EL+Civics+Conference+2017

= Teaching EL Civics with Technology =

Annual Integrated EL Civics Conference 2017
Adult students need a strong vocabulary foundation in order to develop their literacy and use their English effectively in their communities. Learn a research –proven six step process that can be infused with technology to help students not only better learn and retain vocabulary but also move new terminology into their productive vocabulary knowledge. Discover resources appropriate to each step of direct vocabulary instruction.

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 * Password Game PowerPoint Template**


 * Web sites to use with students and Other Vocabulary Teaching and Learning Resources: **

[|A+FlashCards Pro] (app) [|Beginning Level Flashcards]and [|ESL Library.com] - print for in-class use [|Cram flashcards] – with app [|Flashcard Stash] [|Flashcards Deluxe] – with app [|Memrise] – use or create own vocabulary courses with interactive flashcards (beginning – advanced, TOEFL, business English, much more) - with app [|Quizlet] [|Study Blue] – with app [|Study Stack]
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[|English Language World] [|ESOL Help Online Picture Dictionary] [|Internet Picture Dictionary] [|Language Guide] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Learning Chocolate] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Madrid Teacher] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Merriam][|-][|Webster Visual Dictionary] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Photographic Dictionary] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Snappy Words] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|The Visual Dictionary] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Thinglink] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Visuwords Online Graphical Dictionary] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|VocabGrabber]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Visual/Picture Dictionaries: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Academic Word List Exercises] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Activities for ESL Students] vocabulary quizzes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|A Guide to Learning English – Academic Vocabulary Exercises] [|Articulate! Vocab Expander]-- Apple app Bitsboard with app <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Cloze Test Generator] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Cloze Test Creator] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Easy World of English] – Picture Dictionary and Readings <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Enchanted Learning English (ESL) Label Me! Printouts] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|English Page – Advanced Vocabulary Lessons] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|English Vocabulary] [|Exercises] [|English Vocabulary for Beginners] [|ESL Desk] [|ESL Games Plus] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|ESL Games World Vocabulary Games] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Free Puzzlemaker – Discovery Education] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Free Rice] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Funbrain – reading and word games for kids] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Games to Learn English] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Hello World – games and activities for kids] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Illustrate Video Dictionary – [|Apple app] and [|Android app] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Interesting Things for ESL Students Vocabulary][|Games and Quizzes] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|LanguageGuide] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Learnclick Cloze Quiz Creator] – with app <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Learning Chocolate] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Learning Vocabulary Fun <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Listen and Write Dictations] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Madrid Teacher] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Novel Games] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Password Game Template <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Quia Shared Vocabulary Games and Exercises] [|Vocabulary Games] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Quizicon: 100 Most Common English Words Quiz] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ReadWriteThink Word Matrix <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|REEP's English Practice] [|See Touch Learn] (ipad app) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Spelling Bee @ Learner.org] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|SpellingCity Word Lists] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Using English for Academic Purposes: Vocabulary for EAP] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Vocab Test] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|VocabAhead] – app <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|VocabKitchen] – vocabulary profiler and social reader tool <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Vocabulary.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Whirly Word]- Apple app
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Exercises, Games, Quizzes: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">+ see Ed Technology and Mobile Learning's [|16 Websites to Teach and Learn Vocabulary]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Dictionary.com] (see [|Word Dynamo] game, slideshows, and other word games) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Instagrok] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|OneLook Reverse Dictionary](when a word is on the tip of your tongue, type in the description to find the word) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary Online] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Merriam][|-][|Webster](see [|Top Ten Lists]of less-commonly known words based around an interesting theme, [|Words for Things You Didn’t Know Have Names,][|Videos][|,][|Name That Thing]timed visual quiz, [|Trend Watch,]20 [|online word games][|),] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary] (see [|Word of the Day] and [|Pronunciation Exercises]) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Mnemonic Dictionary] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Ozdic English Collocations Dictionary] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Wiktionary in Simple English] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Wordsmyth Online English Dictionary-Thesaurus] + several tools (glossary and quiz maker) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|YourDictionary] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">OneLook Reverse Dictionary <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Tip of My Tongue]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dictionaries: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Go English] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Idiomsite] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Self-Study Idioms]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Idioms **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|A.Word.A.Day] at [|WordSmith.org] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Merriam][|-][|Webster's Word of the Day] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Word Central Daily Buzzword] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|L10]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Email Subscriptions **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Urban Dictionary <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Internet Slang Dictionary
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Slang **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Human Anatomy Online <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kids Konnect Human Body <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MEDtropolis The Virtual Body tour (also in Spanish) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Visible Body: 3D Human Anatomy (there is a subscription fee)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anatomy **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">VoyCabulary - enter URL or text; site transforms content with links to references, including definitions Lingro- enter URL; site makes clickable links that provide dictionary definitions to words in content Rewordify - enter text or URL; site simplifies the content
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Web Tools **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources and Resources for Teachers: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Word Lists:** [|A New General Service List], [|Oxford English Corpus], [|Academic Word List], [|A New Academic Word List], [|The Corpus of Contemporary American English]


