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Spelling in the spotlight: Online inspiration session
We zoom in on the remediation pillar of the integrated approach to reading problems.
The negative PIRLS results made full media coverage. The reading level of our Flemish ten-year-olds reached a dramatic low. Will you help tackle this?
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Media Scanners: Workshop
Information bubbles, propaganda, censorship... These are phenomena that are as old as our (visual) language. But how do you recognize them? How do we avoid polarization? The Media Scanners workshop introduces students to sources from the Second …
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Become a Styrofoam architect
The students get to work like real architects: after a short introduction to force distribution and strength theory, they learn the different techniques to design and construct an apartment building with our super fun Styrofoam cutters. But their …
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Introductory games for French, English, Spanish or German tutors
For language lessons, it is advisable to get acquainted informally for half an hour through a game before the substantive start. That immediately broke the ice. In this article you will find, in addition to the Dutch version of the …
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Dive into language!: Campaign of the Flemish Language Platform
Choosing languages means jumping into a sea of possibilities, so dive into language! The website contains a wealth of information, presentations about language training and documents for language teachers and students who want to study languages.
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Winter Spirits: Song around sound with chords and lesson ideas
Winter Spirits is about the terrifying sounds you sometimes hear in the dark.
It is ideal for lessons on sound. In the appendix you will find the text with chords as well as a number of lesson ideas.
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Themed tour Hatsjoe… health: About health, hygiene and pandemics in Roman times
There is no denying that Covid-19 is having an unprecedented impact on our society. The Romans too were repeatedly plagued by ruthless epidemics. Based on the attributes of the Roman physician Galenus and the Goddess Hygieia, we take young and old …
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Mouse Tooltip Translator: Example
This video shows how Mouse Tooltip Translator works, a free extension for Microsoft Edge. Point to a sentence with the mouse pointer and you will hear it pronounced in an excellent computer voice: French, English, German ... and Belgian-Dutch. The …
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Language extensions for Edge, Chrome and Firefox
On this site you will find free language extensions (apps for browsers) that make students more proficient in language. For example, the immersive reader who reads texts in Microsoft Edge with a natural-sounding voice in Dutch, French, English, …
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Workshop Illustration
During an Illustrating Workshop, we choose 1 or more passages from a book that we convert into a striking illustration.
We start with a brainstorm and choose the passage from the book. Which characters, landscapes, environments, feelings, …
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Storyweaver
StoryWeaver is an open source digital platform from the Indian publisher Pratham Books on which anyone can add, read, download, translate or adapt children's stories.
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Spelling software: BLOON
BLOON is method-independent remedial spelling software that uses existing or custom word lists. Ideal for practicing the spelling method you use in class.
BLOON is also suitable for foreign languages: While the youngest students get started with this …
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