Hello Teachers of emergent bilinguals! 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. What’s the […]
Private: Blog: All children are AEBLL!
Welcome to my blog! Are you a hard-working NY teacher who is trying your best to teach your English Language Learners but is honestly frustrated and confused about how to help them advance academically? I'm a linguist and an Advocate for Emergent Bilinguals through Language and Literacy. I believe all children are AEBLL. My passion is teaching teachers. I want to give all teachers expert knowledge of language and literacy acquisition, and evidence-based strategies for the classroom. Explore topics like phonological awareness, oral language development, and dyslexia and find links to resources and teaching materials!Adolescent Newcomers: A Profile
Happy 4th! In July, all children are aebll wants to profile specific groups of diverse English Learners so that readers can gain a more in-depth understanding of their linguistic needs in school. This week I’m going to introduce you to Samira (*not an actual student), an adolescent newcomer with developing literacy. It’s a common – […]
What is Oral Language?
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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. […]
Getting kids reading: Shifting from text-based to oral language-based instruction
Since the advent of the Common Core, states have demanded that students grapple with and “learn from” complex texts. This has resulted in teachers using a primarily text-based mode of instruction: instruction is dominated by Close Reading of the text that focuses on a “comprehension skill” like finding the main idea and details. Then, students […]
Don’t forget about phonological awareness!
Read the following sentence taken from a 3rd grade module on the bullfrog and its habitat and observe how the meaning changes with different intonation and stress, as indicated by the punctuation and emphasis in italics: The bullfrog eats the moth. The bullfrog eats the moth? The bullfrog eats the moth! The bullfrog eats the […]