Join Family 2 Family - Reaching out to immigrants

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This is a Level one-3rd grader that has been in America for one month. He is learning English through a Leveled D reading book. He is retelling a story putting the pictures from the story in sequential order. Great way to learn vocabulary and check for comprehension. Encourage ELLs to retell stories using story telling props! :-)

Connecting Families to Communities

(John Hopkin University) written by Laurel Conran
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/ppp/2009/nav/multi_index.asp

Choice Boards / Menus

A CHOICE BOARD offers students a way to make decisions about what they will do in order to meet class requirements. A choice board could be for a single lesson, a week-long lesson, or even a month-long period of study. In order to create a choice board:

• Identify the most important elements of a lesson or unit.
• Create a required assignment or project that reflects the minimum understanding you expect all students to achieve.
• Create negotiables which expand upon the minimum understands. These negotiables often require students to go beyond the basic levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
• Create a final optional section that requires students the opportunity for enrichment. The optional section often reflects activities that students can use for extra credit.

Choice Board # 1 Retelling a Story

Teachers from Iksan Korea use Eric Carle's, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to retell the events in the story using the illustrations they created. This activity builds language development, vocabulary, sequence of events, comprehension and builds self confidence learning English or any second language (Any story, poem, play or novel could be used according to the students' language abilities and/or their reading levels.)
(Iksan, Korea)

Choice Board #2 Making a Book

Students illustrated a book using the multiple intelligences.

Choiceboard #3 Writing a Song

During the Professional Development workshops in Iksan, the teachers wrote a song about their two favorite ESOL teachers, "Misty and Laurel:" There are two ESOL teachers......and it was a very fun class!