Classroom Teacher's ESL Survival Kit #1

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CLAIRE, ELIZABETH
HAYNES, JUDIE
CLASSROOM TEACHER'S ESL SURVIVAL KIT

In this unique resource, you will find hundreds of insights, practical ideas, and hot tips to help you help your non-English speaking students survive in the mainstream. The easy-to-read text will demonstrate many ways you can include ESL students in your daily plans without abandoning your curriuclum or stealing time from your English-speaking students.

This book includes tips on:

• making advance preparation


• making a checklist for the newcomer's first days


• therapy for newcomers' culture shock


• strategies for two-way communication


• sensitizing your class to newcomers' frustrations


• ESL-preferred learning modes and corresponding teaching strategies


• what to include in a Language Learning Center in your classroom


• how to test, grade, and report to parents


• helpful district policies and practices

In addition you'll find more than 120 reproducible, clearly illustrated activity pages that provide months of stimulating language-learning tasks suitable for grades 2-8. These include:

• visual discrimination and letter-matching activities


• colouring, drawing, and cut-and-paste activities


• easy one-page stories with language-building activities

Other components of the book include:

• diagnostic and evaluative tools


• interactive tasks to stimulate socializing between ESL and mainstream students


• an illustrated Welcome Booklet orienting the newcomver to teacher talk, following directions, school practices, and classroom rules


• a no-time-wasted Textbook, Adapter that allows beginning students to work with grade-level textbooks


• math operations


• tracking sheets for student self-management