Language Resources for
Teachers and Educators
Schools, educators and teachers are always seeking resources to help them improve their knowledge and techniques for teaching languages to students. Patti Lozano, through Dolo Languages, is providing a growing list of language resources to meet the need of taking language education theory and making it language education reality in the classroom.
"You Played a Song Now What?" by Sue Fenton is called a survival guide for using songs in the classroom. This book offers hundreds of ideas adaptable to any subject...not just languages. There are dozens of strategies for singing a song differently each time.
In ths book you can find activities to practice language and concepts in a song Including ideas for paired speaking, imitative writing, projects, listening, mime, simulations, music videos, performances, staged photos, songwriting, dramatizations, creative writing, movement, dance, skits, parodies, impersonations, and much more!
"Get Them Talking!" is an invaluable tool for anybody involved in teaching and learning languages. The collection of theater games, storytelling techniques and singing and chanting ideas represents years of classroom experience as well as hundreds of workshops led by the author, Patti Lozano. All activities are stimulating, engaging, thoroughly enjoyable for both adult and child, but most importantly, geared toward supporting the rapid development of language in learners of all ages.
Contents Include:
16 Chanting Activities
12 Singing Strategies
8 Instrumental Music w/Language Ideas
12 Storytelling Techniques (with an established story)
12 Storytelling Techniques (students create original stories)
21 Theater Games and Improvisational Endeavors
Alphabet Soup, by Annette Frey
This comprehensive game book divides games up by lessons, suggesting different games for each one. For example, "Lesson 6: Food" features the games, "Soup," "Market," "Big Squeeze," "Food Fight" and more. The book contains over 100 well-known games and countless original activities placed within twenty-seven content-based lessons.
Perfect Pics, by Lonnie Dai Zovi
Perfect Pics is designed for language teachers who constantly need pictures for their classroom. The pictures within this book may be enlarged, shrunk or altered to be used as flash cards, made into quizzes, puzzles, games, grammar teaching aides, songs and listening comprehension visuals and more.
And...Patti Lozano has one exceptional resource for educators...her unique and inspiring series of workshops dealing with the many ways to improve techniques when teaching languages.
Her energetic, innovative workshops may include:
- Chanting strategies for lyrics, poetry and prose
- Methods for using songs as language drills and exercises
- Improvisation and role-playing
- Choreography to enhance language retention
- Storytelling techniques
- Creative writing innovations
- Enhancing grammatical concepts through singing, reading and acting
- Blending drawing with language and comprehension
- Listening comprehension boosters
- Exploration of legends and cultures
- Staying focused and involved during reading lessons
- Innovative ideas to analyze, retell, review, predict and extend stories and reading selections
- Blending the fine arts with core subjects such as math, science and social studies
Contact us today about booking a workshop:
- Choose 1/2 day or full-day workshops
- Request examples in Spanish, English, French, and/or German
- Targted for elementary, middle and/or high school students
- Foreign language, language arts and/or music specialists
We can design and customize a workshop that will bring the maximum benefit to your classes and your teachers!
Contact us today about booking a workshop.
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