Teaching Absolute Beginners: an ESL Teacher's Handbook
Imagine the following scenario:You have just started working as an ESL teacher. Or you may be a mainstream teacher with little to no experience in teaching English learners. Heck, you may be an experienced ESL/mainstream teacher who hasn't had to work with a newcomer for a while!And you've just gotten a new student who speaks no English. At all.Where do you begin? What and how do you teach? What do you even need to know before you embark on this (English) teaching journey?The Teaching Absolute B
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Labeling Pictures to Support ELLs - A World of Language Learners
Labeling pictures is a simple strategy to help ESL students and beginning writers practice vocabulary and generate ideas for writing. ELL newcomers might only label and higher level students can then use the words in their writing. Learn more ideas about how to have students label pictures.
What to do with ELL Newcomer Students - Fun to Teach
The main goal of our English language learner (ELL) students is to expose them to the language. That means that our lessons are rooted in teaching vocabulary words that will help students understand the words they’re hearing, reading, and writing. Unfortunately, if we only teach students vocabulary words we are doing them a disservice. Why is that? you ask – well we have to teach ELL Newcomer students how to use the words too. Read more on the blog here!