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 […]
Teaching Print Concepts to ELL students Before children ever get to school, they should be listening to books read to them. They enjoy hearing stories and it really helps them develop language critical to early literacy. English language learners may have heard stories read to them in their native language. This will help with their […]
How to Read Environmental Print Reading Environmental Print with ELL Students The most often overlooked way of learning to read is environmental print. Books are not the only way that students learn to read. Scores of early reading experiences happen even before school starts. Environmental print is familiar signs that a child recognizes in their […]
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, […]
Many Students are Visual learners – They need to see print Jack be Nimble, Jack be Quick, Jack Jump Over the Candlestick! What about the visual learner? And, how does listening to nursery rhymes and dancing help them? […]
