Assignment 1

Segment 1 – Where do I start?

How can teachers' expectations of ELLs affect students' learning and performance?

Positive expectations for ELL can positively affect their achievement. If teachers are prepared that their students may not be fluent in English, yet they can still achieve at the same level as their English-speaking peers, they will see much success. Teachers should view their ELL as responsible to the same standards as their English speaking peers.

How can you use what you already know about literacy instruction and your English language learners to enhance their learning?

Teachers can use what they already know about literacy instruction to help ELL. When teachers know the fundamentals of literacy instruction, they can use it to clearly teach the processes that students need to know. Teachers should know how comprehension occurs, the writing process, and have a broad knowledge of children's literature. Students will succeed up to the standards that the teacher has set for them. Teachers should teach their students and provide them with the same access as their peers have.

Segment 2: How can I build on what English language learners bring to the classroom?

Think about your ELLs. What ideas from the video might be useful in your classroom?

I thought that having students share from pictures, stories, or ideas from their own culture will make them feel validated. When students feel special about where they come from and the things they do differently, they'll be more willing to work hard and show what they know in the classroom.

How can you ensure that ELLs and their English-speaking peers have equal access to the curriculum? When students have the opportunity to incorporate their first language into the learning of English, they'll be able transfer their skills and strategies into their understanding of English

How can you support students in maintaining their first language?

ELL will probably be speaking their first language at home or to other family members so its important to keep it up as well. The classroom should have a library with books in different languages. The teacher should use bilingual books during whole-class instruction.

Segment 3: How can the classroom context support ELLs?

How can you use multicultural literature to support ELLs in your curriculum?

Teachers can use books that have topics that interest the students that come from other countries and that have connections to everyday lives . Books that are about students' country of origin brings the diversity alive in the classroom.

How can you group students so that they use their native language to support their language and literacy development?

Students that speak the same language can work together in their writing and reading development to support each other.

Segment 4: What are some strategies for teaching ELLs?

What aspects of reading development are most critical to address when instructing ELLs?

How can modeling oral reading support ELLs?

When students listwn to oral reading, they can hear how the language is supposed to sound. During oral reading, they don't have the pressure of reading correctly. They can focus their attention while listening to understand the meaning of the unfamiliar words.

What strategies can you use to teach students how to figure out and remember unknown words?

Context clues can be very helpful for students to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words. Students can write down the words so they can refer back to it in a personal dictionary or the words can be displayed on a word wall. Using the words over and over again and talking about them and demonstrating them will help students remember them. Teachers should give plenty of opportunities for students to use these words. Teachers can also let them use a bilingual dictionary.

What are some strategies you might use to encourage students' to maintain their native language as they develop literacy in English?

They can do some assignments in their own language in addition to English because in the future their ability to use a second language can prove to be very useful.