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Tag Archives: elementary ESL
The Importance of Body Language for Effective Oral Communication
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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6 Questions to Support Multilingual Learners in Learning Content-Area Vocabulary
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?
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”
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
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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5 Tips for Supporting New Multilingual Students and Families
Over the last fortnight, I spoke with several immigrant families with school-aged children who narrated to me their stories of migration and starting a new life in a different country. As they reflected on their experiences of starting a new … Continue reading
4 Poetry Ideas for Young Language Learners
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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Tagged as elementary education, elementary ESL, L2 writing, poetry, teaching writing, young learners
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4 Critical Strategies for Teaching Multilingual Learners
Recently, #MLLCHAT on Twitter had a dynamic discussion based on a new book by authors Andrea Honigsfeld, Maria Dove, Audrey Cohen, and Carrie McDermott Goldman entitled From Equity Insights to Action: Critical Strategies for Teaching Multilingual Learners. We were honored … Continue reading