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RLA’s A-Z Ocean Animals Workbook 

Now Available in the RLA Market. Answer Keys included.

Happy Learning! ^^

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“Mom, Dad, and Me Under the Sea” Now Available in RLA’s Market! 

RLA Juniors, ready for bed? Or should we read a story instead?

This quick little tale is a trip through the sea. Ask Mom or Dad, “Can you read this to me?” ^^

Product Description: 

RLA is proud to present its first booklet adventure! In this short story, a child and their parents take a trip under the sea. There, they encounter different ocean animals. Our brave, little Explorer is not afraid! But the ocean is dark and full of crazy creatures. Can we still enjoy our adventure, even if we do feel scared along the way?

Read “Mom, Dad, and Me Under the Sea” to your own little Explorer before bed. Then if they’re still up for an adventure when they wake, try out our 4 bonus activity sheets! They include:

A Call and Response Comprehension Quiz. Parents ask and kids can point at or say the answer.

An Animal Coloring and Drawing Page. Let’s draw our family’s favorite ocean animals!

Counting and Matching Page. Practice numbers and colors with your Little Explorer.

A Coral Reef Coloring Page. Full page coloring fun for the little one!

This PDF reads nicely on mobile, but you can also print it out to practice story sequencing with your Little Learner or just have the full color pages.

Happy Learning!

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D is for Dugong

Visit us at our website or on Instagram to learn more A-Z Ocean Animals during our August on the Ocean series. 

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C is for Coral Polyp

Visit Rivers Learning Academy to learn more about them! 

Happy Learning! ^^

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B is for Barnacle

RLA’s August on the Ocean A-Z Ocean Animals (Non-Fiction Reading)

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Lovely. These days, all we dream about is the sea. Thank you for sharing!

Finally ready to put the paintbrush down on this one - can’t wait to see it on my wall!

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A is for Anglerfish by Rivers Learning Academy

Learn more A-Z Ocean Animals with us during our August on the Ocean series!

Happy Learning! 

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All Aboard! 

We’re pleased to announce our August on the Ocean session is now underway. Join us on Instagram for our A-Z Ocean Animal Fact Sheets, or register on our website as an RLA Academic to dive deeper with additional weekly lessons and to get early access to pages from our August on the Ocean workbooks for Intermediate and Advanced English Learners (and lovers ^^). Learning English may not be easy, but it can definitely be fun! 

Happy Learning! ^^

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We hope you have no qualms about learning English. It will definitely come in use!

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Hello, Learners!

RLA’s Reader’s Program is now open, so it’s also time to open our Learner’s Lounge up to you all. Over on Instagram, we’re sharing mini-extensions for the Novel Study we’re conducting on Alex T. Smith’s charming book Claude on Holiday. If you plan on following this novel study closely, you could follow us on Insta for more immediate updates and a first look at our posts, but Tumblr’s the place to be for more in depth resources and information. Here, we’ll dig in a little deeper, link to additional practice, and share a few more ideas for you lovely people. 

So let’s jump into it! 

Claude on Holiday Novel Study | Day 1: Clothes

Summer is all about having fun in the sun, so it’s the perfect season for trying new things and going on new adventures. But what should we wear? Let’s get some ideas! 

First, Review what you already know. 

What would you wear in your country for...

a seaside adventure / a day at the beach

an adventure at sea / a sailing or cruise ship adventure

a pirate adventure 

an island adventure

a camping / a hiking adventure 

Think about it with a class brainstorm and then make it a game! One way to review clothing vocab is through a dress-up drawing challenge. We’ve already provided some summer specific “adventures” for you to start off with. Pick one at random and grab a piece of paper. Then, try to draw and label the perfect outfit for it showing at least five items of clothing (for easy scoring-- 5x20 = 100!). 

Make it a race against time by adding a 1 minute time limit (solo challenge), or make it a team challenge by allowing teams to work together to draw and label a picture with as many items as possible before 2 or 3 minutes runs out. The team with the most items labeled wins! 

