Though I’m not a fan of Brainpop’s ELL program, I really like its videos (including Brainpop, Jr., and their Spanish-language ones) for Intermediate and above ELLs.
They have several new features, and you can read about it here and/or watch the embedded video below to learn about them.
I think the most potentially useful addition is a leveled reading component. In at least the most popular Brainpop videos, they now offer supplemental reading in three different lexile levels.
I think that can be very helpful to teachers and students. My only grip, though, is with the layout of the readings. At least in the one or two I viewed, they were displayed in fairly lengthy blocks of text. Because of that, if I was going to use them, I might copy and paste them in a Google Doc and then engineer the text.
Also, unfortunately, they only have these leveled texts with Brainpop videos – not Brainpop, Jr. ones.
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Though I’m not a fan of Brainpop’s ELL program, I really like its videos (including Brainpop, Jr., and their Spanish-language ones) for Intermediate and above ELLs. They have several new features, and you can read about it here and/or watch the embedded video below to learn about them. I think the most potentially useful ESL Web Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
