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Tag Archives: elementary ESL
Literacy and New MLLs in U.S. Elementary Schools: Another Look
Judie Haynes
In my August blog post, I talked about the characteristics of multilingual learners (MLLs) who come from families and communities that are literacy oriented. I described a family whose daughter, Angela, made an excellent adjustment to U.S. elementary schools because … Continue reading
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Tagged as elementary education, elementary ESL, elementary reading, family literacy, literacy, primary education, primary ESL, primary school
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Literacy and New MLLs in U.S. Elementary Schools
Judie Haynes
Teachers of multilingual learners (MLLs) in the United States will be meeting new students from many countries this fall. Recently arrived students from Ukraine, Haiti, Russia, Afghanistan, and Central and South America, to name a few, will be welcomed to … Continue reading
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Tagged as elementary education, elementary ESL, family literacy, literacy, newcomers, primary education, primary ESL
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5 Gestures to Teach MLLs
Judie Haynes
In my June blog, entitled “The Importance of Body Language for Effective Oral Communication,” I introduced how important it is to teach body language to multilingual language learners (MLLs) so that they can learn to communicate effectively. I specifically discussed … Continue reading
The Importance of Body Language for Effective Oral Communication
Judie Haynes
For those educators who are teaching multilingual language learners (MLLs), body language is an important topic to address. Teachers of MLLs need to impart to their students that speaking to others is more than putting words together. If we create … Continue reading
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Tagged as elementary education, elementary ESL, primary education, primary ESL, Reading Body Language
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6 Questions to Support Multilingual Learners in Learning Content-Area Vocabulary
Judie Haynes
If teachers of multilingual learners (MLLs), whether they are in the general education classroom or in an ESL class, want to help MLLs to understand content-area texts, they need to use strategies that help students gain new academic vocabulary. Here … Continue reading
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Tagged as content-based instruction, elementary ESL, elementary writing, ESL vocab, primary education, Teaching Vocabulary
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Are Your EL Expectations High—or Hurried?
Barbara Gottschalk
January brings the beginning of a new year and an opportunity to start fresh. We make resolutions and hold ourselves to high expectations. After a few weeks, however, resolve dwindles. Why? Experts say we need to set achievable goals and … Continue reading
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Tagged as elementary education, elementary ESL, primary education, primary ESL, reading, teaching reading, young learners
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4 Reasons to Celebrate “Random Acts of Kindness Day”
Judie Haynes
Multilingual learners’ (MLLs) well-being, as they return to school at the height of the spread of the Omicron variant, is at risk. Our MLLs spent 17 months of isolation during virtual learning. Many of them returned to school last fall … Continue reading
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Tagged as elementary education, elementary ESL, primary education, primary ESL, SEL, social-emotional learning
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Navigating the Reading Wars With English Learners
Barbara Gottschalk
If you follow literacy issues, you have probably heard of the Reading Wars. If you haven’t, Jill Barshay’s recent article for the Hechinger Report does the best job I’ve seen yet of explaining the nuts and bolts of this disagreement … Continue reading
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Tagged as elementary education, elementary ESL, primary education, primary ESL, reading, teaching reading, young learners
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