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Supporting Multilingual Learners as Growing Readers in More Than One Language

10/15/2022

 
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I have fond memories of cuddling up next to my tata (Serbian for daddy) before bedtime and listening anxiously as he told stories he remembered or even ones he made up. As an immigrant family from the former Yugoslavia, we brought little with us when we came to America. Books were heavy and did not make the journey. Storytelling, however, was a cherished time in our home. My favorite story was Hansel and Gretel.

**a version of this blog post was first published on BookBuzz.


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How to Lose a Reader (13 Ways)

5/21/2022

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  1. Don't give students time for free reading in class. 
  2. Assign all reading and offer students no choices in their reading selections. 
  3. Be sure to call on students one at a time to read aloud in front of their peers, for example, popcorn reading or round-robin reading.
  4.  Assign reading logs as homework and require students to fill them out regularly for a grade.
  5. Make reading worksheets a major practice of instruction and grading. 
  6. Only let students read books at their reading levels. 
  7. Discourage reading in languages other than English.
  8. Don't consider culturally inclusive book selections on your bookshelf and keep a blind eye to what students are reading. 
  9. Don’t let students abandon books even if they aren’t connecting with them. 
  10.  Avoid making space for students to talk or write about their reading.
  11. Don’t meet students where they are as readers. 
  12. Pull multilingual learners out of class during reading.
  13.  Don't model reading by reading aloud to students or sharing your passion for reading. 
This brief post lists 13 instructional practices that reduce the love and motivation for reading in students and then 13 ways to inspire and motivate them. ​
In contrast, here are 13 ways to help students find love, joy, and excitement in reading. 


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All My Reading Related Posts in One Place

2/27/2021

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Reading & Writing with ELs Bookies #ReadingWritingELs
A lot of the work I do centers around literacy and ELs. The goal of this post is to help you quickly & easily find what you're looking for as a reading teacher of ELs.  

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Literacy Instruction & English Learners: series, part 1 of…

11/11/2018

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The next few posts will be related to one another regarding the topic of literacy instruction as it pertains to English learners. The focus will be specifically on supporting English learners in English Language Arts classrooms and accommodating instruction and materials to promote growth and success. 

But let's begin by setting the foundation for our work with some common definitions or terms. ​

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CoTeaching and the Components of Literacy

6/16/2018

 
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As a co-teacher, you might wonder how co-teaching fits in with the components of  literacy. Or you might be a main stream (general education) teacher that has a co-teacher and you wonder how to best utilize two teachers in the room during reading and writing instruction. Many ESL teachers co-teach in classrooms during reading and writing blocks.  It's important to know which co-teaching approaches fit best with each component of literacy instruction.
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Conferring with ELLs

8/26/2017

 
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A huge part of balanced literacy and a workshop setting is conferring with students. Conferring allows for maximum differentiation to meet specific instructional needs for students. But when we serve students who are also learning English, there is a need to accommodate the way we confer. After years of conferring with ELLs and tons of reading in the field, here are my tips for conferring with ELLs. 

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What effective readers and mathematicians have in common and how we can capitalize on that!

8/12/2017

 
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By identifying what effective readers and effective mathematicians do, we can use the strengths from one content area to capitalize on the other. 
After attending the Title III Symposium in Austin this July, I began to reflect on one session I saw in particular. The presenter was Alex Kajitani, California Teacher of the Year, and his session  was titled, How to Connect  Math and Literacy: Get Students Reading, Writing, and Speaking in Math Class. Now, I don't claim to be an expert in the area of math, but I know a thing or two about students, reading, writing, and language development. I was immediately taken in because he connected my knowledge of those things with math (something more new to me).

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