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How to Improve Reading Comprehension? Team With a Theme
Barbara Gottschalk
“We don’t read that much at school. Mostly we do our work,” observed Selena, a third grade multilingual learner (MLL). I knew the “work” she was referring to involved reading, but obviously she didn’t think it was real reading. I … Continue reading
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Checking Reading Comprehension? Ask Better Questions!
Barbara Gottschalk
“Ms. Gottschalk, don’t you get it?” The young English learner (EL) asking me this question was genuinely concerned. He was perplexed because I kept asking him and his classmates questions about a picture—questions whose answers I obviously already knew. In … Continue reading
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Tagged as ELT reading, primary, primary education, reading comprehension, teaching reading
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Optimizing Reading Comprehension for MLLS: 6 Strategies
Judie Haynes
When my school first adopted the Reading Workshop, a teaching method in which the goal is to teach students strategies for reading and comprehension, I became a proponent of this approach and worked to find ways to adapt it to … Continue reading
Better Reading Comprehension: 5 Strategies
Elena Shvidko
Today I’ll share five reading strategies that were helpful to me when I was an ESL student, and, hopefully, they will be valuable to your students as well.
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Tagged as evergreen, reading activities, reading comprehension, reading strategies
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Adapting Folktales for ELL Learning Activities
Nathan Hall
We content-based teachers often struggle with how to make students focus on the specific reading skills we want them to learn without being distracted or overwhelmed by the language. This gets more difficult when my activity focuses on fiction, especially … Continue reading
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Tagged as classroom practice, evergreen, fiction, idioms, Nathan Hall, reading comprehension, secondary education, teaching culture
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5 Sites for Using Mainstream News in ELL Classes
Nathan Hall
Those of us who grew up before the Internet remember how our parents read newspapers and magazines. We may even recall that time we tried to read one but couldn’t make sense of most of the words. After that happened … Continue reading
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Tagged as evergreen, Nathan Hall, online resources, reading comprehension, secondary education, teaching news
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All the News That’s Fit to Teach: Reviewing News Sites for ELLs
Nathan Hall
When I was an ESL volunteer with a community program, I thought using brief articles from magazines like Time or Newsweek for reading activities was a good idea. They seemed easy to read and had articles about interesting subjects, right? … Continue reading
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Tagged as evergreen, Nathan Hall, reading comprehension, secondary education, teaching news
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Literature in ELT: Integrating Literature into Language Learning
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A Guest Post by Sybil Marcus Sybil Marcus has lived and worked on four continents. She taught ESL at the University of California at Berkeley Extension and at the Summer English Language Studies on the Berkeley campus. She has presented at … Continue reading