Teach Sight Words in Context
Here is a great book, made by Kristen Eberly, to teach the vocabulary of relationships in families. It also explicitly teaches and provides practice with sight words. Two short sentences per page. Lends itself to oral practice with sentence stems and pronouns he/she!
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Heard about EXC-ELL strategies?
Try introducing vocabulary before your read alouds and using it to boost engagement with listening targets!
Linda Montoya and Allyson Henschel have had great success getting students super excited about learning vocabulary. They are using listening targets to help students get engaged and stay engaged during their read alouds. They introduce vocabulary using a modified version of the EXC-ELL strategies we've learned (Thank you to Sarah Donahoo!). Then students show how they know the words by acting them out with specific movements during the read aloud. Check out these powerpoints to use with a Cynthia Rylant author study. These books are perfect for the fall season. Modify them or use them as is!
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Wondering about SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol)? Check out our own Kindergarten team using SIOP to teach Jan Brett's The Mitten
Kristen Eberly put together this amazing unit to teach Jan Brett's The Mitten. It comes complete with lesson plans, powerpoint to introduce vocabulary, guided reading materials, listening targets, sentences stems and more! Laminate the Mitten character cards and use them as a listening target. Pass them out and have the students hold up the card when they hear their animal in the story. You can see Kristen Hunt using them this way in the video.
Want to learn more about SIOP? Check out this super helpful article: Using the SIOP Model with Young Learners
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Want to Turn it into an Author Study? Continue your SIOP instruction with The Hat!
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Wondering about Phonological Awareness activities for English Learners?
Check out the powerpoint we shared with Kindergarten. It has a class profile to view where your English learners fall in the WIDA levels, a WIDA speaking rubric, and ideas for modifying your phonological awareness activities.
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This porta portal was created by an EL teacher who just led a course for new EL teachers. There's tons and tons of resources, not only for ELs, but for all students! Click here for a link to the Porta Portal.