Most students are familiar with multiple choice type tests, particularly international students who have taken entrance exams or IELTS or T...
How to improve the flow of your spoken English
One of the challenges of improving your English is getting it to sound more natural. Nobody wants to sound like a robot or a computer. W...
Story Elements - Do You Know the Who, Where, and What of the Story?
From day one, we should be talking about the elements of a story when we’re reading. Pointing out the characters, setting, and events is na...
What’s in Your Basket? Are You Ready for the TPT Sale?
The SLPs at TPT , sponsored by Speech Room News , are linking up to share what’s in our personal carts for the sale, and what resources we h...
The Order of Things: Can Your Students Sequence?
Being able to sequence events and actions is an extremely important skill. Sequencing is needed to complete the steps of a task, to ...
Have You Seen These Posts? Some great posts to check out.
Before I continue with my shared reading strategies month, I wanted to post links to two great blog posts that relate to shared reading...
Evaluating resources workshop PowerPoint
Hi Ladies and Gentlemen, Thanks to those people who were able to attend the Evaluating Resources workshop February 17 at the Writing Centre....
Critical Thinking Club at VIU
Starting tomorrow (February 19th). Here is a tremendous opportunity to sharpen your mind and engage with other students on campus. Thursd...
Reading Week: Bruce away
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, During reading week, February 23-27, I will be out of the office. If you desperately need help, Les will help yo...
English Language Support this week
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OS X 10.10 Yosemite: New Arabic Fonts
I recently found 14 new Arabic fonts in Yosemite under Library/Application Support/Apple/Fonts/iWork Arabic Support. These must be installe...
Shared Reading for Comparing and Contrasting: Can You Tell What’s Same and Different?
The book that I use most often for example purposes is one about a trip to the zoo. (It’s actually called A Trip to the Zoo ). On the firs...
VIU Global Roundtable Discussion Group Friday 13th 1:30-3:00 in Building 255 Room 115
Hello VIU Students, There will be a Global Roundtable Discussion Group Meeting on Small Talk : if you are interested to learn how to master ...
Evaluating Resources: Workshop Tuesday February 17th 1:00-2:00 in the Writing Centre in the Library
Hi Ladies and Gentlemen, There will be a workshop on Evaluating Resources for Assignments: How and Why on Tuesday February 17th from 1:00 ...
Shared Reading - Are You Reading to Your Students?
There is a good body of research and literature that indicates the importance of shared reading with students/children. One of the best res...
Yosemite Update Fixes Romaji Input Bug
Although Apple fails to say so in the notes for the update 10.10.2 released Jan. 27, this includes a fix for the bug in the Kotoeri Romaji k...
Changes for Week 5
There are some changes this week to English Language Support. Monday's Library Drop-In will start at 12:30 (not 12:00). New BBA/PDDB Dro...
Speech Pathologists' Blog Hop for Free Valentine's Resources -For the Love of Speech
Some of the Speech-Language Pathologists on the Teachers Pay Teachers site have joined together to offer a variety of FREE speech and langua...
Learning Matters -- a terrific VIU 'in-house' resource
Learning Matters (learningmatters.viu.ca) is VIU's digital learning commons. It covers the following 6 topics -- When you ...
Yosemite Update Fixes Keyboard Layout Switching Bug
Apple released Yosemite 10.10.2 on Jan. 27, which includes the following fix: + Addresses an issue that may cause the input method to switch...
Movie Monday Link-Up - Get a Video-Eye View of SoundSwaps App for Struggling Spellers
I'm linking up with Techie Turtle's Movie Monday today, collecting educational or fun movie clips. I'm sharing my Y...
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