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When we have a positive and uplifting classroom for ELLs, it gives the students the opportunity to interact and engage with their native language. Students knowing that they can speak there own mind in the classroom is very important!

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English learners face a real challenge when reading and writing academics in school. Each of these school subjects has its own ways of presenting information.

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'teachers are often unaware that an immigrant

student is confused or has a question, because the traditions of many of these students discourage

questioning the teacher; students may need several

weeks before they feel confident enough to ask

questions.' This stood out to me as I think this is something that is important for teachers to consider in order to make sure their students are all able to have the same level of success. It is also something I hadn't really thought of before.

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Jenny J

I always thought that math was universal and never realized that students from other countries could have difficulty with this as well. It is important that we familiarize ourselves with the way math is used differently in other places

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Jennifer Barajas - English learners need more than lexical understanding to understand history passages and concepts, specifically because they won’t be able to completely understand abstract terms occurring in grammatical structures. Because of this english learners need access to special history content and they need to be involved with this content in a different way. Ex: The book states, “To be linguistically responsive, history teachers need to develop knowledge about how to make content accessible to ELs by giving them access to the ways in which knowledge is constructed in history not by simplifying the texts, but by keeping a focus on forms, functions and meanings present in these texts” pg 166 I thought this was something significant from the text.

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"Make

every attempt to use items in which students have some familiarity, or are unique to their background." I believe that learning about your students culture and backgrounds is important and implementing it in your classroom is even more important.

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"To the extent possible, use real objects to introduce the product words. For process vocabulary, demonstrate the process while repeating the word. Reinforce the vocabulary through the use of the word walls or student-developed personal dictionaries" This part stood out to me because this is an idea I have heard used in the class before. I think it is really important to use this technique so students have a higher chance of acquisition. Emma McAloney

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"To the extent possible, use real objects to introduce the product words. For process vocabulary, demonstrate the process while repeating the word. Reinforce the vocabulary through the use of the word walls or student-developed personal dictionaries" This part stood out to me because this is an idea I have heard used in the class before. I think it is really important to use this technique so students have a higher chance of acquisition. Emma McAloney

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A positive classroom environment for ELLs provides opportunity
this stood out to me because i believe that a positive classroom environment is crucial for any students opportunity to grow and learn.

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We must make clear examples of how other countries may explain problems in mathematics and this allows those who have immigrated here to feel comfortable to speak up and understand.

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"In both the science and language contexts, we look for ways for students to find meaning: meaningful

communication, meaningful questions, meaningful interaction with the materials, and meaningful ways to express understanding." This stuck out to me, because for students to learn, they need to be able to have an interest in what is being taught.

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Before reading this article I never considered the student having trouble understand the language of math. Now I know that when we teach Math to a Second language learner we need to consider how they were taught. As a teacher I will guide them them towards academic language and concepts.

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"A positive classroom environment for ELLs provides the opportunity for ELL students to interact in their own native language" I thought this reading was nice because going to school and being told you can only speak english and would get in trouble for speaking spanish, i think it would be helpful for my classroom to know that they can speak in their own language.

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"Provide bins of materials labeled with a picture of the material, the word describing the material in English, and the word describing the material in the child's native language. " This went practice stood out to me because it was very similar to how we also allow ELL students to take assessments in class. This goes back to we should never force a student to only complete work in L2 because this slows the comprehension of the actual content as well.

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"but knowing a word means knowing how to use it effectively in appropriate contexts." This chunk of text from the reading was a takeaway for me because many people CAN know many words but the question is, are they using those words in proper context? There have been many times where someone posts a story on their snapchat trying to sound "smart" but they don't use their terms in proper context and so it kind of throws off the idea of 'knowing a word means knowing how to use it effectively in appropriate contexts', because no, people typically don't know how to use a word in proper context, including myself hahah.

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I never really thought about how difficult social studies might be to ELL students but it makes sense that there are specific words that for us, make sense, for ELL students, it may be incredibly hard to understand.

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de Oliveira - Academic language in social studies

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de Oliveira - Academic language in social studies

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This article really interested me because I hope to have a focus in social studies and language arts if I teach middle school. What I took away from it is how every discipline is different and it's important to present the academic language in a specific way which is easy for EL learners to comprehend. As an educator, it helps me be aware of the challenges that may arise as far as reading and writing in this discipline, and how I can teach it in a general way where everyone can understand it and express their knowledge as well.

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" This includes

grouping students both homogenously and heterogeneously according to language ability." I thought this idea was interesting because  I was recently learning the same thing with gifted education. It is something that we can definitely use in a classroom that benefits all students.

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Chalmarie Herr Sheltered Instruction Tech. for ELL - 

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Chalmarie Herr Sheltered Instruction Tech. for ELL - 

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The concept of addressing background to subject to be taught - introducing vocabulary both written and visual - discover what they know - relate lesson to real world - group interaction -
This strategy is helpful not only of ELL students but will also help those students who struggle with processing new information quickly. I think is is important to make the lesson fun for those gifted learners while still providing the additional help for ELL Students and those students who may struggle.

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"Avoid traditional methods of vocabulary development such as starting the lesson by looking up each word in the dictionary. Instead,

use multiple methods to reinforce vocabulary knowledge." This was a big take away for me because to me this is something that may have good intent and seem good at first but really it is just hurting ELL's and there are more productive and affective methods.

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"for every student, academic language is a second language" at the very beginning of the reading, and in comparison to relaxed and informal language.