When I was an itinerant teacher at an intermediate unit, I conducted a meeting with the principal, special education teacher, and my student's father. The translator was late because she got lost trying to find the school in rural Pennsylvania. She finally showed up during the last five minutes of the meeting. She asked the father if he had any questions. Mind you, this Guatemalan man only had two years of education. His question was, "What is math?" He knew it as matematicas.
Effective Lesson Plans for ELLS include:
- Building background knowledge
- Create interest by using pictures, realia or personal experiences
- Build text-specific knowledge by providing students with information from the text beforehand
- Develop concept background by explaining difficult concepts and labeling them with key words
- Establish the purpose for reading, ex. KWL
- Select a specific comprehension strategy for the students to use
www.Colorincolorado.org, How to Develop a Lesson Plan that Includes ELLs.
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