Rita Moltzan is a teaching librarian at the Raffles American School, Johor. Read Write Speak it Meets SWI! My 4th grade ELL class and I have been using and enjoying the “Read Write Speak It” resources for this whole school year. In August, we started our school year online due to Covid 19 restrictions …
When to teach vocabulary: Recently Sara and I were presenting at the Sunshine State Teachers of English as a Second Language conference – virtually of course – although a dose of sunshine would have been a great respite from the windy and chilly weather we’re experiencing here in Northeast Ohio. After we introduced our resource …
What about the standards? Okay – Sara and I know the reality of the teaching world and the love hate relationship with standards. Everyone can agree that standards are a good foundation to ground a curriculum. I mean every kid should know how to add and subtract, how to craft a grammatically correct sentence and …
We are teacher groupies. RWS has from the beginning been designed to be a teacher-led program. While we wholeheartedly believe in the value of student choice when it comes to classroom instruction, we also know that teacher choice is just as important. We do not think sticking a kid in the back of the classroom …
RWS Goes Virtual: Summer School in the Rio Grande Valley Read More »
We are absolutely gleeful when teachers take our ideas and make them better. Kari Boazman is an educator we have worked with in such faraway places as Harare, Zimbabwe and Budapest, Hungary. She just started at a new post in NYC at Nord Anglia International School New York (NAISNY) and used our ice breaker exercise, …
I Am to Be! Students Speak from Nord Anglia International School New York Read More »
Proven Steps to Reading, Writing, and Oral Proficiency for all students.
