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Alexis Chester ESL- 440N Professor Norris March 13, 2024 Part 1: Supporting ELL Students 1. What are some strategies you use to teach foundational reading skills (concepts of print, phonological awareness, phonics and fluency) to ELLs? Ms. Armour talked about a lot of strategies. One of the strategies that she uses is the concept of prints. She is big on utilizing pictures as well as symbols to introduce words to the ELL student as well as others in her room that need it. She likes to introduce the letter sound for the ELL student to help her be able to identify and know the sound of a letter to be able to use it as well as read it correctly. 2. What strategies do you use for vocabulary development and student practice? Ms. Armour said that after using the letters, she then instructs the student to form words with the letters. She incorporates the picture with the meaning and then she also forms a sentence. I observed her defining and breaking down a word to the class during a lesson today. When she explained the term, she also used gestures to show what it meant. This helped the ELL student be able to hear the word, listen to it being sounded out, and being able to write it. 3. What are some strategies you use to teach the elements of language (phonetics, phonology, morphology, lexicon, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics) to ELLs?

Ms. Armour talked about strategies she uses and depending on the student she differentiates as needed. She went into dept with one strategy. Ms. Armour stated that she would first review the letter and the sound of the letter. Next, she will start to conjoin two letters together, one letter being a constant and the other letter being a vowel to make a sound. Once, the ELL student shows understanding she adds more letters to form longer words. When this is done the ELL student can start writing complete sentences. 4. How do you use Response to Intervention (RTI) or Multitiered Systems of Support (MTSS) in ELL instruction? The teacher said that she uses Bloom’s taxonomy to revisit everything that has been taught after a reading/language lesson is complete. Ms. Armour says she reviews to help the student and others remember the instruction that was taught. She asks questions to help check for understanding of the material that has been taught. Ms. Armour allows the student to apply herself by writing examples and creating two to three sentence paragraphs. 5. At least two additional questions to discuss with the teacher.  What is the most challenging when teaching an ELL student? Ms. Armour said that the most challenging thing is the language barrier. Her morphology is very different from English which makes it difficult for the ELL student.  Has the student parent shared any ideas for helping teach the ELL student? The teacher said she has not had any participation from the students’ parents. But she still communicates as needed with her parents concerning her academics and progress.

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