ELL Strategies

What ELL strategies will you implement in your classroom and what outcomes do you think it will have?

After the ELL strategies presentation, I felt like there were so many things I wanted to implement. There were 2 imparticular that really stuck out to me! The first one was the personal dictionaries. We spend a lot of time on vocabulary with the 7-step lesson plan and I fully believe that it works wonders. I would love to add to this and make a personal dictionary center for their writing center to write their own definition, create their own picture, and solidify this definition by creating sentences or a story with this word. They LOVE reading dictionaries and I think they would really love this. They take pride in their creations. :) Also, I want to focus on the positive reinforcement and making sure that it is so clear everytime I am reinforcing anything. I have made it a goal to even reinforce my students for being human, "Thank you for the big smile or thank you for sitting." I want to really focus on making every positive reinforcement count so that they can also notice the benefits that it has.