 * Collocations:** [|Just the Word], [|FLAX Library]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Academic Vocabulary] – site with several tools, exercise creators, more <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Compleat Lexical Tutor] - numerous tools <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Colorin Colorado - Selecting Vocabulary to Teach English Language Learners (3 tiers of words) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|English Language & Usage Stack Exchange] – Q&A site for linguists, etymologists, and English language enthusiasts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Learning Center Exchange - [|9 Types of Mnemonics for Better Memory] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Keys to Learning: Effective Vocabulary Instruction (PDF) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Lexile Framework for Reading] – matching reading level with texts and [|Lexile Analyzer] [|Pearson Reading Maturity Metric] [|Readability] [|Readability-Score.com] - Flesch-Kinkaid Reading Ease [|ReadWriteThink Student Interactives] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SuperSummary Ultimate Vocabulary Resource Guide for Teachers and Students <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|VocabularySize.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Vocabulogic Blog] [|Word Information]
 * Tools/Resources:**


 * For extra reading:**

ASCD Building Academic Vocabulary

Chen, Yu Hua. "The Use of Corpora in the Vocabulary Classroom." The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. X, No. 9, Sept. 2004, accessed online at []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|College & Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Edutopia: 11 Tips on Teaching Common Core Critical Vocabulary.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gairns, R. & Redman, S. (1986). Working with Words: A guide to teaching and learning vocabulary. Cambridge University Press.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grabe, W. & Stoller, F. (1997). Reading and vocabulary development in a second language: A case study. In J. Coady & T. Huckin (Eds.), Second language vocabulary acquisition (pp. 98-122). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gu, P.Y.“Vocabulary Learning in a Second Language: Person, Task, Context and Strategies.” TESL Electronic Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2, Sept. 2003. Accessed online at [].

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kinsella, K. (2005). [|Aiming High: Teaching Academic Vocabulary]. Sonoma County Office of Education.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS) [|-] [|Assessment Strategies and Reading Profiles]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Marzano’s Six-Step Process: [|Teaching Academic Vocabulary].

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Marzano, R.J. (2004). Building Background Knowledge for Academic

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Achievement. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Marzano, R. J. (2009). The Art and Science of Teaching / Six Steps to Better Vocabulary Instruction. Educational Leadership, 67(1), 83-84. doi:[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">McCarten, J. (2007). Teaching Vocabulary: Lessons from the Corpus, Lessons for the Classroom. Cambridge University Press. Online at []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">National Reading Technical Assistance Center (2010). A Research Synthesis: A Review of the Current Research on Vocabulary Instruction, accessed online at []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">New Ways in Teaching Vocabulary (2014). Averil Coxhead, ed. TESOL International Press.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Prentice Hall eTeach article “Strategies for Vocabulary Development” by Dr. Kate Kinsella, Dr. Colleen Shea Stump, and Dr. Kevin Feldman, online at []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Schmitt, N. (2000). Vocabulary in Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Second Story Window Blog posts, “[|Tools for Vocabulary Instruction: A Teacher Resource Pack],” and “[|Knowing a Word: Assessing Vocabulary]”

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Super Duper Handy Handouts! [|Three Tiers of Vocabulary and Education]