Articles for Teaching ESL
English Language LearnersClick below if you're interested in learning more about helping improve the reading of emergent bilinguals, and identifying the right resources for students. This article gives educators different tools and resources needed to help improve reading skills of emergent bilingual students. It starts by explaining emergent bilingual students need to be assessed first, which helps to get them resources in a general education classroom like an ELA classroom. This article expresses how assessments works for emergent bilinguals and it helps to give educators resources to help accommodate different learners.
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Teaching Practices
Click the link above to gain a list of book suggestions for working with emergent bilinguals specifically in the field of English. This article offers three different books that help to create activities that are useful and meaningful to emergent bilingual students. It offers teachers a variety of teaching methods that will help to improve students overall learning.
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Quick GuideClick below to see a shorter and easier to comprehension sheet. It gives different tips and strategies for working with emergent bilinguals. Number 2 on this list suggests that educators should teach in chunks to avoid overwhelming an ELL student. This was the one that stood out to me the most because I think it is really important for educators to remember that not only are ELL students digesting content, but they are also supposed to translate this context to understand. It is a lot of work for them, so I think it is important for educators to remember to chunk and slow down the amount of content they give.
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Developing Lesson PlansClick above for helpful in information about writing and reading comprehension for ELL students. Some of this information is generic, but this website is helpful in creating lesson plans that are easily understood by ELL students. It talks about specifically creating writing lessons that work over multiple days. All students should be given time to brainstorm, and work through a drafting process, but especially ELL students should be given this time to work through this process, which will help them produce better papers and assignments.
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Formative Assessment
For more information on using formative assessments in the classroom, specifically with ELL students click below. Assessments can be one of the most challenging aspects of ELL learning because assessment language and other parts can confuse ELL students. This can cause students to be less successful in the classroom. It is important to help students be successful in the classroom and making sure that assessments are accessible for all students is an important aspect of this.