Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. More than a quarter of a million nature images in this library free to download and reuse.

Visit:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/albums 

Web of stories

Web of Stories offers you the chance to listen to some of the greatest people of our time who have influenced our world telling their life stories. 

YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/webofstories 

Web of stories

https://www.webofstories.com/ 

#WorldReadAloudDay

World Read Aloud Day is celebrated on the first Wednesday of February. This campaign was founded in 2010 to advocate for access to literacy. It celebrates the power of reading aloud, a powerful activity with a powerful impact on children development. 

Check out the following links to discover activities and fun resources for all ages:

https://www.litworld.org/worldreadalouddayactivities/ 

https://www.litworld.org/worldreadaloudday

https://www.litworld.org/worldreadalouddayblog 

Exploratorium.edu

Exploratorioum.edu offers a vast collection of resources for teaching and learning and experiences that transform learning, Located in San Francisco, California, it is a public learning laboratory exploring the world through science, art, and human perception.

Visit Exploratorium.edu on:

https://www.exploratorium.edu/

I Have a Dream #MartinLutherKing

Our entry today commemorates the birth of Martin Luther King, a prominent leader of the civil rights movement, on this day in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Freedom’s Ring is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, animated. Here you can compare the written and spoken speech, explore multimedia images, listen to movement activists, and uncover historical context. 

An amazing educational resource that you will fall in love with.

http://freedomsring.stanford.edu/?view=Speech

Ginger. A grammar checker

Ginger is a grammar checker that edits and displays errors as the text is written. It also provides guidance on other issues such as punctuation and sentence structure, has a dictionary to expand the vocabulary and a text reader that is very helpful to improve listening skills. 

It can be used free of charge by adding it to Google Chrome or by subscribing to one of its plans for further customization.

Get Ginger on:

https://www.gingersoftware.com/

Storybird

Storybird is a cool educational online platform for children from age 3 to 14+, parents and teachers. It offers short, art-inspired stories that are curiously fun to make, share, and read. Students can express themselves and develop creatively their writing skills

Lit2Go #literature #audiobooks

Lit2Go is a free online collection of public domain fiction, poetry, and nonfiction audiobooks in MP3 format . An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages.

Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom. 

Stories can be searched by author, book, genre, collection, and readability.

Lit2Go is an ongoing project of the Florida Center for Instructional Technology 

Find Lit2Go on:

https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ 

Breaking News English by @SeanBanville

EFL / ESL English lesson plans & podcast to learn English based on current events and news. There are 7 levels, from elementary to advanced.

Every two days a new lesson is added. Each lesson has up to 26 pages of printable activities.  All lessons are downloadable PDF format. There are graded listenings with each lesson. Multiple audio files (that can be downloaded in mp3 format) are provided for each story. 

Find this amazing resource on:

https://breakingnewsenglish.com/ 

Learn-English.Org

Learn-English.Org is a free website for learners of English to develop competence in these four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

You can navigate the activities by category, by skill, and by level (CEFR A1-CEFR C2).

Learn-English.Org has articles relating to a variety of different topics. 

https://www.learn-english.org/