FREE RESOURCES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING

Virtual Resources and Activities for Students and Teachers

• Storyboard: https://www.storyboardthat.com (cartoon layouts - can be used as a writing activity or to make cartoons to create reading activities)
• Cube creator from ReadWriteThink.org: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/cube-creator-30850.html
• Study Stack: https://www.studystack.com/ (learn through games)
• Duolingo (free, online) https://www.duolingo.com/ (visual aids, text, and audio, with pronunciation help for students to translate using new word recall strategies)
• Memrise (free, online/offline) https://www.memrise.com/ (a great collection of everyday conversational phrases and videos of native speakers using the language in daily conversations)
• Busuu (free basic version, online/offline) https://www.busuu.com/ (hear native speakers talk; take quizzes at every level)
• Digital Dialects: https://www.digitaldialects.com/ (language learning activities & vocabulary practice games)
• UDL (Universal Design for Learning): http://udlguidelines.cast.org/
• Cartoon layout (summarizing through pictures): http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/games-tools/mystery-cube-a-30188.html

• UDL-aligned strategies: https://goalbookapp.com/toolkit/v/strategies (High-level thinking skills strategies)
• Audacity: www.audacity.com (Audio recording app to record and edit conversations or presentations)
• Flip Grid: www.flipgrid.com (1=3 Minutes videos-short answers and brief presentations)
• You Tube: www.youtube.com (videos about vocabulary, authentic resources, documentaries,  interviews, etc.)
• Quizlet: https://quizlet.com/features/flashcards (Flashcards, vocabulary reviews, and games)
• Cube creator from ReadWriteThink.org: http://bit.ly/2kxtPML

• Edpuzzle: https://edpuzzle.com/login/teacher (Interactive video editor for quizzes or listening comprehension)
• Think-Pair-Share Strategies: http://www.adlit.org/strategies/23277/
• The Frayer Model: http://bit.ly/2jZ82gy
• Cornell or Two-column Note Taking: http://bit.ly/2k3AT3n 
• Rubistar: http://bit.ly/2kwF4VG (create rubrics)
• Reading Rockets: https://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/think_alouds (think-aloud strategies)
• Reading Rockets: https://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/raft (RAFT strategy)
• Anticipation Guides: http://www.adlit.org/strategies/19712/
• Teaching and Learning through Graphic Organizers:  http://www.inspiration.com/visual-learning/graphic-organizers

Professional Learning Resources for Teachers

• HISD Literacy Routines for Sheltered Instruction: https://houstonisdpsd.org/literacy-routines
• 7Steps to a Language-rich, Interactive Foreign Language Classroom (Anna Matis, John Seidlitz)
• Using the Newly Revised Can-Do Statements to make Learning Transparent: http://bit.ly/2m1c0Gf 
• Checking for Understanding: http://bit.ly/2lBnq3n
• Performance Assessments: http://bit.ly/2kwPiFr
• Going For 90% Plus: How to Stay in the Target Language: http://bit.ly/2lZFxQx
• Learning Targets: http://bit.ly/2m3ezaZ
• Making The Interpersonal Mode As Easy As Possible For Novice Learners: http://bit.ly/2k8ueoK
• COERLL: http://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/ (Foreign Language Teaching Methods)
  • Language Teaching Methods
  • Blog
• NPR: “Hidden Brain”
  • “Watch Your Mouth”
  • “Lost in Translation: The Power Of Language To Shape How We View The World"