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The Curriculum and Instruction Department serves the Hickory Public Schools by coordinating system-wide curricular efforts, textbook adoptions and professional development (which includes the SEA System). We act as a clearing house and point of contact for instructional resources. In addition, the C and I department also facilitates instructional planning and improvement efforts including addressing issues of equity and drop-out prevention. |
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 Grade Level : 3-5 (18) | | Subject : Language Arts (7) |
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Florida Center for Reading Research
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This site is filled with student learning activities using the five strands of literacy.
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Reading Rockets
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Reading Rockets includes articles good for personal professional development, strategies for struggling readers, and family resources.
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Working with Words
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This website contains lots of resources for working with words.
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The Reading Lady
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This website has 95 different Reader's Theater plays to focus on reading fluency. Many are adapted from popular children's books. This site is great for younger children and for ELL's.
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Open Court Resources
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There are many, many resources to compliment the Open Court reading program. You can find vocabulary ideas, workshop/center activities, worksheets, and other ideas to use directly with each unit.
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The School Bell
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Great site with Dolch, word cards, folder games and so much more for literacy. Great for K-2 and remediation for 3-5.
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Reading A-Z
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This site provides access to thousands of leveled books and other reading materials.
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| Subject : Math (3) |
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The Math Worksheet Site
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This website is great for creating hundreds boards or quick drills for addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division facts. Other topics such as measurement are also posted. Another convenient aspect of this site is the multiple ways to have problems presented as well as the numerous combinations of the facts on a page. Each student could have a different order of problems on his or her worksheet (like for drill) so copying would be much harder.
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Fractals
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Kids Memory
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Fun games that help students learn how to memorize, and prioritize information.
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| Subject : Multiple (7) |
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I Know That!
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This website includes interactive stories in all subjects. There are several illustrated math word problems and language games.
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Computer Lab Kids
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K-5 material is presented as computer games. It is divided into each nine week period for each grade level. Implementing this site would work well as a classroom presentation on a TV monitor as well.
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Family Fun Magazine
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Activities, crafts, theme ideas, party ideas, printables, games, travel stuff and more.
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Printable Worksheets
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This site offers a variety of free printable worksheets for k-5 grade in every subject -- great for homework!
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School Express
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This site contains free lesson plans, worksheets, online games and math practice, as well as educational resources. There is also an online store but plenty of free resources.
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Busy Teacher's Cafe
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This K-6 site offers ideas for theme units, literacy centers, classroom management and much more
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Crayola
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"Explore this site for hands-on learning experiences that can be searched by subject, theme, grade, media, and completion time. There are many ideas for crafts corresponding to lesson plans."
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| Subject : Science (1) |
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Water Resources
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This website provides excellent information, activity ideas, and games for students. The content includes information on watersheds, wetlands, streams, water quality, and environmental protection.
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| Grade Level : 6-8 (17) | | Subject : Language Arts (1) |
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Literary Elements Game
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This game is a great way for students to review literary elements!
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| Subject : Math (7) |
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Shodor
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Has interactive math and science activities that allow students to manipulate certain variables in different experiments and view the results.
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Math Counts
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This site offers problems of the week (with solutions), a "Go Figure" challenge, and other resources. These problems are aligned with the NCTM standards for grades 6-8.
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The Math Worksheet Site
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This website is great for creating hundreds boards or quick drills for addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division facts. Other topics such as measurement are also posted. Another convenient aspect of this site is the multiple ways to have problems presented as well as the numerous combinations of the facts on a page. Each student could have a different order of problems on his or her worksheet (like for drill) so copying would be much harder.
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Math in Daily Life
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This site helps students apply math to daily life, from population growth and science to finances and cooking.
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Fractals
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Ti Middle Grades
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This website has math and science activities you can use on the TI graphing calculator TI-73.
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Kids Memory
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Fun games that help students learn how to memorize, and prioritize information.
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| Subject : Multiple (2) |
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Seventh Grade Skills Review
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This middle school resource tests students' understanding of seventh grade skills.
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Kids Online Tech Training
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Short video clips on technology topics such as security, copyright, web design, etc. Information is presented in format and language that students can understand.
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| Subject : Science (6) |
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Shodor
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Has interactive math and science activities that allow students to manipulate certain variables in different experiments and view the results.
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Brainiac Video
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Excellent video on the reactivites of the alkali metals.
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E-Mentoring
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The link is to the NSTA website for e-mentoring for teachers with 1-3 years experience in the science classroom.
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comPADRE
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The comPADRE Pathway, a part of the National Science Digital Library, is a growing network of educational resource collections supporting teachers and students in Physics and Astronomy.
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Water Resources
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This website provides excellent information, activity ideas, and games for students. The content includes information on watersheds, wetlands, streams, water quality, and environmental protection.
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TI Middle Grades
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This website has math and science activities you can use on the TI graphing calculator TI-73.
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| Subject : Social Studies (1) |
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Primary Resources for Social Studies Teachers
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Teachers of social studies courses can find a variety or materials and resources for the classroom.
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| Grade Level : 9-12 (35) | | Subject : Language Arts (3) |
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The Writing Center -- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Teachers will find fantastic student and faculty resources to improve their students' writing. There are outstanding handouts that deal with everything from plaigarism,to paragraph-level instruction. For teachers, there are tips for good writing instruction and handouts to help students analyze research sources and structure solid research writing.
