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1 Comment Category: How to Read (VIDEOS)
Tags: Boost, Comprehension, Reading, Reciprocal, Strategies, teaching, Using

Students using reciprocal teaching activities to improve their understanding of a passage of narrative text. Reciprocal teaching strategies support adolescent literacy skills development by helping to create a dialog between students and teacher about a passage of text. Both the students and teacher take turns acting as the instructor and asking text comprehension questions. The program being used in this example is SRA Read to Achieve – a middle school and high school literacy intervention program from SRA/McGraw-Hill.
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2 Comments Category: Adult Literacy
Tags: Adopt, ADRA, Thailand, Village

Partnering with poor, marginalised ethnic hilltribe communities in the Wiang Pa Pao and Mae Suai districts of Chiang Rai, ADRA Thailand’s Adopt a Village project takes a holistic approach to community development. Community consultation is crucial in identifying key needs and appropriate solutions. Current activities include micro-finance, the establishment of credit unions, citizenship assistance & advocacy, water security & sanitation, educational scholarships & life skills training, adult literacy, product processing & value adding, group marketing, and sustainable agriculture / animal husbandry. The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is a global humanitarian organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, following Christs…

25 Comments Category: ESL Videos
Tags: correctly, English, hear, Listen, speaking, Tell, Them

www.engVid.com I hear a lot of students making mistakes with these four simple words: ’say’, ‘tell’, ‘hear’, and ‘listen’. In this lesson, I explain how to use them correctly.
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Write Comment Category: General Literacy
Tags: Alphabet, Letters, Phonics, sounds

See more at my channel www.youtube.com An introduction to the d phoneme and the D grapheme.
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25 Comments Category: ESL Videos
Tags: bored, boring, English, Grammar

www.engVid.com I’m bored? I’m boring? Not sure of the difference? Better watch this lesson then, or you could be saying something rather rude about yourself!
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20 Comments Category: ESL Videos
Tags: Phrasal, turn, Verbs

www.engVid.com If you don’t know what “turn around” or “turn down” mean then you need this lesson… watch it now!
Rating: 4 | Views: 16468

1 Comment Category: General Literacy
Tags: Phonics

See more at my channel www.youtube.com Play the clip and afterwards write down as many ie words as you can remember. Double points for any extra words with the ie sound!!
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3 Comments Category: English Punctuation Videos
Tags: Apostrophe, English, Grammar, Punctuation

An apostrophe can be used to show ownership, and it can be used in conjunction with contractions. Find out when to use apostrophes with plural subjects and verbs with help from a certified tutor in this free video on punctuation and the English language. Expert: Paige Carrera Bio: Paige Carrera is a certified tutor for both Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
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Write Comment Category: Illiteracy VIDEOS
Tags: Access, Arabic

This 30-second PSA created by Madinat Hamad Women Society (Bahrain Women Union) humorously depicts a young mother whose young children know more about technology than she does. In the first scene, three young children cry for her attention while clutching their favorite electronics in hand Mom, I have an assignment to do! Mom, I want to play on the computer!. They sweep her from the kitchen to the family room as she resists and shouts that she does not know how to use a computer. The next scene pictures the children dressing their mother in electronics and pulling on her…

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Write Comment Category: Adult Literacy
Tags: Health, Literacy, Vaccines

Looking to teach health literacy? Check out: Check out www.project-read.com Project Read, an Adult Literacy Program located in Utah County, is running a new health literacy course aimed at teaching the basics of doctors’ orders, prescriptions and other nutrition-related directions.
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