Remote Teaching and Learning Ideas for Lower Primary
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5 Interactive World Language Activities for Remote and Socially-Distanced Classrooms
Whether you teach English, Malay, Mandarin, or any other world language, you probably rely on interactive world language activities, including games, songs, and manipulatives to keep your students engaged.
Here are 5 interactive world language activities to keep your language students engaged during remote learning or in a physically distanced classroom.
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Learn Languages with Music Videos, Lyrics, and Karaoke!
LyricsTraining is the new way to learn English and other languages through music and the lyrics of your favourite songs. From pop songs to children's music, improve and practise your students' listening skills with the best music videos. Fill in the gaps to the lyrics as they listen and sing Karaoke to their favourites.
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7 Interactive Language Arts Activities for Digital Classrooms ELA Games to Play with Your Students Online
Whether you are back to school or teaching your students online, it's a perfect time to provide extension and fun with ELA games to play with your students online. No matter what your students' ages or skill levels, when you make something a game or competition, they are engaged!
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Host a Lesson on Quizziz
Lessons are a great way to teach! As a teacher hosting a lesson on Quizizz, you control everything about the way your students experience your content. You can choose from a variety of slide types and include polls and questions at any point in your lesson to make it informative and engaging for your students.
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Reading & Writing Online Games
These reading and writing games will get your students excited to build their literacy skills. Younger learners can start with the fundamentals of letter recognition, vowel sounds, simple spelling, and vocabulary, while more advanced students develop their grammar, punctuation, reading comprehension, and more in these games.
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Storytelling with ClassDojo
Unlock your class's creativity with these incredible storytelling videos and activities. Students will love learning about the key components of creative writing while exploring the Night Zoo! This set of videos was created by Night Zookeeper, an education website that inspires writing through competition and creativity.
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Scholastic Home Learning Kit
Every day includes four separate learning experiences, each built around a thrilling, meaningful story or video. Kids can do them on their own, with their families, or with their teachers.
Just find your grade level and let the learning begin!
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Read and Learn on Epic! Anytime. Anywhere.
Epic!’s digital library includes many of the best kids books, popular ebooks, and videos such as Fancy Nancy, Big Nate, Warriors, and National Geographic Kids.
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Open Library's Student Library
Welcome to Open Library's Student Library, a School Library designed for a k-12 audience.
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Engage With a Story: How to Make the Most of Storytelling in Your Presentation
Studies show that applying storytelling techniques to your presentation is one of the most powerful ingredients for audience engagement. Learn how to turn your presentation into a captivating story, and how Kahoot! can support you.
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Chineasy
Feel free to browse the channel for inspiration. There are cultural videos, product demos, as well as motivational talks and interviews with their founder ShaoLan.
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Integrating Movement with Core-subject Learning
GoNoodle has been creating fantastic movement videos since its launch. But, did you know that GoNoodle offers videos that are more than just plain fun? Soon you’ll wonder how you missed the instructional opportunities that transform learning into an energizing, active, memorable experience!
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How-To Writing
Looking for distance learning videos for students? Come learn about How-To writing with Mrs Jones.
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Projects for Remote Learning
Here's a growing cache of project resources that you can use while you're facilitating online learning with your students.
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Ideas and Resources for ELA
In an effort to provide English Language Arts (ELA) educators with support during statewide closure of K-12 public schools, the NCDPI ELA Team has organized ideas and resources for remote ELA instruction.Teachers may need to adapt these ideas and resources to align with specific grade-level standards.
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Free Mandarin Online Games
Enhance students' knowledge on Mandarin and critical thinking by playing these online games.
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Best Bahasa Melayu Apps for Kids to Pick Up Malay Language Quickly
Play is one way that you can use to encourage children in learning languages. There are many benefits to learning a language using apps used on smartphones such as iPhone, Android, etc.
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Focused Instruction: Teaching Effective Writing Minilessons
Check out the four different writing strategies now that can be taught with a short minilesson and then some practice.
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Lesson Ideas for Reading and Writing
Get inspiration on lesson ideas for Reading and Writing from BrainPOP Jr, you may create your own quiz by signing up a free account too!
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Chinese Buddy
Want to learn Chinese quicker & easily remember words? Learn Chinese through songs especially for second language learners!
Check them out every Friday at 8.30am EST for a new Mandarin learning song video!
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The Ultimate Guide to Chinese Learning Apps for Kids
Sunny categorized the Chinese learning apps for kids by the skills it teaches or area of focus.Under the Chinese learning apps she also indicated the age range, price, operating system and whether it’s in traditional or simplified Chinese.
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Distance Learning with Lalilo
Sign up and invite parents remotely for home access to phonics and reading lessons.
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Reflection on Teaching Mandarin Online
Teacher Bobbi shares her experiences on teaching Mandarin to younger kids online and parts of her virtual lessons.
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Storyline Online
Story Online is a free resource for remote learning during COVID-19. Activity guides aligned with common core standards are available with each video.
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The World's Most Popular Way to Learn Chinese Online
Learn Chinese in just 5 minutes a day with these game-like lessons. Whether you’re a beginner starting with the basics or looking to practice your reading, writing, and speaking, Duolingo is scientifically proven to work.
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Draw Aloud – A Literature-Based Art Activity
A great way to work those listening comprehension muscles is to draw pictures during a read aloud. Open-ended drawing works (i.e., draw whatever comes to mind while listening) but kids usually respond well to a directed focus such as a character, scene, or event from the book.
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Interactive Printing Press
The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, and flyers. Teachers and students can choose from several templates to publish class newspapers, informational brochures, and flyers announcing class events.
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