Teachers of Emergent Bilinguals! October is Dyslexia Awareness Month! Many of you, with or without realizing it, may have emergent bilinguals with dyslexia in your classroom. We’re focused on equity through evidence-based instruction this year,…
Hello teachers of Emergent Bilinguals! Welcome to a newly updated aebll.com! My name is Ingrid Heidrick, and I’m the founder of Advocating for Emergent Bilinguals through Language & Literacy. I’m a linguist, educator and advocate for Emergent…
It’s Black History Month and a perfect time to teach emergent bilinguals content, language and literacy. Essential questions about human struggle, civil rights, and fighting for change are sensitive but inspiring topics many of our students can relate to.
How are our students doing? How are we as teachers doing, personally and in our teaching practice? Let’s take a breath and pause. Then, let’s reconnect and reassess!
This is the first Thanksgiving for many of our students. It’s is an excellent opportunity to teach the content, language, and literacy around Thanksgiving. Wouldn’t be wonderful to do a little Thanksgiving lesson with them?
Part of teaching them how to read means teaching them phonics – the sound to symbol correspondences of written English. Soon, we will also be teaching morphology (prefixes, base words and roots, and suffixes).
I’m here to help us keep steady teaching linguistic skills all week long, week by week, and get our students listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Last week, I laid out basic steps for lesson planning for language and literacy in Stand Alone. Now I’d like to help with lesson planning for targeted linguistic skills that our students need to advance in their English acquisition – a key aspect often missing from Stand Alone.
I’ve taken you through the planning process – thinking about themes, topics and objectives, a scope and sequence, and assessments, and classroom routines for foundational literacy. Now it’s time to lesson plan for language and literacy!
Today I’m going to talk to you about classroom routines for foundational literacy in Stand Alone.
You have a plan, you have your themes and content objectives, you have your scope and sequence! After meeting your students on Thursday and getting settled, let’s get started with assessments for Stand Alone – the key to data-driven instruction.
I have a plan for ENL Stand Alone! Specifically, this year I am going to take you through a scope and sequence of linguistics skills that you will teach September through June.