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Academic Writing Exercises

Academic Writing Exercises

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This is a collection of interactive Google Forms to complement a series of instructional videos by Shaun Macleod and Mark Roberts of SmrtEnglish. Each exercise includes a short video along with original, self-grading comprehension questions and analysis of contextual grammar examples designed for upper-level writing students of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). When you click on a link below, you will be prompted to save a copy of the form to your own Google Drive. This allows you to edit the form as you wish and ensures that the data you collect from your students go to your computer. If you have questions or feedback, please feel free to contact me at timothy.krause@pcc.edu.

Subject:: Language Education (ESL); Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Material Type:: Assessment
Author:: Timothy Krause
Date Added:: 07/25/2018

Alphabet Sounds - Literacy Level Adult ESOL

Alphabet Sounds - Literacy Level Adult ESOL

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Resources for learning the abc Letter Names and Sounds. Originally created for adult English learners who are not literate in their native language. Each letter corresponds with a picture word to help memorize the letter sounds. Flashcards, an abc chart, and a wall chart are available to download. Game ideas area also included.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Game; Interactive
Author:: Jennifer Christenson
Date Added:: 01/28/2016

Basic Spelling Lists - Adult ESOL

Basic Spelling Lists - Adult ESOL

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This is a collection of basic spelling lists with corresponding image collections that teach basic English phonics principles. The lists were created for Adult ESOL Literacy Learners, but could be adapted for other ages and levels as well.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Game; Interactive
Author:: Jennifer Christenson
Date Added:: 01/28/2016

Communication with Hamilton

Communication with Hamilton

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When I first heard Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton I was, like everyone else, immediately blown away by its combination of music, history, emotion and empowerment. My second reaction is one only teachers can relate to: asking “How can I use this in my teaching?” I’ve been working on this project since 2015. Thanks to a grant from Open Oregon, I’ve been able to improve my materials and create a workbook that I hope will let others access this incredible musical.

The workbook is designed to be used over a 10-week college communication course. It is designed to cover academic listening, pronunciation, and public speaking, using a thematic approach tied to the musical Hamilton. Ideally, students would access the workbook in print form, as it is meant to be an interactive “notebook” which will be filled with notes by the end of term.

Subject:: Language Education (ESL)
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: Portland Community College
Author:: Davina Ramirez
Date Added:: 06/28/2019

ESL College Transition: Listening & Speaking

ESL College Transition: Listening & Speaking

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We created this site to share the lesson plans and other materials that we use in this Listening/Speaking Level F class with other ESL teachers -- click around and use what works for you! This is a 10-week course at LCC, but you can pick and choose from the 8 chapters for a shorter or longer term. The chapters can be covered in any order.

Lane Community College's Intensive English Language Program offers 6 levels (A=beginner, F=college transition). This site was designed for Listening/Speaking Level F, which is a class that teaches listening and note-taking strategies focused especially on lecture listening, as well as presentation, pronunciation, conversation, and academic discussion skills.

LCC ESL Students in Level F take three separate intensive classes (Writing, Listening/Speaking, and Reading for a total of 20 in-class contact hours per week). Prior to the re-imagining of this class and the creation of this site, each Level F class had a different textbook with different thematic progressions. Students experienced cognitive overload with the demand to learn the vocabulary, concepts, and skills of the three separate classes. In addition, students in our department are often from marginalized backgrounds and can find it financially difficult to purchase the three separate textbooks.

In order to lessen students' financial and cognitive burdens and create more connections between the three classes, we used the topics from the Reading textbook (Academic Encounters Level 4: Reading and Writing, 2nd edition, Cambridge 2014) to find freely-available authentic videos or recorded audio for the Listening/Speaking class.

Over the past year, students have expressed appreciation for the reduced cost of taking the course. In addition, they have shown increased interest and engagement in the course due to the authentic, real-life materials and complementary nature of the three Level F classes.

Subject:: Language Education (ESL)
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment; Lesson Plan; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:: Annick Todd; Colleen Shields; Dave Schenderlein; Jen Sacklin; Maggie Mitteis
Date Added:: 05/28/2019

ESOL News Oregon

ESOL News Oregon

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ESOL News Oregon is a website that offers short articles adapted from regional news sources about current events in the state. Stories are labeled with word counts and Lexile levels. Each is accompanied by an image, self-correcting exercises, and source citations.

Subject:: Language Education (ESL)
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Interactive; Reading
Author:: Timothy Krause
Date Added:: 09/18/2018

Remix

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Emergency and Disaster Preparedness website from King County Washington

Has graphic novels and information in multiple languages about what to do to prepare for or deal with disasters. Print and video.

