Think of one guided reading lesson you taught this week. What did you learn about your readers that will impact your next lesson?
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jane
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I was doing a guided reading lesson with my low group and I noticed one boy was really relying on the pictures to help him figure out the words. He is an ELL student who has only been speaking English for about 3 or 4 years, so this may be part of the reason why he struggles so much. I plan to work on more comprehension strategies as well as different strategies to use for accuracy next week.
ReplyDeleteIt is tricky working with ESL children b/c they come to us w/ various levels of english and understanding. Some come w/ great oral language communication but they don't understand "book" language. Most come with various backgrounds which is part of their schema and what experiences or knowledge they bring to understanding the text. If a child is VERY limited I like to pull out a book I have from when my own children were little - each page shows various scenes: a street scene, a park scene, a school, a home etc. I have them point to objects in the picture and tell me the english word. I use this to gain knowledge of what english words they can control. This helps me in choosing books for them. If I choose a book that has too many things they don't know, for example, an ocean book - is he going to know the names of the ocean animals or am I going to have to tell him on every page. I also use this knowledge to make books specifically for that child. Remind me, if you're interested, and I can show you what I mean at class. Another technique which you probably do - is try to anticipate which language in the book is he going to have trouble w/ - have him hear you say it and repeat it several times before he begins to read. For example, "Here we go" is probably not going to be something an ESL child hears said in his every day language but it appears in the early leveled books. jane
ReplyDeleteAfter teaching a guided lesson, I noticed that several of my students were having difficulty with the ending sounds of thier words. They were leaving off the "S" or the "ed" sounds. This has helped me target new lessons for teaching this.
ReplyDeleteGood job noticing their ending errors. ESL students often neglect the endings.. if it is an ESL student...mini lessons on endings will help. Also locating endings in the text they are going to read helps prepare them before they read to keep an eye on the end of the word. They can't self monitor the ending sounds because they don't have the endings in their "english" language so they don't hear the dissonance that we do. So the only strategy they have to use is visual information and we have to draw their attention to it. Good job, jane
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