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Outta Ray's Head
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This site offers English teachers a variety of lesson plans, instructional strategies, and ideas by genre, grade level, etc. The plans and handouts are submitted by teachers from all over the US. This is a great site for getting new ideas for teaching literature and grammar.
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Web English Teacher
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This site offers GREAT lesson plan ideas for high school English teachers.
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| Subject : Math (5) |
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Shodor
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Has interactive math and science activities that allow students to manipulate certain variables in different experiments and view the results.
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S.O.S. Mathematics
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S.O.S. MATHematics includes useful tutorials in algebra, trigonometry, calculus and other advanced topics.
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The University of Cambridge
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The University of Cambridge runs a fabulous site with new enrichment activities for elementary, junior high, high school and college-level students, every month.
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Purple Math
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Free Online Tutoring, Lessons, Quizzes, and Worksheets.
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Seeing Math
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Free online math tools
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| Subject : Multiple (8) |
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New York Regents Exam
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This site contains released versions of the New York Regents Exam in several subject areas.
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The Girls, Math & Science Partnership
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The Girls Math & Science Partnership encourages and inspires teen girls interested in math and science.
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AP Central
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The link will take a teacher to AP Central where many resources exist for the AP teacher.
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Quia
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Teachers will find more than 100 categories/subject areas with activities, games, quizzes, and more . . .
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Don Quijote
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You must sign up for an account, but it offers "words of the day," games, ideas for games, teaching strategies, etc. It's great!
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TeacherLine
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Online professional development for renewal credits. Variety of resources for free.
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Kids Online Tech Training
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Short video clips on technology topics such as security, copyright, web design, etc. Information is presented in format and language that students can understand.
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Hippo Campus
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This site offers students an opportunity to have "virtual" class as they can look up information relevant to their assignments or readings. Teachers can use this site as an instructional strategy to meet the needs of visual learners.
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| Subject : Science (18) |
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Shodor
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Has interactive math and science activities that allow students to manipulate certain variables in different experiments and view the results.
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Chemthink
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This is a self paced tutorial on basic concepts in chemistry.
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Chem Team
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This site offers a great tutorial on virtually every area of chemistry covered in the NCSCoS.
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E-mentoring
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The link is to the NSTA website for e-mentoring for teachers with 1-3 years experience in the science classroom.
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comPADRE
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The comPADRE Pathway, a part of the National Science Digital Library, is a growing network of educational resource collections supporting teachers and students in Physics and Astronomy
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Chemistry Demonstrations
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This site provides ideas for lots of interesting chemistry demonstrations.
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Steve's Place
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Teachers can find lots of great information about all kinds of science.
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Terrific Science
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There are suggested science activities that could be performed in the classroom. One feature is an area that develops Parent Night science activities.
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Ohm's Law Activities
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This site provides interactive activities allowing students to create electrical circuitry investigating Ohm's Law. These activities provide a method to help make this concept more relevant to their lives.
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Diamagnetic Levitation
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This site helps teachers to explain and demonstrate the concept of electromagnetic phenomena.
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Ohm's Law
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This site further explores Ohm's Law using interactive and user friendly computer technology.
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SciLinks
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This resource is tied to various science books and was set up by the publishers. It offers demos and other science activities on various levels of instruction.
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Atomic Spectra Information
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This site offers a visual demonstration of aspects surrounding the phenomena of various interactions of atoms. This site aids students in visualizing these particles that cannot be seen even with a microscope.
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Entomology
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This site offers various lesson plans for teachers as well as interactive information for kids of all ages pertaining to insects. It also offers explorations of the interactions of these animals with their environment.
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The Periodic Table
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This site offers the history of the organization of the Periodic Table as well as an interactive way that students may explore in depth the various elements represented on the table.
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Biology Corner
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This site offers interactive lesson plans in the field of Biology.
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Agricultural Science
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This site is good to demonstrate the relevance of various science topics taught in Environmental Science and Biology. It is also very user-friendly!
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Agricultural Science
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This site is good to demonstrate the relevance of various science topics taught in Environmental Science and Biology. It is also very user-friendly!
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| Subject : Social Studies (1) |
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Primary Resources for Social Studies Teachers
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Teachers of social studies courses can find a variety or materials and resources for the classroom.
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| Grade Level : K-12 (94) | | Subject : Arts (2) |
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Music Theory
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Quick, easy interactive drills for a number of musical concepts from note reading to chord construction. I use it with advanced students in IB Music for drill, to help my beginning players learn to read and to increase reading speed and accuracy with intermediate players
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Crayola
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"Explore this site for hands-on learning experiences that can be searched by subject, theme, grade, media, and completion time. There are many ideas for crafts corresponding to lesson plans."
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| Subject : ESL (4) |
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Babel Fish Alta Vista
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This site can help teachers communicate on the phone and in the office when conversing with a spanish-speaking person.
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Dave's ESL Cafe
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This website is great for ESL teachers, but not only for us. It has great games and teacher-submitted ideas for all language arts teachers to jazz up our lessons.
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Rubistar en Espanol
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This site is great! It would be wonderful for all Spanish teachers. When you go into Rubistar you have the option at the bottom righthand side of the page to choose Rubistar en español. All of your choices for input are in Spanish and you can add your own | |
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