Content objectives for a content area
This year, my goal is to help you plan out an entire year of YOUR content area: Stand Alone instruction of English as a New Language (ENL). Part of that planning includes content objectives for a content area.
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A plan for ENL Stand Alone
For NYC teachers, Thursday, September 8th is just a few weeks away. But fear not! I have a plan for ENL Stand Alone.
Subjects and predicates: the basis of reading comprehension
This week, we are going to dive deep into subjects and predicates, because together they create a sentence, and form the basis of reading comprehension!
Using syntax to read closely
This month, I want to dive deeper into perhaps the most misunderstood practice in schools today: Close Reading. Specifically, I want to show you how to use syntax to read closely with your students, so they can build comprehension.
Dictation: the neglected piece of phonics instruction
Dictation is the last step in our phonics sample lesson for emergent bilinguals, when the teacher dictates words and sentences targeting the sound-spelling objective, and students write them down!
Phonics for emerging bilinguals: Introducing new information
This week, we’re on to Step 2 of a lesson plan template for phonics for emergent bilinguals: Introducing new information.
A phonics lesson template for emergent bilinguals
Today I’m going to give you a phonics lesson template for emergent bilinguals that strengthens decoding and encoding skills for all students.
Phonics: What every emergent bilingual needs to know
There’s just no way around phonics: here’s what every emergent bilingual needs to know.
Inform and transform your students’ vocabulary with roots!
We’ve talked base words. We’ve talked prefixes and suffixes. It’s time to talk roots so we can inform and transform your students’ vocabulary!
¡Reading comprehension/comprensión with suffixes!
I want to take this opportunity to show you English-Spanish suffix cognates – yes they’re the same!
The most important prefixes to teach your students, K-12
This week we’re going to target the most important prefixes to teach your students, K-12. All students – but especially emergent bilinguals – need to acquire large amounts of vocabulary.
Boost your students’ vocabulary with base words!
We need to start with Step 1 of morphology instruction and teach our students to recognize base words. Morphological awareness is a top predictor of reading comprehension in emergent bilinguals (and other students) – use it to boost vocabulary with base words!