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primarily for ABE/GED/ESOL teachers, but useful for anyone wanting to integrate technology
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10 Sure-fire Ways to Get the Most Out of Reading Activities in Your ESL Classroom

10 Sure-fire Ways to Get the Most Out of Reading Activities in Your ESL Classroom | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
Students falling asleep on their textbooks? Get them excited about reading with these 10 focused in-class reading tactics.
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Digital Tools for Pairing Literary and Informational Texts and Close Reading Skills

Digital Tools for Pairing Literary and Informational Texts and Close Reading Skills | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
Final Post in Series Looking at Apps and Tools for the Common Core Literacy Curriculum Reading Strand Dr. Leslie Suter and Dr. Melissa Comer are faculty

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Technology

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Joomla! - the dynamic portal engine and content management system
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Rewordify.com: Understand what you read

Rewordify.com: Understand what you read | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
Rewordify.com helps you understand more of what you read, faster. It translates hard English into easier English.
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helpful for adult literacy, esl classes - simplify words

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reading comprehension apps for iPad and iPhone

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Ipad Apps for reading comprehension Compatible with iPhone and iPad, Best reading comprehension apps touch app listings, price and news apps ,TOEIC Reading (Reading Comprehension) ,GRE Reading Comprehension™ ,ESL Reading Comprehension ,Reading Comprehension...
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ipad apps reading, esl, 

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This would make it so much easier...

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Goodbye Reading Journals, Hello Social Networking

Goodbye Reading Journals, Hello Social Networking | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
GUEST COLUMN | by Maddie Witter Want to increase rigorous literacy skills without putting kids to sleep? Below are ideas to sprinkle into your instruction that will leave kids smiling and have last...
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increase literacy skills

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Eslgold.com

Eslgold.com | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
ESL, English as a second language, teaching materials and resources for speaking, study and learning. TESOL teachers, schools, and programs.
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Natural Reader

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NaturalReader is a text to speech program that converts any written text into spoken words. In other words, it allows you to listen to text instead of reading the screen!
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ESOL Reading Groups

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Blog post about my thoughts and experience of reading groups with ESOL learners.


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Reading Comprehension Worksheets

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High quality reading comprehension worksheets for all ages and ability levels. Teachers in the classroom and at home will find our materials to be very beneficial.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Use Technology to Inspire Students in Language Arts

Free Technology for Teachers: Use Technology to Inspire Students in Language Arts | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
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Recommend a program that allows your computer talk.

Recommend a program that allows your computer talk. | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
NaturalReader is a text to speech program that converts any written text into spoken words. In other words, it allows you to listen to text instead of reading the screen!
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Most Birds

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Technology tools you can use for writing, reading, and finding information.
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Educators – New Adult Reading Program

Educators – New Adult Reading Program | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
Are you trying to teach an adult how to read or are you helping someone learn to read English? Then, you need to check out our new Reading Program.
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best site out there

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Rewordify.com: Understand what you read

Rewordify.com: Understand what you read | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
Rewordify.com helps you understand more of what you read, faster. It translates hard English into easier English.
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looks like an extremely helpful tool

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Tired Of Learning? Turn Reading Into Fun With These 3 Useful Chrome Extensions

Tired Of Learning? Turn Reading Into Fun With These 3 Useful Chrome Extensions | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
Learning, whether you’re learning to code, learning to write, learning to cook, or just expanding your knowledge, can become pretty boring when you go over words you don’t understand.
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Tools witin Google Chrome to help students with difficult words.

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For Teachers | TV411

For Teachers | TV411 | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
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rich source of multimedia teaching materials that combine streaming videos with related interactive web lessons on reading, writing, math, science, and financial literacy.   You can use our materials to supplement your adult literacy curriculum, create new lessons, and enable students to practice their skills on their own. 

IMA-EDU.GR's curator insight, January 12, 2013 12:35 PM

πλούσια πηγή των πολυμέσων εκπαιδευτικού υλικού που συνδυάζουν streaming βίντεο με διαδραστικά μαθήματα που σχετίζονται με web στην ανάγνωση, τη γραφή, τα μαθηματικά, την επιστήμη, και των χρηματοοικονομικών γνώσεων. Μπορείτε να χρησιμοποιήσετε τα υλικά μας να συμπληρώσει αναλυτικό πρόγραμμα αλφαβητισμού ενηλίκων σας, να δημιουργήσετε νέα μαθήματα, και επιτρέπουν στους μαθητές να εξασκήσουν τις ικανότητές τους για τη δική τους. 

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ESL Reader - Online Reading Help

ESL Reader - English Reading Help for ESL students...
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Help to run your reading or writing group | Reading Groups for Everyone

Help to run your reading or writing group | Reading Groups for Everyone | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
These tips are based on the work we did with library services in the West Midlands and should be useful if your group is new or if you think your meetings could be improved.
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460+ FREE BOOK NOTES SUMMARY STUDY GUIDES Literature Notes Free Booknotes,Study Guide

PinkMonkey.com - 460+ FREE ONLINE BOOKNOTES STUDY GUIDES,Notes,Book Summary,Plot Summary,Synopsis,Essay Topics for Hundreds of Titles Online...
Denise Lombardo's comment, August 30, 2012 6:00 AM
Thanks for passing this on, Louise - looks brilliant! Great list of titles.
Louise Robinson-Lay's comment, August 30, 2012 6:47 AM
You are very welcome Denise. Regards.
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Strategies for online reading comprehension

Strategies for online reading comprehension | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it

This article examines the differences between reading in print and reading online, and proposes some tools and strategies to help aid students' reading comprehension and information literacy in online environments


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CoolToolsfor21stCenturyLearners - CoolTools simplifying text

CoolToolsfor21stCenturyLearners - CoolTools simplifying text | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
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