Subject:: Education
Material Type:: Reading
Author:: Jennifer Hall
Date Added:: 08/08/2019

Endothermic Exothermic Visual Vocabulary

Endothermic Exothermic Visual Vocabulary

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This resource is for English Language Learners or English Learners to help them visualize new vocabulary to increase depth of learning.

Subject:: Physical Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration
Author:: Marquelle Adkins
Date Added:: 07/11/2017

FUN WITH ENGLISH 7B & 8B: Unofficial Teacher's Handbook

FUN WITH ENGLISH 7B & 8B: Unofficial Teacher's Handbook

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A teacher's guide for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in China using the 《牛津初中英语·同步听力(七年级上)》 FUN WITH ENGLISH 7B (ISBN-13: 978-7-80657-707-3) & 《牛津初中英语·同步听力(八年级上)》 FUN WITH ENGLISH 8B (ISBN: 978-7-80657-844-5) books. Based on the Wikiversity resource of the same name. Copyright (C) 2011 Wikiversity. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licensed.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities
Material Type:: Lesson Plan
Provider:: Wikiversity
Author:: Wikiversity
Date Added:: 05/10/2011

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Fishy Fun

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This material contains 5 incomplete tongue twisters.Student will complete each line by adding the same letter. Students practice saying the tongue twisters in pairs and/or with the instructor. Second activity has fishing vocabulary with missing first and last letters and matching definitions.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Language Education (ESL)
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Interactive
Provider:: http://americanenglish.state.gov (English Teaching Forum, Number 2 2011)
Author:: unknown
Date Added:: 10/23/2014

Games "how", "how many", "how much" etc. - Literacy Level Adult ESOL

Games "how", "how many", "how much" etc. - Literacy Level Adult ESOL

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A series of activities and games to practice the question words "how", "how many", "how much", "how long", and "how old". The lessons are designed for Adult English Learners at a low literacy level, but could easily be adapted for K-12 ESOL settings as well.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Game; Interactive
Author:: Jennifer Christenson
Date Added:: 01/28/2016

Home and School: Ten Easy Picture Stories for Beginning Students of English

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Home and School: Ten Easy Picture Stories for Beginning Students of English

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This book contains 10 easy picture stories for beginning students of English. The stories have a Lexile level of 100L-500L and address common home and school situations. Each story includes images, self-correcting comprehension exercises, and a conversation prompt.

Subject:: Language Education (ESL)
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: OpenOregon
Author:: Timothy Krause
Date Added:: 11/01/2018

Intro to Academic Writing for ESOL

Intro to Academic Writing for ESOL

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The materials here were selected for ESOL learners who have intermediate-high intermediate writing skills and are starting more "academic" levels of course work in order to transition into college-level composition courses.

Subject:: English Language Arts
Material Type:: Interactive; Lecture Notes; Textbook
Provider:: Delpha Thomas
Author:: Delpha Thomas
Date Added:: 02/07/2018

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Listen Up!

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This activity deals with the concept of rhyming. This concept is not immediately understood by most students and needs to be explained first with ample examples. The activity consists of groups of 3 words two of which rhyme and one doesn't. Students read the words or listen to the instructor and select the word that doesn't rhyme. They are then directed to pick a specific letter from the "wrong" word and write it in a separate column. After completing the assignment students unscramble the letters trying to form a meaningful expression related to listening which in this case is "I'm all ears".

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Language Education (ESL)
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Game; Interactive
Provider:: americanenglish.state.gov (Teaching Forum #4 2012)
Author:: not stated
Date Added:: 10/21/2014

PCC OER: A Digital Workbook for Beginning ESOL

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PCC OER: A Digital Workbook for Beginning ESOL

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This book contains three levels of interactive grammar lessons and reading activities for beginning students of ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages). The grammar section includes a select set of YouTube videos, and the three original readers include short picture or chapter stories. Each lesson is accompanied by self-correcting exercises.

Subject:: Language Education (ESL)
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: OpenOregon
Author:: Davida Jordan; Eric Dodson; Timothy Krause
Date Added:: 05/01/2019

Portland People and Places: Stories from the Rose City for Beginner Students of English

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Portland People and Places: Stories from the Rose City for Beginner Students of English

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This book contains nine short stories about people and places of Portland, Oregon written for beginner students of English (lexile range of 300-500). Each story has approximately 150-250 words. It is formatted as a picture book with approximately 1-3 sentences per illustration. Each story is accompanied by a set of self-correcting comprehension questions and a speaking prompt. All images are public domain except where noted in the alt text.

Subject:: Language Education (ESL)
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: OpenOregon
Author:: Timothy Krause
Date Added:: 12/01/2018

Pronunciation Videos - Manythings.org and Rachel's English

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Pronunciation Videos - Manythings.org and Rachel's English

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This ESL resource site presents Rachel's English pronunciation videos in an organized fashion. Each video is focused on a different phonetic sound used while speaking English.

