Note: Normally, I do not publish my blog, English
Updates, on weekends. However, I publish several other blogs during the
week having to do with ideas in English education that are not current, but
still useful. On weekends, I will publish samples of these ideas. RayS.
Question: What can regular classroom teachers do in working with ESL
students?
Answer: Read aloud daily to students.
Quote: “ESL students of all ages and levels of reading
proficiency benefit from listening to stories, poems and information texts….
Select materials which…contain pictures or illustrations…. Ask students to
predict what comes next…. Follow the reading with discussion of meaning of the
text, possible alternative interpretations, and predictions of what will come
next.”
Comment: All of these techniques will be useful to native
speakers of English. RayS.
Title: “Instructional Approaches and Teaching Procedures.” AU
Chamot and JM O’Malley. Pp. 82-107. In Kids Come in All Languages: Reading
Instruction for ESL Students. Eds. K Spangensberg-Urgschat and R
Pritchard. Newark, DE: IRA. 1994.
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