Is Your Classroom ELL-Friendly?
…supports the concept being presented. 3.Do you read aloud to your students? As you read aloud, you will model fluency and support comprehension as you “think aloud” about the story’s…
…supports the concept being presented. 3.Do you read aloud to your students? As you read aloud, you will model fluency and support comprehension as you “think aloud” about the story’s…
…is academically. It reduces discipline problems. It makes your work more satisfying. And more than anything, it makes a difference to your students. Having the support of parents is just…
…crashes to the table. At first, students feel overwhelmed and unsure of what to do, but they are able to quickly figure things out with the support of their classmates….
…about math. Instead, differentiate the assignment by giving those students something easier or deferring the assignment until after they receive more help at school. Consider the level of parent support…
…number (i.e. “Student 23”) just in case. 5. Conference Sign-ups – This year I sent home paper forms for parents to sign up for a parent-teacher conference slot. They had…
…with the new way to use place value to multiply two-digit numbers using manipulatives. First the teacher should provide a hands-on practice time so that students begin to get comfortable…
…backpacks and noticed when people “cringed”. They loved it! 2. Model classroom discourse! Hearing and using rich language serves a number of purposes–from modeling sophisticated language to showing that…
…ten model. The next step was to take these items and compare them. We ordered them from least to greatest then placed them on a giant number line. We also…
…Have them write their name/number on the back. As the day progresses, those students who do not make good choices, lose a ticket. At the end of the day, collect…
…not as fluent. Then I showed them how to time each other for one minute as they read aloud, and how to help each other calculate the average number of…
…way too much to do and never enough time to do it all. Piles of papers stack up everywhere, with no time to file anything away properly, and the number…
…keeping the numbers the same but placing the parentheses around different pairs of numbers like this: (5 + 3) x 2 = ? and 5 + (3 x 2) =…
