Strategies for Supporting English Language Learnings in the K-12 Classroom.

1. Teaching English
Language Learners
Dr. Patricia Dickenson
Teacher Education
National University
November 12, 2015

3. Our Language Learners
2,685,793 students in
California speak a
language other than
English in their
homes.
This number
represents about
43.1% of the public
school enrollment

5. Speaking Skills
O Collaborative: Offering opinions, negotiating,
interactive writing, exchanging ideas
O Interpretive: analyzing language choice, reading
closely and listening actively
O Productive: composing writing, presenting and
supporting opinions.
O Structuring Cohesive Texts: Understanding the
organization of text structures
O Connecting and Condensing Ideas: within
sentences, use of clauses to connect ideas using a
variety of sources
O Expanding and Enriching Ideas: using verbs and
verb prphrases, oun and noun phrases and
modifiers

6. The Role of 1st Language
O Native language influences how students
acquire second language
O Differences in phonemic sounds,
structure, word order, grammar &
pronunciation
O Teachers need to understand how the
native language is similar and different to
English
O Rectangulo = rectangle
O Cara= face
O Mil = thousand

7. Key Strategies
1. Give students sentence frames using
academic vocabulary to utilize.
If the product is _______, then the factors
can be ____ and _____.

8. Productive Partners
Set up:
1. Make eye contact with
elbow partner
2. Determine who will be
Partner 1 & 2
3. No #3 (second #2 will
share after first)
4. Observe the “4 Ls”
Scary Statistic: Only 4% of
an ELL school day is
spent engaging in student
talk.

9. Build Relationships
1. Check In & Check Out: Take five minutes
to check and see how their day is going
at beginning of class and what is
happening in their lives. Take five at the
end of class to summarize learning and
what they still have questions about.

10. Explicit Instruction
1. Make Content Accessible to ALL
2. Build connections by tapping into
background knowledge & personal
experiences
3. Use storytelling to pose word problems

11. Plan Purposeful
O Use Graphic Organizers
O Provide Mnemonic Devices
O Support Inquiry Based Problems
O Design TPR: Total Physical Response
O Engage Peer Teaching
O Provide Vocabulary Bank
O Prepare Critical Thinking Questions

12. Vocabulary Bank: Which One?

13. Teach Meaningfully
Source: goo.gl/vsOjOD

14. Got Questions?
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