Appropriateness of resource. Starfall.com is an appropriate resource for students who are pre-k to second grade with beginner to intermediate level ESL skills. The interactive activities, stories, songs, are designed to be easily and freely explored by young learners who are motivated by fun, colorful, animated charters and many prompt to “click on.” Visual and auditory learners will be well suited to this site as the activities consist of brightly colored visuals paired with auditory directions and sound effects.
Cultural responsiveness of resource. Starfall.com is culturally responsive in several activities including the “I’m reading” section where there are a variety of Chinese fables including an introduction section explaining
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For those at the beginner ESL level, audio directions can be used to prompt them along while those at an intermediate level may rely more on their knowledge of English phonetics.
Resource 6: Literacy Center.net
Appropriateness of resource. Literacy Center.net is an early childhood language learning website offering free access to interactive online activities and games in four languages, English, French, Spanish, and German. The activities for early learners are in the “Play and Learn” section, appropriate for preschool through first grade learners, and are designed to meet several of the Common Core State Standards for Kindergarten (Literacy Center Education Network, Inc., 1999-2017). Visual and auditory learners will be well suited to this site as the activities consist of brightly colored visuals paired with auditory directions and sound effects. Additionally, Literacy Center.net can be accessed by L1 and L2 learners of all ranges of proficiency.
Cultural responsiveness of resource. Literacy Center.net is culturally responsive as it allows learners to access activities in four languages: English, Spanish, French, and German. As the activities in this resource target basic pre academic skills including colors, numbers, letters, and shapes, students can easily connect prior knowledge of these concepts from their L1 to these L2 lessons. Use of appropriate
Within my school literacy lesson will be planed by the teachers, the teacher will go over the
Children are encouraged to communicate their needs, feelings and thoughts. They are given opportunities to choose and use reading materials.
Effective teachers who used the SIOP Model in their lesson plan become an expert in linking language and content in their instruction and expand their quality to accommodate different levels of proficiency in their classrooms. To provide support to ELLs and mainstream students teachers must use all of the components of scaffold content and language instruction in their lesson plans. The difference between teaching ELLs and mainstream students is the level of proficiency and approach of students, to help narrow the achievement gap between ELLs and mainstream students ESL teachers must write clearly define language objectives and share it with the students at the beginning of every lesson, model academic language in the target language
Selecting materials relevant to ELL’s experience or culture; strategically using students’ first languages to make the content delivered in a second language more comprehensible teaching word learning strategies that build on first language knowledge such as using cognates; and frequently using partner talk to give low-English-proficient students more opportunities to talk with more English-proficient
I would suggest that the teach speak slowly and provide enough time for the ELL student to think about a response because the students are translating words to English in their minds..
They’ll have an idea of what he’s trying to say and finish the sentence for him. When an ELL is at such a young age they pick up language easier and their peers tend to help with the process more. At an older age students will lean towards being mean to an ELL and make fun of them rather than actually helping them learn the language.
I would say that our strongest resource that supports EAL learners are the Young Interpreters. I feel that this is a very effective resource where children support each other; the Young Interpreters are frequently from the upper key stage who are fluent in English and another language. It is amazing to watch children engage in cross-age learning and to gradually make steady progress through the use of this active resource. It is also apparent that children find it much easier to communicate with another child than an adult, so this 1:1 approach is highly
For the past 40 years, Literacy Connections has been dedicated to developing and offering programs and services to support a literate society. We offer basic literacy and ESL instruction and services for children and families that promote independence and enrichment through literacy. Our slogan and goal is to “help people learn to read, write and reach their potential”. This mission has been the cornerstone and sole focus of our
I had an opportunity to meet the ELL teacher who is responsible for educating ELL students in the district. She allowed me to observe her teaching a couple of her students at Brighton Elementary School. The teacher informed me that she teach ELL students using Scholastic books and a Scholastic app. Additionally, she informed me that the scholastic app is usually used to help students replace missing words in a sentence, and also assist students with pronunciation, punctuation, & comprehension. The students were able to tap on a word and the computer would pronounce the word. The teacher had several strategies that she utilize in her classroom to help students understand the English as their second language, for instance, she mentioned
Literacy Connections serves adult students with the lowest literacy level and immigrants lacking the language skills needed to get a job, help their school-age children and navigate society. Volunteers are recruited, trained and supported to provide one-on-one or small group tutoring to adult students.
I have also learned there is an answer to the illiteracy problem. Literacy Connections recruits and trains people who love to read, and who understand the importance of reading, to be volunteer tutors. Our tutors and students work together, and together they accomplish the most profound difference one can make: our students become literate. They achieve their goals. They reach their potential.
Literacy is important for young children. It’s so much a child has to know before entering kindergarten. The Essentials of Early Literacy Instruction stressed the importance of teaching literacy. Early literacy is an emerging g set of relationships between reading and writing. Today a lot of terms have been referred to for literacy development for preschoolers the term that’s mostly used is early literacy. The term was chosen because the earliest forms of literacy development are forming reading and writing concepts. Linking early literacy to play is the most effective way to for young children to learn. There are many ways educators can teach literacy activities such as rich teacher talk, storybook reading, phonologic awareness activities, alphabet activities, support for emergent writing, shared book experience, integrated, and content-focused activities, Young children understand print by oral and written language. Asking students to help read a book and turn the page help them understand the basics of a book. There are at least three critical content categories in early literacy: oral language comprehension, phonological awareness, and print knowledge. Children need to learn phonological awareness, alphabet letter knowledge, the function of written language, a sense of meaning making texts, and vocabulary. Alphabetic writing is quite difficult once children understand the language of their community they learn which words stand for which concepts in that language.
Culturally responsive teaching is a systematic approach to modern day teaching by taking into consideration the aspects of culture and its values.
Vocabulary plays a significant role in English as second language learning process. For the majority of English as Second Language(ESL) learners, the ultimate goal of learning the language is to understand (read and listen) and communicate (write and speak) with little difficulty and the lack of sufficient vocabulary may be the constraint of such goal (Folse, 2004). As the bedrock of English and as well as language, vocabulary also facilitates the development of other language skills: lexical richness leads to the progress in the use of language, namely listening, speaking, reading and writing skills (Nation, 1994). Reversely, The improvement in such skills may enhance learners vocabulary size as the exposure to more learning materials improves the capacity to acquire new vocabulary. (The importance of learning vocabulary/ why vocabulary?)
ESL students are students that speak English as a second language. Presently, there is many different system to characterize this type of students (qtd in Shi, Steen 63). For example, they can be seen as “English Language Learners (ELL), English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), English Language Development (ELD), English Language Service (ELS), and