2. General Education Classroom Accommodations for ELLs That Work Elisabeth Bowman ESL Program Coordinator & Teacher Pontiac Middle School

3. Your Presenter Elisabeth Bowman BS Elementary Education (K-12 ESL), 2000 Ma Ed TESOL, 2008 Ma Curriculum & Instruction, 2013 Visited/taught in 17 different countries Currently: ESL Program Coordinator & Teacher at Pontiac Middle School

4. Slow Down & Wait Speed matters! Wait times How long does the average teacher wait?

5. Enunciate Ears become trained as well as tongues. Be an professional speaker.

6. Visualize Efni dagsins er veðrið. Put pictures everywhere! charts posters word walls PowerPoints / Smart Board files

7. Subtitles Improves listening comprehension. Helps with segmentation of words.

8. Repeat, Repeat… 10 times in context context clues text features More exposure for challenging words

9. Repeat, Repeat… Amelia Bedelia project Scholastic book

10. Kinesthetic More senses = greater retention What if we remove linguistically-based communication methods? Visuals + Body Language – Speech/Reading = Active learning

11. Kinesthetic If you take a circle and divide the circumference, the distance around the outside, by the diameter, the distance across the middle, you will get pi, or 3.14.

12. Kinesthetic Antonym Hunt Preposition Hunt She is not clean, she is dirty. I can go school without my mom.

13. Story Time Six times more! Older learners too! Intonation Fluency Pronunciation

14. Scaffold New Concept or Vocabulary Have age-appropriate knowledge, it just looks a little different

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