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Tag Archives: primary education
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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7 Resources From the #MLLCHAT Community
Judie Haynes
I have long been an active member of a Twitter community that supports teachers of multilingual learners (MLLs). If you check the #MLLCHAT hashtag on Twitter (formerly #ELLCHAT), you will find many educators who write books, articles, and blogs on … Continue reading
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Tagged as online resources, primary, primary education, primary ESL
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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
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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