Websites from workshop

Here are a few websites related to spelling that I'm mentioning in workshops I'm doing at the moment. So for anyone who didn't have time to write them down:

Writing for an audience - students make Glogs (digital posters - see www.glogster.com) about their home cities and share them with others around the world: Greetings from the World

http://greetingsfromtheworld.wikispaces.com/Look

 

This site is great for Look Say Cover Write and Check:

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/lookcover/lookcover.html

 

Spelling City - about the best website for learning spelling that I've ever come across:

http://www.spellingcity.com/

Also if you're interested in the following Cambridge English books:

English Unlimited http://www.cambridge.org/gb/elt/catalogue/subject/project/item5629547/

Interactive  www.cambridge.org/gb/elt/catalogue/subject/project/item5759502/

Teaching English Spelling (this is not my book, that's below) by Shemesh and Waller

www.cambridge.org/gb/elt/catalogue/subject/project/item404664/ 

All of these are available at your local ELT bookshop. If you're in Romania:

CENTRUL DE CARTE STRAINA SITKA
23,DACIA BOULEVARD
010403 BUCHAREST
ROMANIA
TEL/FAX 0040 21 2104010
         0040 21 2103030
         0040 722375477
office@cartestraina.ro
www.cartestraina.ro

And then of course there's my own book Teaching Spelling to English Language Learners which you can order

• from a book shop
• from www.lulu.com (20% discount until the end of October 2011) http://bit.ly/TSTELL
• directly from me (payment by PayPal) - johanna.stirling@gmail.com
• from Amazon http://bit.ly/mztrMs (co.uk) or http://bit.ly/k6qR5w (.com)

Finally, if you want to come to the beautiful city of Norwich for a teacher development course (eligible for Comenius funding), I hope to see you at NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) sometime: www.nile-elt.com 

And don't forget to explore this blog.

Johanna 

Wordsearch your personality - a bit of wordy fun

I'd love to attribute this to someone but I can't find out who - it just seems to be flying round Facebook at the moment.

Actually, it should say 'the first four adjectives you see describe you', because the first word I saw was 'ram'! That's not me at all! Once I realised what I was meant to be doing though I came out as outgoing, dramatic, reserved and talented. Not quite sure how I can be outgoing and reserved at the same time!

Anyway what about you? Which four words did you see first? Teachers, try it with your students - a bit of vocabulary personalisation? And great for seeing words within words, which can really help with spelling long words.

By the way, a big hello to the people I met at the Language Show in London on Sunday and all the teachers I'm looking forward to meeting in Romania this week (25-30 Oct 2011).

Now, come on, what were your words? And do they describe you?

Johanna