Emphasis on the end: early reading development is actually ORAL LANGUAGE development. Early elementary ELL teachers have already seen the way this plays out for ELs.
Emphasis on the end: early reading development is actually ORAL LANGUAGE development. Early elementary ELL teachers have already seen the way this plays out for ELs.
"Does a country fall into fascism the way a person falls in love? Or, more accurately, in hate?"
βArundhati Roy, Azadi
Important for language teachers. gianfrancoconti.com/2025/03/29/y...
Listening to students doing the speaking portion of the ELPA21 and thinkingβ¦well, whoever ends up scoring this one is in for a treat. π #elpa21 #elsky
I donβt have one! Partly because they all kind of blur together. Iβve given 5 stars to only two though: Love, Theoretically and Check & Mate! You?
I loved the first book! Books 2 and 3 werenβt my favorite. Just started season 3 of the show. My husband (who didnβt read the books) loves the show!
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Student: βI want to be a scientist but the words are likeβ¦ so high as Mount Everest in my brain.β
The challenges of being an EL! π
Donβt worry, little guy! Weβre learning tier 2 vocab! π
#ELLthings #EduSky #vocabulary
A new anchor chart just dropped!
#edusky #ELLthings
Me: "What is a myth?"
Student: "A myth is when you bust things!"
#EduSky #ELLthings #langsky #mythbusters
Me: "I don't know exactly how long ago...it happened in ancient times."
Student: "Ancient times? Like the eighties?"
#EduSky #ELLthings #langsky
Iβm asking my district for the same to be shared!
Maus author Art Spiegelman to collaborate with Joe Sacco on Gaza comic www.middleeasteye.net/discover/mau...
Just now seeing that DHS will make arrests in and around schools/churches. This has horrible implications.
Many relevant presidential actions today:
1.Suspension of the refugee program
2.Suspending the entry of βaliensβ across the southern border
3.Birthright citizenship no longer guaranteed
4. End all federally funded diversity, equity, & inclusion programs
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
The amount of ed tech people consistently promoting AI tools is staggering. We need to be careful about how we roll out some of these items with students.
Iβm guessing theyβre keeping them open with the hopes that we will be back on soon. Unfortunately that does leave US accounts susceptible to hacking and itβs creepy in the meantime..
π§΅A while ago, I posted about how I teach vocabulary. I collect all tier 2 vocab from the unit I'll be teaching + within my discrete grammar lesson each wk we do 20 ish mins of vocab work. In this thread, I'll go through what that looks like + then at the end link to the resource
Crossing my fingers for this kind of relationship with my future kids
The first thing I would like to mention is that there must be a recognition on the part of everybody in this nation that America is still a racist country,β King said, addressing an audience in Michigan days before his murder. βNow however unpleasant that sounds, it is the truth. And we will never solve the problem of racism until there is a recognition of the fact that racism still stands at the center of so much of our nation and we must see racism for what it is.β Had he lived another week, he would have presented a Sunday sermon called βWhy America May Go to Hell.β
This year, letβs remember King as the radical he was wapo.st/3PYexff
One of my new ELs is learning so much in a completely new environment to him. I taught him how to use the tape dispenser. While I was with another student, he used up the rest of my tape to put his airplane up on the sound wallβ¦π€
#ELLthings
Me, turning a paper over under my doc cam: βFlip to the back!β
Student: βUmmβ¦teacher? Flip to the back?β
He proceeded to stand up and pretend to do a BACK FLIPβ¦π€
#EduSky #ELLthings #langsky
Screenshot of three consecutive emails from Best Buy reading: 1) Your package is ready for our delivery partner; 2) Your package has been delivered; 3) Your package is going to be delivered.
Thanks, BestBuy, for writing my verb tense quiz for this week.
Just because you speak English does not mean you have the skill set of an #EAL teacher. That being said some of the most extraordinary EAL teachers I have known, have had different languages as their first, and added English to their repertoire.
I love story cubes! Especially for sub plans. π
The Best Practical Resources For Helping Teachers, Students & Families Respond To Immigration Challenges larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2017/02/26/t... #ELsky
I caught the tail end of the story as I was getting in my car β checking it out now!
#ELSKY
Q1: I don't have students this year so I'm going to reference 2016. when I was teaching 9th and 10th ESOL and coaching Wrestling. I remember the day after the election, my 9th grade students were quiet-like oddly quiet. A student wrote on her hand in sharpie "Not My President" and then
I just came across them recently! I was very taken aback!
Solo: Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing
Collaborative: Pico Park, Moving Out, Overcooked
There are so many out there! I have more but forgot what theyβre called. π