12:30 - 2:30
Handout Packet Distributed
Cultural Difficulties - Male/Female, Attitudes to Teachers/Education, Parent involvement, etc.
Linguistic Difficulties - Multiple meaning words, Sentence structure, 24 tenses, idioms
Reading/Writing Challenges - Literacy in naitive language, Imagery/symbolism, etc.
Decomposing and Comprehension for ELLs - takes 5 years to develop complex language needed for interpretation
Support ELLs - Avoid idioms, simple sentence structures, modify writing assignments (accept shorter versions), provide word banks, use visuals
Vocabulary Building - (guided activity)- Preview-Predict-Confirm (PPC)- Preview pictures in book, predict words the author will use, discuss (activity in handout)
Did you know... students need to know at least 90% of the words in a text in order to understand what they are reading.
Did you know... an average native English speaker enters kindergarten knowing at least 5000 words.
Did you know... at least 30% of all English words have a cognate in Romance languages.
Did you know... at least 36% of daily language in English is figurative.
Cognate Activity
Figurative Language Activity
Tips for teaching Idoms: Cartoons, Comic Strips, Ads. Encourage students to record and discuss
Make and Take - Square paper, fold in corners to middle, write 4 items on outside (first, middle, then, last) and students will write thought, summary, picture, etc. on inside of "flap".
Multiple Meaning for Math Vocab - Table, Foot, Tree, Log, yard, meter, face, formula
How many different words we use for +, -, x, /, =
Support for ELLs in Math - Illustrations, diagrams, highlight important info/cross out unimportant info
Modifying an Assessment - shortening does not help (Will shortening a paragraph in Russian to two sentences help?
Make and Take
ELL Struggles in Social Studies - Government, personal beliefs contradict information
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