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Interactive Summaries: A how-to plan for busy teachers

By savageward on September 7, 2014 • ( 1 Comment )

Summaries are difficult to teach. For a summary to be effective, several reading and writing skills must align. On the reading side, students need to identify purpose and audience, understand text organization, and distinguish between main ideas, major supporting points, and minor details. On the writing side, they […]

Putting the New GSL to work in the classroom

By savageward on September 2, 2014 • ( 2 Comments )

The General Service List has been around since 1953, when researcher Michael West used a 2.5 million corpus to identify the 2000 most important, high-frequency word families English learners needed to know. The GSL has been an indispensable tool for teachers in helping them know which words deserve […]

The Vocabulary-Grammar Continuum: A third approach to activity design

By savageward on August 30, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

We have recently published an article for the TESOL AEIS newsletter on the “vocabulary-grammar continuum,” presenting how vocabulary, word forms, and grammar may be taught together rather than separately.  We also look at how teachers might handle high-frequency word lists by categorizing words into content, grammar, and “shadow” words.  The article […]

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