June 24, 2020
4:00 p.m. (PT)
Facilitating Secondary ELA English Learners’ Oral Language Development While Engaging in Distance Learning
Based on the premise that learning takes place through social interaction, participants of this webinar will consider the difficulties that distance learning presents for English Learners. Participants will receive tangible tools and processes for supporting oral interactions and language development of secondary English language arts students in distance learning environments that promote literacy development.
The following topics will be addressed in this session:
· Introduction to oral language development and its importance for English Learners
· Modeling of three ways to scaffold and support English Learners’ oral language development in distance learning
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/ELWebinarJune24
ELD Standards for grades 9-10 with corresponding CCELA Standards
ELD Standards for grades 11-12 with corresponding CCELA Standards
Description:
Podcast lessons from the best non-fiction storytellers.
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Largest library of listening comprehension quizzes for the classroom.
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1) Standards-Aligned Podcast Lessons
2) Auto-Scored Quizzes
3) Interactive Transcripts
Description: Strategies to Engage Students in Oral and Written Language. The following strategies contain a Purpose/How To Use/When to Use/Variation (different ways to use it):
1) Classroom Mingle
2) 4 Corners
3) Inside/Outside Circles
4) Whip Around
5) Accountable Discussion
6) 3-2-1
7) 5-3-1
https://visuwords.com/ - Gives visuals for words and word families. A visual dictionary and thesaurus
rewordify.com/ - allows students to highlight areas of text and get an "easier" way of reading it.
This is a video Nicole Wessel made showing us how to upload a video to YouTube so that you can get Spanish captions. This could be very useful for our ELD and EL students!
"Described and Captioned Media Program" offers video on a diverse set of topics, captioned, for free. https://dcmp.org/topics