Subject:: Language Education (ESL)
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lecture
Provider:: Many Things; Rachel's English
Date Added:: 10/31/2015

Read Faster, Understand More: Advanced Academic Reading Skills for English Language Learners Compiled by Timothy Krause

Read Faster, Understand More: Advanced Academic Reading Skills for English Language Learners Compiled by Timothy Krause

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ESOL Reading Level 8 ESOL 260

This advanced academic reading curriculum for English language learners features eight units, each focusing on a different reading skill. Each unit includes presentation slides with a graphic organizer for taking notes; two readings with comprehension questions; academic vocabulary exercises of terms drawn from the readings; and an extension activity. Materials include student textbook, teacher textbook (with answer key and Quizlet links), and presentation slides.

Course Description
Presents reading as a process that involves determination of purpose, selection and adjustment of strategies, analysis and reflection of underlying meanings, and integration of prior knowledge with new knowledge to address the purpose. Covers content comprehension, textual analysis, critical thinking skills, study skills, and language analysis at the high advanced level. Includes reading diverse texts for a variety of purposes. Includes finding themes and main ideas, analyzing figurative language, summarizing, paraphrasing, evaluating sources and analyzing arguments, inferencing, and using context clues, word forms and common affixes. Prerequisites: ESOL placement test OR successful completion of ESOL 250 AND concurrent enrollment in or completion of (ESOL 252 and ESOL 254) or placement into (ESOL 262 and ESOL 264). Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Understand the development of reading as a process that involves determination of purpose, selection and adjustment of strategies, analysis and reflection of underlying meanings, and integration of prior with new knowledge to address the purpose.
Acquire and use words and phrases found in high advanced-level academic and everyday texts.
Accurately read high advanced level academic and everyday texts which include dense or long complex sentences and paragraphs with appropriate pacing, phrasing, and expression.
Choose from a range of strategies, including some sophisticated ones and integrate them to monitor and/or enhance text comprehension.
Form and express an opinion and draw conclusions based on the information found in high advanced-level academic and everyday texts.

Subject:: Language Education (ESL)
Material Type:: Lesson; Textbook
Author:: Timothy Krause
Date Added:: 06/21/2019

Seven Wonders of Oregon: A Travel Book for High-Beginner/Low-Intermediate ESOL Students

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Seven Wonders of Oregon: A Travel Book for High-Beginner/Low-Intermediate ESOL Students

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This book contains nine short stories about natural wonders of Oregon written for high-beginner/low-intermediate students of English (lexile range of 500-600). Each story is approximately 225-250 words long and features a picture, a set of self-correcting comprehension questions, a writing prompt, and full citations of sources with links.

Subject:: Language Education (ESL)
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: OpenOregon
Author:: Timothy Krause
Date Added:: 09/01/2018

Short Stories for ESOL

Short Stories for ESOL

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This site contains links to PDF and Word versions of workbooks, along with supplemental materials, for ESOL Reading 6, 7, and 8.

Reading 6 Course Description:
Presents reading as a process that involves determination of purpose, selection and adjustment of strategies, analysis and reflection of underlying meanings, and integration of prior knowledge with new knowledge to address the purpose. Covers content comprehension, textual analysis, critical thinking skills, study skills, and language analysis at the high intermediate level. Includes reading diverse texts for a variety of purposes. Reviews pre-reading techniques and includes finding themes and main ideas, summarizing, paraphrasing, inferencing, and using context clues, word forms and common affixes.

Reading 7 Course Description:
Presents reading as a process that involves determination of purpose, selection and adjustment of strategies, analysis and reflection of underlying meanings, and integration of prior knowledge with new knowledge to address the purpose. Covers content comprehension, textual analysis, critical thinking skills, study skills, and language analysis at the advanced level. Includes reading diverse texts for a variety of purposes. Reviews pre-reading techniques and includes finding themes and main ideas, analyzing figurative language, summarizing, paraphrasing, inferencing, and using context clues, word forms and common affixes.

Reading 8 Course Description:
Presents reading as a process that involves determination of purpose, selection and adjustment of strategies, analysis and reflection of underlying meanings, and integration of prior knowledge with new knowledge to address the purpose. Covers content comprehension, textual analysis, critical thinking skills, study skills, and language analysis at the high advanced level. Includes reading diverse texts for a variety of purposes. Includes finding themes and main ideas, analyzing figurative language, summarizing, paraphrasing, evaluating sources and analyzing arguments, inferencing, and using context clues, word forms and common affixes.

Subject:: Language Education (ESL)
Material Type:: Lecture; Textbook
Provider:: Portland Community College
Author:: Davina Ramirez
Date Added:: 10/10/2019