Teachers
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Check out the RAZ Kahoot Collection. Play a Kahoot as follow-up to RAZ reading.
*** NEW*** Courses on Kahoot! Check out my Reading Practice course
This page has information about designing a CLIL curriculum for Taiwanese elementary students.
This page has links to resources that can help train students for English competitions in Taitung County.
Local English teachers can brush up on English skills and get some teaching tips
Wikipedia in simple English, simple sentence structure. Use articles as source material for reading exercises and exams.
Limited ability to make your own games with free account. Don't worry! So many Taiwanese teachers have signed up and shared games with EStar, FollowMe, Dino, Hello Kids content. Get a free account and bookmark the ones you need for your curriculum.
Limited ability to make your own lessons with free account. Get a free account and make a few unique, key lessons that you need and can't get anywhere else.
Excellent resource when used with CAUTION! Music videos are genuine pop/rock MVs, so the content is often inappropriate for school settings. Set up a free account and collect a "safe" set of videos which you feel are appropriate for your students. Never let students use this unsupervised.
Classic match/concentration type games to practice phonics vocabulary. Click on boxes to reveal pictures and words. Clicking action plays a recording of the word in male/female North American accents. You must download and play in PPT. The games will NOT play in Google Slides.
No Tech / Low Tech
Printable board game pieces (shark cards): print, cut, paste front and back sides and laminate to make 16 cards. Attach sticky magnets and arrange 4 by 4 on blackboard. Can use Cartesian coordinates to practice sentences. For example, persons/pronouns X rooms of the house : Where is Dad? He is in the kitchen. Then select the card indexed by dad x kitchen. Other low tech/no tech games inside.
Download the PPTs and play in Powerpoint for best results. The "pptm" files randomly play through slides. This feature is not possible in Google Slides.
Shark Jeopardy games: These are PPT adaptations made from a jeopardy style PPT. I made them because some of my classrooms have glass boards that are unsuitable for the peel and stick magnets of physical game cards. Download and copy. Manually rearrange card values for multiple plays.
You got problems? Don't we all... This section might get deep, so the link is buried deep down at the bottom. I discuss some teaching issues and my point of view on problems facing EFL teachers in Taiwanese classrooms. Content here might migrate to some other site that is better suited to blogging in the future, but it's tucked away here for now.
This page has information about incorporating Reading A to Z (RAZ) into your English curriculum. I describe the different ways we use it, and how it can be useful to help students develop self-directed learning competence and practice reading strategies. Spoiler alert: This page has descriptions of our learning programs, but does not contain any proprietary content. If you feel that you are ready to use RAZ for students, you still need to register and pay for a subscription. And a final DISCLAIMER: I have no financial or commercial connections to RAZ. I simply find it useful as an English teacher, so just consider what I say as a satisfied customer testimonial, not an endorsement. I believe you can probably develop similar reading programs in your school using a free platform like Oxford Owl. My school just happened to have an account when I started working here, and I grew to love RAZ.