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Increase Listening Comprehension With This No Prep Activity

Increase Listening Comprehension With This No Prep Activity

February 23, 2019

This engaging active listening strategy: Listen, then Sketch, is a GLAD visualization strategy. It allows students an opportunity to practice their active listening skills while also supporting comprehension and oral language development. This strategy gives English language learners, struggling readers and passive readers a chance to improve these skills with a very low affective filter. Benefits differentiated low affective filter… Read More

Filed Under: English Language Arts, English Language Learners

Sentence Patterning Chart for Language Acquisition and Writing

Sentence Patterning Chart for Language Acquisition and Writing

February 10, 2019

The Sentence Patterning Chart is a language acquisition strategy that works wonders for all students, but especially for students who are English language learners or students who are struggling in writing. When developing sentence structure, this sentence patterning chart clearly conveys how a noun and verb work together in a sentence and how adding descriptive words, such as adjectives and… Read More

Filed Under: English Language Learners, Writing

Counting Collections: The Best Way to Build Number Sense in the Primary Grades

Counting Collections: The Best Way to Build Number Sense in the Primary Grades

October 13, 2018

I absolutely LOVE building number sense in the primary grades with Counting Collections. Counting Collections is a student-centered activity where students become aware of their mathematical thought processes and gain a strong sense of numerical relationships. It’s perfect for building number sense in preschool-2nd grade. Counting Collections can also be used as an intervention tool for 3rd-5th graders.  I began… Read More

Filed Under: English Language Learners, Mathematics

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