Gonzalez cites, “They’re doing twice the job of everybody else in the
class, even though the result looks like half as much.” What do you
think? Absolutely these ELL students need to work twice as hard to understand the vocabulary and content. It would help if we could give them the assignments a few days earlier so they can understand what is being asked from them.
I have not had ELL students the past 10 years, but when I did I had pictures on a ring for students that would help them understand what would be happening next in the day. The pictures would be as simple as a book for reading, a pencil for writing and numbers for math. Once the student understand the daily routing I would add more pictures in their. That system did work well for first graders.
I have not had ELL students the past 10 years, but when I did I had pictures on a ring for students that would help them understand what would be happening next in the day. The pictures would be as simple as a book for reading, a pencil for writing and numbers for math. Once the student understand the daily routing I would add more pictures in their. That system did work well for first graders.