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Andrea Spillett
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Hi everyone! I'm Andrea Spillett and this is my 14th year of teaching and it just keeps getting better and better. I teach kindergarten at a darling school in Southern California. My specialty is Second Language Acquisition. Teaching English language learners have been my focus for the last 9 years of my teaching career. I have also taught the CLAD(cross language academic development) course at California State University, Fullerton. It has been such a pleasure to teach new teachers how to work with students whose first language is not English. I hope that you and your students will find the ELD strategies that I am posting in the blog valuable and helpful. If you need any clarification on any blog that I have posted, please let me know!
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Using poetry with your English language learners is an effective strategy to increase language acquisition. The students are exposed to vocabulary, fluency, form, and function in a different way than just regular textbook reading.
Begin now and your English language learners can celebrate poetry month by having a poetry reading for their parents and classmates. Choose your class' or your favorite book of poems. You could also choose poems that are theme related. Such as my students were learning about seasons. Or have your students present original poetry. At my school, a 6th grade teacher has each student write a poem and then binds all the poems together. He gives the students the class' poetry collection as a gift at the end of the year. In the blog picture, the students have just presented the book, Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak to their parents. The book has a rhyming text about the months of the year. Students recited the poem of the month they were born. Simple costumes and a backdrop were used for the presentation. Look to The Scholastic Teacher Store for poems to use with your students. There are 226 resources to choose from!!!! Let us know how you integrate poetry with your English language learners! Message Edited by ajspillett on 04-05-2008 11:36 AM
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