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For Teachers--English Language Learners |
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Overview & Background Information |
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http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/resabout/ells/intro/
"A Resource Guide from the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA)."
Published in June 2006, this report includes a well-written and researched introduction, with useful ideas about how to support English language learners at the secondary level.
It highlights the special problems of secondary school English Language Learners: "English language learners at the secondary level are more likely than those at the elementary level to be recent immigrants (newcomers) and/or students with significant gaps in their formal education. " |
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http://www.doe.mass.edu/ell/
From the Massachusetts Department of Education. Includes a section on Guidance and Laws. Includes web sites and article links for further information. |
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http://www.colorincolorado.org/
In English and in Spanish, this is a " bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners.
There are many useful links For Educators including useful background information on ELLS and tips on How to Develop a Lesson Plan that Includes ELLS and Reading Comprehension Strategies for Content Learning.
The site was originally designed for younger language learners, but " older ELLs (and their teachers) face many of the same challenges as ELLs in the early grades."
Includes a list of English/Spanish cognates [cognates are words that share a similar meaning.] |
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http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/0003strategies.html
From the Center for Applied Linguistics, offers "Ten Principles of Effective Instruction for Immigrant Students." |
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http://www.colorincolorado.org/pdfs/articles/cognates.pdf
[cognates are words that share a similar root meaning.] from Colorin Colorado web site. |
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http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/practice/itc/secondary.html#vocab
The focus is on developing vocabulary and language skills, with examples provided for most of the suggested tools:
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Concept maps for words --" Students can fill in the boxes with words or pictures that help define the new word " Questions to be answered for adjectives such as "bountiful" or verbs such as "swoop" or What concept does it describe?" "What is it like?" "What are some examples?"
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Cloze (leaving words out of a text to aid in language building & comprehension) Suggestions for using songs or basic text to aid in writing and reading comprehension
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Story Theater Used to develop oral language skills: "students act out a story while it is narrated or retell a story by acting it out."
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Character maps includes a list of words to describe character traits
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Jigsaw activities:The teacher divides text into chunks, adds a photo or graphic to aid in comprehension, and then assigns each student into two group. In the 1st group they will read & answer the questions, then write down their answers ; they will then report to their "home group" where they will explain their chunk of the text to other students.
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Pre-reading activities(for example, looking fort bold-face key terms,illustrations, headings and subheadings, and chapter summaries in a text) There is a sample Chapter/Section Pre-Reading Guide
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Visualize, Summarize, Question, Predict The teacher divides the text into "chunks" and ask students to visualize, summarize in pictures, then in one or two words and then come up with a question about the text and predict what happens next.
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Story Maps (graphic organizer useful for pre-reading or responding to a story) Story map elements usually include setting, characters, initiating event, conflict or goal around which the story is centered, and theme) Chain of events maps are also helpful.
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Dialogue journals are regular, one on one written communications between teacher and student that aid the ELL student in developing language skills and subject comprehension. It is suggested that one fifth of students submit their journals on a specific day each week; background and brief examples are provided.
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Graphic organizer--Spider Map: " used to describe a central idea: a thing, a process, a concept, a proposition. The map may be used to organize ideas or brainstorm ideas for a writing project."Key questions to ask: " What is the central idea? What are its attributes? What are its functions?"
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Graphic organizer--Venn Diagram " It is often used in mathematics to show relationships between sets. In language arts instruction, Venn Diagrams are useful for examining similarities and differences in characters, stories, poems, etc."
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Graphic organizer--Clustering " Students brainstorm " words, feelings, and reactions around an initial word or concept. The cluster may be used to generate words for use in writing or to find patterns and organization."
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More to come!
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http://www.pdictionary.com/
A free picture dictionary for English language learners, browsable by letter or by subject category (such as animals, colors, school, sports). There are activities to help ELLs learn the words: online flash cards, fill-in-the blanks, mispelled words to correct, and straight recall. Languages other than English on the site are Spanish, French, Italian and German.
*Some of the vocabulary is dated, and the categories could easily be expanded, but most of the words are basic words that any English speaker should know, so this dictionary may be helpful to some students. |
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Last updated Jan. 8, 2008
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L. Davies/ DHS Library |
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