Listening activities can be included in your lessons regardless of the content area or grade level. Dr. Mooney provides several suggestions for how you can help your ELs develop their listening skills without even realizing their doing it!
Listen up! Creating listening-focused lessons and integrating listening skills throughout other lessons provides students opportunities to develop these important skills.
Whaddaya think? Is listening to English difficult? The answer is as obvious as the nose on your face, but this week, Dr. Mooney provides several concrete examples to explain the challenges English learners face while listening to English in your clas...
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Infographic
Thanks for the Phonology infographic! Very helpful info for me and my district!
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Artist’s/Writer’s Workshop
The Universal Language of Pictures: A Critical Tool for Advancing Student Writing by Beth Olshansky provides a strong rationale for leading students to begin their writing projects with artwork. You can read my article about a few of her ideas, but w...
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Enjoyed learning about this alternative to frontloading vocabulary. I think there are many teachers out there who teach using a discovery method like you shared in the magnetism lesson example, but they don’t realize the importance of connectin...
