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ESL teachers, what is your best strategy or teaching tip for intermediate and advanced students?
I am the ESL coordinator for an intermediate school in Texas. We serve 5th and 6th graders. Most of our ESL students have reached an advanced level of proficiency, so they are mainstreamed in regular classes. I teach the beginners and some intermediate students. I like to send out strategies and tips to the mainstream teachers, usually about once a week, to help them with their advanced level students. Please tell me your tips, strategies, suggestions, etc. They could be content specific or just some general. Thank you so much!!! Also, if you'd like to be added to my email list, add you address here.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Here are some ideas I use in my own classroom:
Praise-Question-Polish (PQP)-PQP is a framework used to assess understanding and evaluate learning. It has three columns for student responses to specific lessons, texts, topics, or focus studies. The praise column is for positive comments, the question column is for recording ideas that are not clear, and the polish column is for suggested changes to improve understanding.
Literature Study-Literature discussion groups give students a chance to talk about their perceptions and interpretations of a selected text. After reading the selection and responding in a literature log, they meet to discuss ideas and insights. After discussion, group members decide how far they will read and what they will consider for the next discussion time. Different students serve as discussion leaders.
Text Sets- The text sets used in literature study circles are usually multiple copies of the same text to provide a focus for shared meaning. However, text sets may be a collection of different books on a related topic. Using sets of different texts encourages students to compare, contrast, and make connections in a reading discussion group. Related poetry may be included as text sets as well as different versions of particular fairy tales or collections of books by the same author.
Say Something-this a reading activity that invites conversation and discussion by partners or small groups of students. Each person receives a text for reading and responding. The participants decide cooperatively how far to read before stopping to talk about the author’s ideas. Someone is designated to speak first, or to say something related to the text. Each person listens and responds with comments, reactions, or questions. They may reread the text to clarify understanding or answer questions.
Partner Reading-Partner reading encourages the sharing of ideas. Sometimes partners take turns talking about their perceptions, questions, and insights. Partners of different ages and abilities work well together. The teacher may be a student’s partner to assess individual needs and strengths.
Reciprocal Teaching-Reciprocal teaching is an instructional activity that takes place in the form of a dialogue between teachers and students regarding segments of text. The dialogue is structured by the use of four strategies: summarizing, question generating, clarifying and predicting. The teacher and students take turns assuming the role of teacher in leading this dialogue.
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- eekLv 61 decade ago
As a teacher it has been my experience that all children are language learners.
All children in schools need to increase their vocabulary and be aware of the semantics of their language.
Teachers should not need to single out these students, who have been mainstreamed. Teachers need to develop lessons that will stress language development for all their students.
I think you will have more success if you approach teachers from the above perspective.
Source(s): Teacher with more than 40 years experience. - 1 decade ago
You can teach vocabulary and grammar in a content-based method. Let them read a story they can remember and let them remember new words and sentence structures by relating them to the story.
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