Students whose first language is not English reflect on nature through readings, a visit to a green area, and bookmaking using the writing process and peer feedback.
Choose one or more of the resources on the following pages to explore for a few minutes. Use to the space at the bottom of the page to make brief notes to report back to the group.
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Table of Contents:
- Emergent Reader Series - Part 1: VC, CVC Words
- Part 2: CCVCC Words (Blends)
- Part 3: Compound Words
- Part 4: Multisyllabic Words
- Part 5: Words with Endings
- Reading Series One - Part 6: Foundational Skills Consolidation
- Reading Series Two - Part 7: Consonant Digraphs
- Part 8: Long Vowels with Silent e
- Part 9: Single Long Vowels & Patterns & Soft c and g
- Part 10: r - Controlled Vowels
- Reading Series Three - Part 11: Vowel Digraphs
- Part 12: Variant Vowel Digraphs
- Part 13: Diphthongs
- Part 14: Advanced Letter-Sound Correspondences
As students proceed through the lessons, more story groups are available for reading aloud. In the first story groups, the language is quite controlled. In later story groups, after students have mastered a large percentage of the phonics patterns of English, the language increasingly resembles the language of ordinary texts the student will see at school or in the library.
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Oral language provides a foundation for communication of ideas and intelligent conversation, and the development of other language skills. Before students achieve proficiency in reading and writing, oral language is one of the most important means of learning and of acquiring knowledge.
Things to consider when selecting words to teach:
•Teach words that are central to the concept students must learn.
•Teach only words students do not already know.
•Teach students to use context clues, when available.
•Teach only a few words at a time so meaning is retained.
•Relate new words to previously learned words.
•Provide multiple exposures to words.
Hopefully you can find some oral language activities in this handout that you can use in your classroom. Thank you for working to support the oral language abilities of the students on Saskatchewan’s Hutterite Colonies!
Oral language forms the basis of all reading and writing.
Here are some ideas of how to teach oral language skills in your classroom.
This site offers free online dictionary and text translation.
PROMT Online Translator does not offer as many languages as other translators. The list is limited to about 22 languages so far. But it does have other nice features. For instance, it makes use of automatic language detection and even choose a topic for the translation.
You can then copy, paste, check the spelling, or access a dictionary. There is also a virtual keyboard so if you are using the site on a tablet, for example, popping in your words or sentences is simple. PROMT also offers translation software that you can purchase and download. Interestingly, free online website translator is also available as an Apple or Android app.
Make connections across genres and across cultures to engage students in the study of literary voice and themes. Comprehension skills and vocabulary also come into play, especially for English language learners, as students read a novel and related poems, then write and perform original poems related to the novel.
Partnering with Newcomer Families
Strategies for working across language and cultural differences to make families feel at home in new schools
This lesson focuses on a family depicted in a work of art. Students practice using vocabulary related to people and families. Activities emphasize oral and written descriptions of the people portrayed in the work of art, using possessive adjectives. Students are challenged to infer what the relationships are between figures depicted and what individuals are doing, based on such clues as their pose.
This lesson focuses on people doing leisure activities as depicted in a work of art. Students practice using vocabulary related to people and leisure. Activities emphasize oral and written descriptions of the people portrayed in the work of art, using action verbs. Students are challenged to infer what leisure activities individuals are doing based on such clues as their pose.
This lesson focuses on people at work depicted in a work of art. Students practice using vocabulary related to people and work. Activities emphasize oral and written descriptions of the people portrayed in the work of art, using job-related vocabulary and adjectives to describe feelings. Students are challenged to infer what job individuals are doing, based on such clues as their pose.
Students will learn new vocabulary (directions, colours and letters) while using using an unplugged lesson of pixel programming.
This lesson focuses on an interior space depicted in a work of art. Students practice using vocabulary associated with a room and objects in the room. Activities in this lesson focus on writing descriptive sentences using some of the elements of art (color and texture) and adjectives.
This lesson focuses on different exterior spaces depicted in works of art. Students practice using vocabulary associated with the weather and how people react to the sea. Activities in this section teach students about some of the elements of art (color and line), adjectives, and two kinds of sentences (declarative and imperative).
This lesson focuses on exterior spaces depicted in works of art. Students practice using vocabulary associated with the weather and time of day. Activities in this section teach students about some of the elements of art (color and line) and about writing descriptions of the weather and time of day.
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Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab was founded by an English as a second language teacher (Randall). It has been designed to provide a narrow focus of easy-to-use activities. Due to the nature of the site, it is primarily geared toward developing cognitive skills. The site provides learners with opportunities to improve their listening skills. This site would be useful for teachers of English, from Grade 2 and up.