TEXT ANALYZER ACCORDING TO CERF LEVELS

What does the Text Analyzer do?

The Text Analyzer can rate the difficulty level of a text according to the Common European Framework, or CEFR Levels.

ESL teachers may wish to use this tool to:

• determine the approximate level of proficiency that the text is suitable for
• generate a suggested vocabulary list
• compare the difficulty levels of two texts
• get meanings for the suggested vocabulary list (via ninjawords.com)

How to use the Text Analyzer

Simply copy and paste your text in the box above and click SUBMIT. You will get more accurate results for texts of over 50 or so words.

How does the Text Analyzer work?

Each word in the submitted text is compared to a list of the 10,000 most commonly used words in English. Based on each word's position on the list and the average word and sentence length, an algorithm is used to rate the difficulty of the text.

You can expect slightly different results compared to the Flesch-Kincaid Index. The Flesch-Kincaid index mainly looks at sentence length and word length, whereas this tool focuses on complexity of language.

What is word complexity?

This is the average position of the words in the list of 10,000 most frequent words in English. Hence, the lower the score, the easier the text and the higher the score, the more difficult.

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Easter Crafts: free downloadable Easter worksheets

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Easter Audio Book

Listen to an illustrated Easter Story!

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Systems with strong offline functionality for distance learning

Systems with strong offline functionality

• Kolibri – Learning application to support universal education, available in more than 20 languages.
• Rumie – Education tools and content to enable lifelong learning for underserved communities.
• Ustad Mobile – Access and share educational content offline.

Tools for teachers to create of digital learning content

• Thinglink – Tools to create interactive images, videos and other multimedia resources.
• Buncee – Supports the creation and sharing visual representations of learning content, including media-rich lessons, reports, newsletters and presentations.
• EdPuzzle – Video lesson creation software.
• Kaltura – Video management and creation tools with integration options for various learning management systems.
• Nearpod – Software to create lessons with informative and interactive assessment activities.
• Pear Deck – Facilitates the design of engaging instructional content with various integration features.
• Squigl – Content creation platform that transforms speech or text into animated videos.

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Digital Learning Management Systems

The following platforms can be used to support learning through digital channels.Teachers may choose the one-ones that correspond to their personal needs and teaching/learning situations.

• CenturyTech – Personal learning pathways with micro-lessons to address gaps in knowledge, challenge students and promote long-term memory retention.
• ClassDojo – Connects teachers with students and parents to build classroom communities.
• Edmodo – Tools and resources to manage classrooms and engage students remotely, offering a variety of languages.
• EkStep – Open learning platform with a collection of learning resources to support literacy and numeracy.
• Google Classroom – Helps classes connect remotely, communicate and stay-organized.
• Moodle – Community-driven and globally-supported open learning platform.
• Schoology – Tools to support instruction, learning, grading, collaboration and assessment.
• Seesaw – Enables the creation of collaborative and sharable digital learning portfolios and learning resources. 
• Skooler – Tools to turn Microsoft Office software into an education platform.https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse/solutions

For more:https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse/solutions

COVID 19 LEARNING SUPPORT

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TEACHING IN CORONAVIRUS IDEAS

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Resources to provide psychosocial support in emergencies

Resources to provide psychosocial support

• InterAgency Standing Committee guidelines to protect and improve people’s mental health and psychosocial well-being in the midst of an emergency: https://www.who.int/mental_health/emergencies/9781424334445/en    
• WHO mental health and psychosocial guidance during the COVID-19 outbreak: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/mental-health-considerations.pdf 
• UNICEF guidance on how teachers should talk to children about COVID-19
• UNICEF guidance on how parents and caregivers can talk children about COVID-19 

https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse/solutions

ALL ABOUT DISTANCE LEARNING TOOLS

https://www.albert.io/blog/tools-for-distance-learning/

Digital Literacy for the Teaching and Learning of Languages

for more:

https://www.ecml.at/ECML-Programme/Programme2016-2019/Digitalliteracy/tabid/1797/language/en-GB/Default.aspx