Visit Links to Summer Fashion Sites (to Expand your Vocab)

Here are some resources to find out more about the names of certain summer clothes: 

Jetsetter’s 5 Outfits (for Men and Women)

Beachbrella’s Ideas (for Men and Women)

What to Wear in Goa (for Men and Women)

Please note that all of the sites above have ads and depending on how old (or how conservative) you or your audience may be, be cautious and remember it’s the vocab that counts! ^^

For Parents | Games to Try at Home

For parents who are hoping to study this novel with their kids, try a closet rush or a fashion show game to practice clothing related vocabulary. 

The closet rush game is quick and simple. Lay out (or pile up) a few items of clothing for your young one to use. Then get the stopwatch on your phone ready. Tell your child you will call out 3-5 items of clothing and they need to find and put those clothes on as fast as they can. When they’re ready, start the stopwatch and call out the items one by one until the list is finished. Stop the clock when they’ve finished getting dressed and let them know their time! They might want to go again to see if they can find the items even faster!  The (closet) fashion show will help your little one learn planning skills. Together, set a theme for the fashion show (one of the summer adventures listed above can be a start!). Now the planning begins! Who will be in the fashion show? What should each person wear? What do we have at home that can make this outfit a reality? What should we say to introduce each outfit? After planning all of the details, you can help them realize their plan! Have a family fashion show using all of the details you’ve discussed, take pictures or record a video, and use that memory to review clothes again later if needed! 

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So, did you learn a lot from this mini-lesson? We hope so! We got our ideas from the emphasis on clothing items featured throughout Alex T. Smith’s Claude on Holiday! Our goal is to show ESL Learners and Teachers that English can be interesting if you read authentic material and allow yourself to be inspired by it! SLOWLY, we are taking the resources from our classes and putting them up on our Teachers Pay Teachers Store so that they’re easier for y’all to access. Note that our classes, of course, include some additional, interactive materials that can make Learning even more fun, but for those of you who can teach yourselves, don’t limit yourselves! There’s so much to know and so much room to grow. Be inspired and keep in touch! If you plan to continue following this Novel Study, we highly encourage you to BUY THE BOOK and grab some of our resources from TpT! We’ve handpicked some vocabulary from this book and have collected 100 useful British English/ summery words for you to learn in this Claude Novel Study Flashcard Set. 

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Quick Tips for Learning Languages on Your Own

Here are some mindsets and techniques that helped me study Italian on my own after classes ended. Hope this helps :)

Also, I’m trying out a new format for shorter posts–let me know what you think!

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Our Free Essay Writing Workshop Posters are now up on Teachers Pay Teachers!

Hello, Teachers!

If you’ve got ESL/ELL Learners working on their opinion writing skills, these helpful posters accompany our free Essay Writing Workshop Course and video lectures that you can use at your leisure. Download the review posters on TpT to use in your own studies or classroom... or sign up for our free course and let us give you some feedback on your essay writing! We can’t wait to Learn with you all. 

Happy Learning! Rivers Learning Academy

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Learning is an adventure. Enjoy the journey! 

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Hello, Learners!

Welcome to Rivers Learning Academy! Our Summer Courses are now open for Intermediate - Advanced English speakers and students all around the world. Want to read a book in English confidently, learn essay writing, or cook up some easy dishes for a taste of sweet summer? Come Learn with us! We aren't just going to teach you a few new vocabulary words-- we're going to show you how much fun it can be to Learn when inspired. 

Join us on your incredible Independent Learning journey, or collaborate with us to make your dream English Immersion Program come to life! We can customize our classes to better fit your needs/goals as an Instructor or give you more ideas for how to use our Interactive Program both on and offline. In our Beta phase, academies, book clubs, and larger groups can enjoy the perks of our team's creative collaboration for extremely discounted prices. Get in touch with us at contact@riverslearningacademy.com to talk, or visit us at our website to just get started!

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