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IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
Home Language Survey: English 2007-2008
Home Language Survey: Spanish 2007-2008
Home Language Survey: Vietnamese 2007-2008
ELL Pre-K
Screening
Parent Notification
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Upcoming trainings/meetings
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Teaching Tidbits
TIP #19
Kernel Essays (with permission from Gretchen Bernabei)
ELL students can be intimidated by
the idea of writing. They are often afraid they don’t have any ideas or
think that they can’t put them together. One idea that can help is by
providing them with structure for writing - the Kernel Essay. Kernel essays
are short mini-essays or rehearsals or starting points for an essay.
Students answer questions in complete sentences and then discover that they
have not only the format for an essay, but also a lot more to say! A good
beginning format is used for a memory essay. A memory essay recreates a
moment of time in written format. (when you got a scar, a time you laughed
so hard, when you were very proud of someone, a moment when someone put
money in your hand, etc.)
The boxes are a graphic reminder and mental map to let them know to write
what is asked for.
What happened last? (what was the final event?)
What happened next?
How did it start (What happened 1st?)
1. Where were you when it happened?
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Where were you
when it happened?è |
How did it start?
What happened first?è |
What happened
next?è |
What happened last?
What was the final
result?è |
What did
you think? |
What did you think?
Another box can be added after
they have written this much, asking what the lesson learned from that event
was (after all, out of the billions of moments in their lives they chose
this one to write about). They can then decide if this statement of the
lesson learned belongs at the beginning or end. After writing this much,
students can come back the next day and easily add more about each of the
original sentences by adding additional details or sensory information.
"Teaching Tips" Archive
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Weblinks
WIDA standards for ELL These are the
standards now used by the State of Oklahoma and TESOL for ELL students. Just
click on the ELP standards on the navigation panel on the left side of the
screen. www.wida.us
Learn
more at www.colorincolorado.org
- articles, strategies and bright ideas for the ELL classroom with a link to
Reading Rockets.
Bilingual Graphic Organizers - Lots of great graphic
organizers in both English and Spanish. Don’t be fooled by the short list on
the homepage; there are lots of organizers in each link and even different
organizers in the portrait and landscape views. For example, the
characterization link has 24 different graphic organizers – including a
characterization about me so each student can describe themselves.
http://www.region15.org/curriculum/graphicorg.html
ESL
Homepages:
http://home.earthlink.net/~eslteacher/mainlinks.html
Has links to almost every other ESL
site on the web, as well as teaching strategies and content
links.
National
Clearinghouse on English Language Acquisition:
www.ncela.gwu.edu
ESL Resource
Site:
www.bogglesworld.com
Learn English:
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/ Web
site from Britain, so a few British expressions. Click on
learnEnglishkids and they have songs, games, poems and topics to study for
elementary kids. Click on a topic from the main page – stories, poems,
grammar - for the older students.
Everything Site
www.everythingesl.net
Every type
of teacher resource for the ESL classroom.
A Little Bit of Everything
http://eslcafe.com/
Dave’s ESL Café.
http://www.mes-english.com/ -
games, flashcards, bingo cards and
projects for the ELL classroom
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Lesson
Plans
Note:
The
lessons below were designed by teachers within our very own district! As
with everything, these teachers are at different levels of use within the
SIOP model. As they continue to work on implementing the various aspects
of the model, they may choose to modify and add to these lessons. If you
have questions about the lesson plan, please contact the teacher. If you
use the lesson plan, please give us feedback on how well it worked. If
you have lesson plans that have worked well with your ELL students, please
share! You can send your lesson plans and comments to
boggske@tulsaschools.org (Please
include standards or benchmark in the lesson plan.)
Need a template to create additional SIOP lesson plans?
SIOP Lesson Plan Template
(Adapted from Echevarria,
Vogt, and Short Making Content Comprehensible)
SIOP Lesson Plan Checklist
(Adapted from Echevarria,
Vogt, and Short Making Content Comprehensible) |
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