Article 5

Title:
Teaching English Language Learners: 43 Strategies for Successful K-8 Classrooms

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Summary:

The book, Teaching English Language Learners: 43 Strategies for Successful K-8 classrooms, discusses many strategies that teachers may apply in order to better support ELL students. The information provided in this book seems to be a great resource for classroom teachers who maybe struggling to meet the needs of English language learners. 

Each unit within this book is aligned with TESOL teacher and student standards and it also provides student performance indicators for many of the chapters. The units are designed to include a thorough overview of the objectives for that unity and what information the reader will gain after the completion of each particular unit.

Reflection:

This year is not only my first year working for a family literacy center it is also my first exposure to the concept of "home visits" In chapter 42 of Teaching English Language Learners: 43 Strategies for Successful K-8 classrooms, it discusses the theory/research underlying the home visit strategy.  I found it interesting in learning that providing home visits to children is not only beneficial in the fact that it provides extra one on one support for the child, but that it also creates opportunity for educators and families to work collaboratively as equal partners in their child's education. With this idea in mind it seems that the education is not only taken more seriously but that the families take pride in the fact that they are their child's first teacher.

References: 

Colombo, M. (2012). Teaching English language learners: 43 strategies for successful k-8 classrooms. Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications.