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Ideas to Acquire Fine Motor Skills

English learners need Fine Motor Skills for Writing  Create Opportunities to Develop Fine Motor Skills After your ELL students have developed gross-motor skills they are ready to work on fine motor skills. They need lots of opportunities to use their hands and fingers. The more often they grip a marker, pencil, or scissors, the better. Merging […]

Benefits of Storytelling

Storytelling with your ELL Student Beginning Storytelling Storytelling is an age-old experience handed down through generations. It is a great way to introduce beginning reading. In the beginning, storytelling does not have to include books.  At first, just tell stories that you have heard when you were a child.   Remember not to just summarize the event, […]