Dear Michelle, Thank you so much. Your non readers can prepare a presentation of "Harry Potter and the mysterious ticking noise." It's on you tube. Barry S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michelle Mor" <mor.michelle3@xxxxxxxxx> To: <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 10:05 PM Subject: [etni] Using Harry Potter to teach excellent students in the 5th and 6th grade - Partani hours. > To whom ever may be interested, > This year My principal asked me to build an excellence program for our > strong to native level speaker students. > > > After spending hours searching the internet for Harry Potter materials(a > subject my students requested) that were simplified enough to use with my > "advanced" elementary school students, I finally conceded that this it was > mission impossible and decided to build my own H*arry Potter* site for the > students where the language was as simple as possible and everything was > task orientated. > > > After a few days of work I think I have managed to create a site suited to > the needs of my students, complete with attached work pages and tasks. > > > So far the project is a hit with my students and so I thought that it > might > be nice to share it with any teacher interested in using Harry Potter to > teach their advanced students. In some of my lessons (when the material is > to easy for the advanced students), I send them to the computers at the > back of the classroom and they work independently. No more boredom - no > more disturbance. (*Now I just have to figure out what to do with my > non-readers during regular lessons and I will be set.*) > > > Please feel free to make use of this site. It is not a commercial site and > is intended as an educational tool only. > Should there be any questions or comments feel free to mail me. > > > https://sites.google.com/site/eflenglishenrichment/ > > *Michelle Mor <https://sites.google.com/site/eflenglishenrichment/>* > mor.michelle3@xxxxxxxxx > > >