In teaching English Language Learners I often learn something new about the culture
each year. It may be a new recipe or it might be a cultural story. In my classroom I promote a balanced literary. My classroom is set up to promote Reading with comfortable seating area within the classroom with a library of all different types of books that are relatable to student's culture.
A Balanced literary approach is used in my classroom which involves shared reading, partner sharing, Read aloud, interactive writing, . A good portion of the time is read learning to read in English with the use of Sight Words , Word knowledge and Vocabulary , Phonemic awareness, Reading Comprehension. Books in the student's primary language is provided to read in addition to English readers until the transition to English occurs.
I am a strong supporter of a vocabulary driven reading program because this is a very important part of building comprehension in any language. A focus on multiple meaning words, synonyms and antonyms is an integral part of the vocabulary development for my EL students as well as readers theatre when words are acted out in a mock theatre in a corner of the classroom.
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