Classroom Teacher’s ESL Survival Kit # 1

A completely reproducible resource
provides insight, strategies, and materials for working with:

• beginning ESL students
  in a mainstream class,
  in grades 1 to 8.

It's also a unique ESL training manual for ESL teachers
who want to provide in-service courses for mainstream teachers.

Section One:

• Helps the classroom teacher understand the obstacles facing
  the not-yet-English speaking newcomers in her class,
  with suggestions for providing a fully-challenging academic day for them,
  even when they can't yet understand what's going on.
• It’s “the Reader's Digest version” of ESL insights,
  recognizing the limitations and pressures on a
  mainstream teacher's time and schedule.
• It's written in non-technical language,
  with the emphasis on practical ideas for mixed classes.

We explain:

• culture shock, its symptoms, effects, and cures
• the many stages that English language learners go through
  in learning to understand, read, write and speak a new language.

There are step-by-step instructions for

• tapping the energies of mainstream classmates,
• motivating and guiding peer instruction
• helping newcomers to make friends and
  maintain self-esteem during the long period of academic adjustment.

Section Two:

• reproducible diagnostic tests,
• student observation forms, and
• student "self-management" forms.

These give the classroom teacher tools for measuring and evaluating new arrivals,
a resource for producing anecdotal reports on report cards,
and data for parent conferences.

The "self-management" form is a motivating device
allowing the ESL student and the busy mainstream teacher to
see at a glance the quantity and quality of work the ESL student is accomplishing.

Section Three:

120 reproducible activities for entry-level and beginning ESL students in grades 2 to 8:

• meaningful activities
• requiring a minimum of explanation
• stimulating a maximum productive work

These activities can be done independently by the newcomer
and are easily checked by an English-speaking peer.

The 6 full-page pictures of common classroom scenes have many uses,
including conversation starters and vocabulary builders.

A 12-page reproducible "Welcome Booklet" helps new students understand
basic "survival English" in the mainstream classroom.

There are reproducible pages for:

• alphabet manipulatives
• cut-and-paste activities
• vocabulary activities for classrooms
  • art class
  • science class
  • music class
• animal riddles
• simple stories with extension activities
• get-acquainted activities
• math vocabulary activities
  • addition
  • subtraction
  • multiplication
  • division
  • telling time
• social studies activities

Illustrated by Joe Frazier

224 Pages.

ISBN: 978-0937630-40-2

Classroom Teacher’s ESL Survival Kit # 1
Price: $35.00

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