User:Slvrstreak17

EL Resources

Reading & Writing Foundation skills for Elementary EL Students

1. Alphabet

2. Concept of Print

3. Phonological Awareness

4. Phonics

5. High Frequency Words

6. Fluency

https://www.learninga-z.com/site/what-we-do/standards/common-core/foundational-skills

Reading & Writing Instructional Strategies for Elementary level EL Students

1. Teach comprehension first

2. Plan comprehension activities before during and after a reading

3. Brainstorm with the whole class to generate a Word Bank for Writing

4. Teach the strategy of using pictorial, semantic, and syntax cues, and conventions of print to read for meaning

5. Encourage children to predict, confirm, and self correct

6. Generate a list of questions about what you are reading

7. Discuss new words in context

8. Teach word-study skills

9. Integrate reading with writing and use a variety of genres and formats as a springboard for writing activities

10. Have students keep journals

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/teaching-ell-reading-and-writing-strategies/

Reading and writing technology tools and resources appropriate for elementary EL students at different proficiency levels

1. Story Time for Me

2. Starfall

3. Many Things

4. Voxy

5. Building Language for Literacy: Early Reading Activities

6. Learn English Kids

7. Constructing the paragraph

8. Online picture dictionary

9. Google Translate

https://www.mastersinesl.org/blog/instructional-technology-tools-in-the-esl-classroom/

Grouping techniques and cooperative learning strategies conducive to elementary grade levels

Before doing this it is important to assess the preferred learning styles of all students in the classroom.

1. Pick a word, any word

2. Tongue Depressors

3. Color Pencils

4. Group of the day

5. Genre groups

https://www.dailyteachingtools.com/cooperative-learning-grouping.html

EL RESOURCES Part 2

Listening and speaking skills for elementary level EL students

-Model language by saying aloud and writing the ideas you are teaching

-Be explicit. Give each activity a name and repeat it often

-Have students retell stories, equations or procedures aloud

-Practice dictation. Let students do the dictating as well

-Explain by showing not just telling

-When asking questions give choices for the answer

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/teaching-ell-speaking-strategies/

Grammar and vocabulary development strategies for elementary-level EL students

-Pre-teach vocabulary

-Focus on cognates

-Scaffolding

-Use computers and audio books

-Use a word wizard box

-Encourage oral language use

-Correct content not grammar

-Model correct usage

https://www.readingrockets.org/article/vocabulary-development-ells

Strategies for comprehensible input, feedback, building background, and student engagement

-Speak on a level students understand

-Provide visual aids for additional support

-Ask frequent questions

-Provide students the opportunity to speak about what they understood

-Repetition of activities

-Assessments

-Help students connect to the lesson with a video or related book

-Connect a previous lesson to the new concept or idea

-Cooperative learning

-Scavenger Hunts

-Science Sequence Games

https://prezi.com/ogzxppts7zz9/instructional-strategies/

'''Grammar and vocabulary technology tools and resources appropriate for elementary EL students at different proficiency levels

Many of these are similar to the tools for reading and writing

-Story Time For Me

-Starfall

-Many Things

-Voxy

-Building Language For Literacy: Early Reading Activities

-ESL Interactive Grammar Games

-Online Picture Dictionary

-Google Translate

-Learn English Kids

-Constructing the Paragraph

https://www.mastersinesl.org/blog/instructional-technology-tools-in-the-esl-classroom/