BY: ANNALISA ENGSTROM

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Strategies to help ELL students understand grammar

Strategies to help ELL students understand grammar

Strategies to help ELL students understand grammar

INDEXGLAD

Sentence Patterning

Sentence Frame

Expert Groups/ Sentence detectives

Word of the day- multiple languages

Mimic writing

Choice Prompts/ Writing Derby

Sensory Field-trip

GLADAmazing teaching strategies for teaching ELL

students!

Personal favorites: Inquiry Charts, Big Books, Chants, Scientist Awards, Compare and Contrast, Response Journals, Found poetry, and Sentence Pattern.

There is a plethora of resources and opportunities for application

Sentence PatternOne of the strategies used for GLAD

Teaches All parts of speech to a tune

When applied the learning is immediate- it will stick in your students minds

Sentence FramesMany, many options...

One of my favorite frames includes this form for a summary sentence:

Someone/wanted/but/so

Example: The big bad wolf wanted to eat one of the three little pigs, but he was unsuccessful in his attempts to blow down a house so he climbed down a chimney.

Expert TeachersStudents set personal goals- they decide to become experts at an aspect of a lesson (i.e. strong ending, internal commas, hooks, paragraphs, activity directions...Whenever a student is absent or confused ask for an expert teacher. Students love to help their peers and will be attentive to teacher directions, so that they may get the chance to be the Expert.

- Teach one vocabulary word daily- Create a hand action to match and use it as a transition cue

- Encourage multi-lingual students to teach the word in their first language and teach the class

- Post the words around the room and refer to often (Build a part of speech word wall

- Post the words around the room and refer to often (Build a part of speech word wall

- Post the words around the room and refer to often (Build a part of speech word wall

- Post the words around the room and refer to often (Build a part of speech word wall

Word of the Day

Mimic Writing

Students read multiple picture books

Notice author craft

Students choose a book or author to mimic

Students write their own story version

Celebrate the accomplishment

Choice Prompts/ Writing Derby

Allow students to choose between prompts for quick writes

Students generate writing for 5 minutes, then count words, and graph their progress (fast visual for student and teacher)

This can be extended later to any focus in writing (i.e. have students count mind-movie sentences or vivid verbs or helping verbs)

It is simple; students with a reluctance for writing will gladly play this basic “game.”

Sensory Field Sensory Field TripTrip

When teaching the five senses, first When teaching the five senses, first provide understanding with visual cueing provide understanding with visual cueing

cards and real world examples- fresh cards and real world examples- fresh oranges, bird calls, a fan...oranges, bird calls, a fan...

Once students have a grasp, take them on Once students have a grasp, take them on a field trip of the school- the corridors, the a field trip of the school- the corridors, the outside field, a different classroom- and outside field, a different classroom- and have them classify the different senses. have them classify the different senses.

Allow students only a few minutes in each Allow students only a few minutes in each location. They will be focused and intent location. They will be focused and intent

on identifying as many different senses as on identifying as many different senses as they can.they can.

This can then be expanded on with a This can then be expanded on with a poetry lesson.poetry lesson.

Sites to look into...• Bilingual Site of books and authors: http://www.colorincolorado.org/read

• Scholastic- so many strands!

• Google ESOL teaching strategies

• Mrs. P (online oral story telling)

• Enchanted Learning

• Spelling City

• A to Z