November | 2016 | Spicy Tooth

Spicy Tooth

ESOL – Literacy – Numeracy

Teaching Reading Skills

Here is an infographic I created to accompany a session I gave on teaching reading skills to a group of trainee teachers. Additional resources English is a piece of cake has a detailed explanation of the stages of a reading lesson. Here is a link to online versions of newspapers that are presented in traditional…

Word clouds – Wordle, WordArt or Tagxedo?

Word clouds are a method of displaying words on a screen. It is particularly useful for showing the frequency of words in a text, with words that occur more frequently in the text appearing in a larger font than words that occur less frequently. An example of their use could be to get learners to…

Teacher’s Corner

Teacher’s Corner is a fantastic website, full of resources for teachers. Grouped under the ‘printable worksheets’ tab are a range of ready made worksheets, including crosswords, word searches, word scrambles, telling the time worksheets, money worksheets and maths worksheets. There is also a word cloud generator. What sets this website apart from others is the…