fleetinglanguages

[fleetinglanguages]

[fleetinglanguages]

Small ways to activate your "happiness" chemicals

DOPAMINE: the reward chemical

• Complete a task

• Doing self care activites

• Eating some food

• Celebrating your little wins.

OXYTOCIN: the love hormones

• Playing with a dog

• Playing with a baby

• Holding hands

• Hugging someone

• Giving someone else a compliment

SEROTONIN: the mood stabiliser

• Meditating

• Running

• Be in the sun

• Walk in nature

• Swimming

ENDORPHIN: the pain relief

• Laughing exercises

• Essential oils

• Eating dark chocolate

• Running

[fleetinglanguages]

SIGHT WORDS: Always a Good Place to Start

ELL SIGHT WORDS PRACTICE

Teachers can help ESL students build reading fluency by teaching them to recognize common words on sight. 

Some activities that you can use in your classroom (even when that classroom in in your home or elsewhere) include Roll, Read, Write; a sight words parking lot; graphing; Zap It!; sentence combining with manipulatives; and Sight Word Bingo.

---------------------------------

SIGHT WORDS LISTS:

Fry List: http://www.amazon.com/1000-Instant-Words-Teaching-Spelling/dp/1576907570

Dolch List: http://www.dolchword.com/dolch-word-lists-pdf

General Service List: http://jbauman.com/gsl.html

Academic Word List: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/

Oxford Word List: http://www.oxfordwordlist.com/pages/search.asp

Composite List of Fry, Dolch, and General Service List: http://www.esltrail.com/2008/08/sight-words-vocabulary-list.html

READ MORE:

Engaging Activities to Teach Sight Words for Improved Reading Fluency by Heidi Hyte 

Vocabulary Development with ELLs by: Colorín Colorado

Strategies for Teaching Sight Words to English Language Learners by Ebtblue  

[fleetinglanguages]

Websites For Students to Read or Listen to Books Online - FREE

MAKE READING FUN FOR YOUR LEARNER!

Instantly access 35,000 high-quality books for kids

Epic! - Books for Kids

The leading digital library for kids offering unlimited access to 35,000 of the best children's books of all time. Sign up for a free 30 day trial to instantly access high-quality online books for kids, ebooks, audio books, quizzes, videos, and more.

Unite for Literacy library

Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages. Literacy is at the core of a healthy community, so we unite with partners to enable all families to read with their young children.

Storyline Online: Videos of actors reading children's books

Storyline Online

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Daytime Emmy nominated, Storyline Online, features celebrated actors including Viola Davis, Kristen Bell, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Wanda Sykes, Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Betty White and more reading children's books to inspire a love of reading in millions of children worldwide.

Oxford Owl for School and Home

Oxfordowl

Discover expert advice, educational resources and free eBooks to support children's learning at primary school and at home, from Oxford University Press.

ICDL - International Children's Digital Library

Childrenslibrary

First-time Visitors Library Members Book News A partnership with the University of Maryland's HCIL Library News and Notes COLLEGE PARK, MD: Thanks to help from our volunteer translator Kay Hong, the ICDL search tools are now available in Korean. View Korean interface.

READ ALOUDS - STORYTIME WITH RYAN & CRAIG

STORYTIME WITH RYAN & CRAIG

[fleetinglanguages]

Reading Resources: Take A Look, It's In A Book ... 😊

INTERNET ARCHIVE: is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

WE ARE TEACHERS: 13 Back-to-School Chapter Books to Kick Off the School Year.

TEACHING BOOKS: Start enjoying 355,501 resources about children's and young adult books.

[fleetinglanguages]

"Sadness is caused by intelligence. The more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn't understand them."

Charles Bukowski

[fleetinglanguages]

― João Guimarães Rosa, Gran Serton: Veredas

[fleetinglanguages]

Giselle

World Ballet, 1958

[fleetinglanguages]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor People

[fleetinglanguages]

Nikos Engonopoulos, from Bolívar, a Greek Poem

[fleetinglanguages]

“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

— Haruki Murakami

[fleetinglanguages]

A poem a day - Day 1

If you'd like to support my writing, you can purchase a paperback or ebook copy of my poetry book here, or if you'd like, you can leave a tip on my Ko-Fi page here.

[fleetinglanguages]

Yeye

[fleetinglanguages]

East of Eden, John Steinbeck.

[fleetinglanguages]

– Audrey Hepburn

[fleetinglanguages]

[fleetinglanguages]

Joan Didion, from Blue Nights