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The Best Places To Get Different Leveled Short Texts To Assess Reading Fluency NWimagesbySabrinaE / Pixabay
When I would get a new student into my ELL classes, one of the assessments I always did was have them read a short passage out load to me to give me a sense of their English reading proficiency. Here are the places where I would get those passages though, of course, you can always just have an AI chatbot generate one for you (you also be interested in The Best Resources On Reading Fluency (Including How To Measure It)): Edhelper was always my favorite, though you have to pay a few bucks for a subscription. And that’s about it. I guess this is a short-and-sweet “Best” list!      Here’s Some Great Advice For New Teachers At Your School geralt / Pixabay
You may know some new teachers who are trying to figure things out right now (my grandson has just begun his first year of teaching!). If you do, you could do them a favor by sharing The Best Advice For New Teachers.  Sentences Of The Week geralt / Pixabay
I thought readers might, or might not, find this new regular post useful. Each week, I highlight several sentences, with links to their sources, that I find interesting/concerning/useful. And they may, or may not, be directly connected to education. I may also include my own comments or related links. This regular post will join my other regular ones on teaching ELLs, education policy, Artificial Intelligence, infographics, and Pinterest highlights, not to mention sharing of my regular Education Week posts. Here are this week’s sentences: A former Assistant U.S. Attorney described the ground plan in Minnesota: “They were, like, ‘Occupy Minneapolis like it was Falluja.’ ” If we have to wait for person after person to experience the brutality of this administration before we wake up, then we’ll inflict an immense amount of pain on our country. But if, instead, we could place ourselves in the shoes of the immigrant in chains, then we can see the injustice more plainly. As we watch our neighbors being detained and deported, we see that we are not losing the “worst of the worst,” but people who embody some of the best American ideals: hard work, selfless contribution, and a desire to build a better future for their families and communities. Kids today use phones mainly to communicate with their friends about the incomprehensible stuff they find interesting. They gossip, fight, explore, flirt, nerd out, bully each other, and forge friendships—just like they would in person, if their parents would ever let them hang out unsupervised. “You have the full authority to enforce your laws,” he said, “but, please, you don’t have to chain the people. You don’t have to destroy human beings.” “Move fast and break things,” Mark Zuckerberg famously said, decreeing a motto not just for Facebook but for the tech sector writ large. But it’s our children, people now worry, who these technologies seem to be breaking. Is it possible that unrecorded history is just as important as recorded history? See THE BEST – & MOST INTERESTING – RESOURCES FOR STUDYING HISTORY Bel was desperate, and his death is a kind of murder, but what the U.S. is doing to itself is simply suicide. “People hate what they don’t understand,” Olie said. “But if they would just hang out with someone who is trans or go to a drag show, they would see the healing joy, and in about 10 minutes their preconceived notions will not be there.” One of the important findings from research has been that genes don’t play a large role in whether we’re on a journey to the brain cliff or when we might reach it. That means the environment and how we live matter hugely and that’s what the cognitive super-agers I interviewed illustrated. The study concludes that integrating group-based tasks into the ESL classroom creates a supportive environment that enhances motivation and oral communication competence. “Kids don’t do their best for robots; kids do their best for people.”
 Yet Another Study Finds That English-Only ELL Classes Don’t Work As Well As A Positive Translanguaging Environment
In no surprise to ELL teachers, yet another study has found that “old-school” English-only ELL classes should be a thing of the past. You can learn more about it at Rethinking the English-only classroom: What happens when students can use their full language repertoire. I’m adding this info to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT TRANSLANGUAGING.  This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues
Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here): I’m adding this post to The Best Resources On Student Absenteeism:
American Psychological Association calls for higher ed tech standards, not screen bans in new report is from Chalkbeat. I’m adding it to The Best Analyses About The Role Of Ed Tech In Today’s Classrooms.
The Mystery of Steubenville is from The Education Daly.
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