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TESOL English Language Bulletin- 4 Harmful Myths About Linguistically Minoritized Students 30 January 2023
- What's the right mindset for teaching English learners? A teacher explains 30 January 2023
- NNEST-IS Webinar: Emerging NNEST Leaders: Where do we begin? 30 January 2023
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Tag Archives: young learners
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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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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4 Poetry Ideas for Young Language Learners
Hetal Ascher
Language learners can often find writing poetry to be an intimidating task, but with some structure and examples, poetry can be easy and fun to write for language learners of any level. Incorporating poetry into your English lessons is a … Continue reading
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5 Ways Phonics Is Different for English Learners
Barbara Gottschalk
Chalkbeat Philadelphia recently published a great article about the difficulties young English learners (ELs) in the Philadelphia School District were facing during the pandemic. What spoke to me in the story was a quote from EL teacher Shuxin Chen. She described … Continue reading
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Language Acquisition vs. Language Learning in Elementary School
Judie Haynes
One of the questions I am most frequently asked is how I teach grammar rules to young English learners (ELs). Well, the truth is that I never taught out-of-context grammar to young students. I learned early in my career that … Continue reading
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Teaching Writing to Young Learners: 10 Online Resources
Elena Shvidko
Today I will share a few websites that contain helpful resources and materials for teaching writing to young learners. 1. Creative Writing Teacher Resources This collection of printables, graphic organizers, lesson plans, and activities helps teachers to build learner’ creative … Continue reading
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