Teaching and Learning Strategies

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How to Develop Annotating and Note-Taking Skills in Your Secondary ESL Class

Mastering close reading and annotating strategies is essential to meaningfully engage with any text. We often instruct our learners to...

A Low-Prep Activity to Wrap Up Your Novel Unit

Are you looking for a creative but low-prep project idea for your novel study unit? Then, keep on reading. I had been brainstorming...

How I Kick-Start the New School Year in My Secondary ESL Class

I am always nervous when I begin a new school year even though I have been doing this for a while now. I usually start getting ready...

Using Single-Point Rubrics in the Secondary ESL Class to Support Learning

Offering more constructive feedback on your ESL learners' performance rather than assigning a number to their work might help them...

5 Non-Traditional Grammar Review Activities for the Secondary ESL Class

Who says that grammar reviews or assessment should be done only by using pencil and paper? In this blog post, I am presenting 5...

Activities to Prompt Great Reading Responses to Texts

Responding to texts is a complex cognitive process that requires learners not only to show their understanding of explicit and implicit...

How to Efficiently Use Corrective Feedback in Your ESL Class

Are you the type of teacher who corrects every single linguistic error in your students' writing or rather the one who offers lots of...

Tips to Make Remote Teaching Less Overwhelming

No one becomes an expert in teaching online overnight. Yet, we must do our best to provide continuity of learning while facing the...

Flexibility and Adaptability: Skills Any ESL Teacher Should Possess

Flexibility and adaptability are among the most important skills any teacher should possess to foster learners’ curiosity and cognitive enga

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