Teacher Resources

Links for Teachers

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The Learning Patio 
​Our sister site where teachers go for ready made classroom materials and a growing number of interactive learning activities for students.

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Forums-Refence sites

• Dave's ESL Cafe
  In their own words: The internet's meeting place for ESL + EFL teacher and students from around the world.

• Reading Rockets
  Offers effective teaching strategies, activities, lessons, lesson plans, worksheets, exercises, skills, tests, assessments for reading comprehension, language arts ...
  

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Spanish for English Speakers 

• Spanish, French, German, Italian 33 more language courses and phrases, audio and video, vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, activities and tests
  
• Teaching Spanish 
  An overview of all of the Spanish courses on this website, including level and syllabus
• Learn Spanish
   An interesting site for learning Spanish.
• Sing-A-Lingo
  A very nice site that emphasizes learning Spanish for the 3 to 6 year olds through music.
• Spanish Comics
  Spanish language comics that promote new cartoonists a way to share comics, mangas, historietas or tebeos,online in Spanish.

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Other Languages

• Chinese
  A lively introduction to Mandarin Chinese in 10 short parts with video clips from the Real Chinese TV series.
  

• French

        These 10 online topics are based on the 20-part TV series and build on the absolute basics of Talk French.

• Italian

        Resources for teaching greetings, introductions, talking about your family, children and pets, where you're from and what you do

• Greek

        An introduction to basic Greek in 10 short parts

• German

        German from expert or somewhere in between.

• Portuguese

        Introduction to Portuguese in 11 short parts with printable activities.

• Arabic

        20 audio phrases and learn how to say a range of useful phrases from 'Hello' to 'Pleased to meet you'.

• Russian

        20 audio phrases and learn how to say a range of useful phrases from 'Hello' to 'Pleased to meet you'.

• 36 other Languages

        Learn and take these essential phrases in 40 languages with you on your mp3 player and as a print-out!

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 Poetry 

• Pabloe Neruda

        Puedo escribir los versos mas tristes esta noche

• Mecedes Sosa

        Gracias a La Vida- With lyrics

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Children's poetry by Meadowbrook Press. How to teach poetry in the classroom. Lots of ideas for educators on teaching poetry in fun and interesting ways

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 Free Audio Books and Stories 

• Free eBooks by Project Gutenberg 
  Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device
• LibriVox 
  LibriVox provides an  extensive collection of free audio books read by volunteers; the goal is to record every book in the public domain. The quality of their narrators varies significantly depending on the reader's voice and the audio recording.
  
• Horror Masters
  Over 2,900 free horror stories with a new  every night. There are special sections for ghost stories, vampires, monsters, the occult, werewolves, witches, and general horror.
  

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Test Reference

• TEA Texas Education Agency
  Released Tests, Answer Keys, and Scoring Guide

• DIBELS
  IDEL Information Indicadores Dinámicos del Éxito en la Lectura is a research-based formative assessment series of measures designed to assess the basic early literacy skills of children learning to read in Spanish.
  

• AP- Advanced Placement Spanish Test Tips
  The Advanced Placement (AP) Spanish exam is a language test to see how well students in the AP Spanish course understood the materials taught and how well they can read, write and speak the language. 

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Diccionario

Un diccionario cuenta con un portal muy completo. Con traducciones, sinónimos, formas verbales y mucho más.
http://www.woxikon.es/list_eng.php?c1=f&c2=a

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 Bilingual Education/Dual Language

• The Dual Language Training Institute
  The Dual Language Training Institute (DLTI) under the leadership of Dr. Leo Gomez and Dr. Richard Gomez is a leading force in dual language programs. Over the last 13 years, they have been extensively involved in the development, implementation and assessment of dual language education programs successfully implementing the Gómez & Gómez 50/50 Dual Language Enrichment Model, they originally developed in 1996. Their model is currently being implemented in school districts across the states of Texas, Washington, and Nevada. 
• NABE
  NABE: The National Association for Bilingual Education is the only professional organization at the national level devoted to representing Bilingual Learners and Bilingual Education professionals. 

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