Effective Teaching Strategies Effective Teaching Strategies for for

English Language LearnersEnglish Language Learners

Three Different PerspectivesThree Different Perspectives

bybyJennifer WheelerJennifer Wheeler

Teachers PerspectivesTeachers Perspectives

Gestures and visual cuesGestures and visual cues Repetition and opportunities for Repetition and opportunities for

practicing skills and using new practicing skills and using new language oftenlanguage often

Use of objects, real props, and Use of objects, real props, and hands-on materialshands-on materials

Multi-sensory approaches Multi-sensory approaches

Students PerspectivesStudents Perspectives

Most Important Most Important Instructional StrategiesInstructional Strategies

Direct teaching and learning Direct teaching and learning of vocabulary through of vocabulary through listening, seeing, reading, and listening, seeing, reading, and writing in short time segments writing in short time segments

Specific informal assessments Specific informal assessments based on curriculum based on curriculum (Curriculum-Based Probe) (Curriculum-Based Probe)

Fluency building (high Fluency building (high frequency words) frequency words)

Tactile vocabulary Tactile vocabulary development steps development steps

Combining kinesthetic and Combining kinesthetic and phonemic awareness phonemic awareness

Least Important Least Important Instructional StrategiesInstructional Strategies

Using a book on tape as Using a book on tape as support support

Acting out a story Acting out a story Oral sharing and discussion on Oral sharing and discussion on

a topic related to the reading a topic related to the reading Predicting what is going to Predicting what is going to

happen in the story based on happen in the story based on the title, headline, illustration, the title, headline, illustration, or initial sentence or paragraph or initial sentence or paragraph

Visualization of a story or Visualization of a story or drawing a scene of a storydrawing a scene of a story

International PerspectivesInternational Perspectives

Demonstration Demonstration Choral Drill Choral Drill Look and Say Look and Say Pictorial and Verbal Illustration Pictorial and Verbal Illustration Association Association Questioning Questioning Narration or Storytelling Narration or Storytelling Read and Say Read and Say

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