A plan to boost your students’ reading comprehension with morphological awareness
Today I want to outline a plan for you to boost your students’ reading comprehension with morphological awareness.
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Plan for language acquisition Monday through Friday
I want to help you plan for language acquisition Monday through Friday: a template to help you take your students from oral language to reading to writing over the course of each week.
A plan to plan your unit
So often, teachers are not given the time for strategic thinking about their units, resulting in lesson-by-lesson planning mode. I want to give you a tool to do some Big Picture thinking in order to see a path to advancing your students forward in their language and literacy skills.
Spanish Language Resources for Bilingual Classrooms
In this post, I am featuring Spanish Language resources and bilingual classroom Language Arts units from a few of my students at the College of Staten Island, CUNY who are in the process of acquiring their Bilingual Extension Certificates (while managing their own classrooms full-time!).
Start Planning for Close Reading: Integrated ELA/ENL Unit Planner
I have the next section of my integrated ELA/ENL Unit Planner ready for you: let’s start planning for Close Reading!
Start Planning for Oral Language: Integrated ELA/ENL Unit Planner
In today’s post, we are going to start planning for oral language using an Integrated ELA/ENL Unit Planner.
English Learners with Disabilities: A Profile
Our series on diverse learners ends this week with last, but not least, a look at English Learners with Disabilities.
Long Term English Learners: A Profile
This week, I profile what can happen when literacy skills do not advance and students become Long Term English Learners (LTELs).
Our Youngest Newcomers: A Profile
This week in our July series of profiles of diverse English Learners (ELs), I’m going to turn the spotlight on our youngest newcomers – those who were either born in the United States to immigrant parents, or arrived just before starting school, and are still developing their English.
Adolescent Newcomers: A Profile
This week I’m going to introduce you to Samira (*not an actual student), an adolescent newcomer with developing literacy.
What is Oral Language?
What is oral language? How do we acquire it?
THANK YOU TEACHERS
THANK YOU New York City teachers (and ALL teachers everywhere). You went above and beyond the call of duty to serve your students during the unprecedented-in-history COVID-19 school closures, despite frightening illness, deaths of colleagues and loved ones, social turmoil and the sheer exhaustion of doing your job in a new way under incredible pressure. As a parent and advocate for Emergent Bilinguals and Students With Disabilities, I sincerely thank you.