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If you are encountering ESOL students for the first time and looking for resources, we first want you to know that you are great!
We appreciate you taking the time to learn and help.
We want you to have a couple of easy things to do to make your class a bit more ESOL friendly:
Over the years, I have been asked how to start teaching ESOL students many times by many teachers. Thomas Johnston had an excellent answer to this question that I turned into a slide deck: https://drive.google.com/file/d/170Y9LXHxcvW-M8tC08Vic-0YMQlXRTSd/view?usp=sharing
There are three easy modifications you can make to make class easier for ESOL students:
Sentence Stems and Forms
I have a stems and frames module here: https://sites.google.com/view/mlltoolbox/sentence-stemsframes
Reduce distractors on Multiple Choice Tests (4 options to 3)
Make sure all instructions are in writing, simple, and bulleted.
Maher gave a presentation on ESOL friendly instructions here: https://sites.google.com/view/mlltoolbox/reduce-the-linguistic-load/esol-friendly-instructions
Your goal is to reduce the linguistic load. Learn more about that here: https://sites.google.com/view/mlltoolbox/reduce-the-linguistic-load
I made a website specifically to help teachers with ESOL students here: https://sites.google.com/view/mlltoolbox/home
After you have done those things, we'll talk about what you can do next. Email jason.mccoy@slps.org
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