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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
I am a Spanish Bilingual First Grade teacher in a low income inner-city school. I am also a trainer for a method for teaching English language development called a Focused Approach to Frontloading English Language Instruction. The program is part of the California Reading and Literacy Project training institutes.
The idea behind a Focused Approach... is that students need opportunities to practice academic English and they need this language frontloaded prior to a lesson in English. Most ELD programs offer language instruction that is separate from the curriculum because it is focused on systematic grammar, vocabulary, and language development. However ELD does not provide students with the skills to understand the curriculum and that is where a Focused Approach to Frontloading English Language Instruction comes in. ELD is about English.
A Focused Approach to Frontloading English Language Instruction is about providing students with the language to understand and express their knowledge with the curriculum in mind so that they can access the knowledge taught in English. For example, if we are reading a text that requires prediction students are taught what prediction means with visuals and familiar objects first. This may mean introducing the concept first in Spanish and then reintroducing it in English. One tool I use to teach prediction is the magic box. Students guess what's inside and then I reveal the object. We verify if their prediction is correct or not. We may then use sequence cards to make predictions. Next the students learn vocabulary that relates to the specific text and a language structure such as "I predict that_____" and " The ____ might___."
In teaching comprehension of text in English I need to help students develop their vocabulary and their understanding of comprehension skills such as cause and effect, making predictions, and sequencing.
Working with limited English speakers means using realia, pictures, and other manipulatives to help them understand complicated concepts without translating into Spanish.
I addition I would like materials to help improve ELD instruction through the study of word structure and linguistic differences between Spanish and English. A Focused Approach provides such support through frontloading for word work. Frontloading is different then ELD because it uses the knowledge that students already posses in their native language or the confusions that they currently face to teach the specific structures of English phonics and grammar. For example, many Spanish speaking students confuse the "y" and "j" sounds and frontloading would help them make the distinction before a spelling lesson with y words.
I would like the following materials to help me teach in English.
1. Pictures
2. Manipulatives
3. Materials for studying morphology
Thank you in advanced.
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