an abridged copy of the text for weaker students would have helped them feel that they could participate in the lesson. The tool is as simple as plugging in a text from a workbook lesson that I need to give in the coming week. I was able to get an abridged copy for my weaker students. My 6th grade class has weak students that are unmotivated and even a bit anti-English this year. I think that being able to include them in lessons in a meaningful way would offer great opportunities of language learning.
A few of the other fun tools that I look forward to trying in various ways include:
Simple Wikipedia for research projects.
Crossword Puzzle Maker for fun ways to play with and reinforce vocabulary.
Word Cloud for vocabulary acquisition and reinforcement.
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