English Language Learners face many challenges in the content areas. The content area I am exploring today is Social Studies.
Of course the first challenge is a child's level of fluency in English. For the classroom, a student needs to be proficient in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English.
Word banks, personal glossaries, visual aids, drama, readers' theater, poetry, personal illustrations, music, partner reading and writing are some strategies I use to enhance an ELL's understanding on social studies subject matter.
How can we assist ELLs to be successful in grade level content without watering it down?
Here are some strategies I used in my third grade classroom to teach about the Wampanoag Native Americans to my students. These strategies help bring social studies to life for all students.
I found YouTube videos that helped the students visualize what life was like as a Wampanoag.
Of course the first challenge is a child's level of fluency in English. For the classroom, a student needs to be proficient in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English.
Word banks, personal glossaries, visual aids, drama, readers' theater, poetry, personal illustrations, music, partner reading and writing are some strategies I use to enhance an ELL's understanding on social studies subject matter.
How can we assist ELLs to be successful in grade level content without watering it down?
Here are some strategies I used in my third grade classroom to teach about the Wampanoag Native Americans to my students. These strategies help bring social studies to life for all students.
I found YouTube videos that helped the students visualize what life was like as a Wampanoag.
This video helps a student imagine what it would be like to join these girls as they explore their Wampanoag heritage. Students can then pretend to spend the day with them and write about their activities and responsibilities.
I really like this video on how to make a stone ax. It has no narration so there are a variety of writing activites that student can do to narrate the video clip themselves.
They could pretend to be a stone and talk about their journey from a lowly stone into a powerful ax.
Students could write instructions on how to make an ax.
ELLs with limited English proficiency could write the story or narration in their native language.
They could pretend to be a stone and talk about their journey from a lowly stone into a powerful ax.
Students could write instructions on how to make an ax.
ELLs with limited English proficiency could write the story or narration in their native language.