What are some challenges ELL students face Think

What are some challenges ELL students face? Think of your content area ELL challenge!

Teacher Skeletal Outline Samples

Help them take notes and build background! v Videos v __________(students fill out teacher prepared outline while watching a video, listening to the teachers lecture, reading from the book or internet…) v Pretest for ___________ and build from that! v ______ Information v Have students look through their readings (skim for vocabulary) allow to ask questions v Write your _______ on the board v _______ for student reflection v Write ________ to help them get the idea of what the lesson will cover. v Help them become ________. ü Guided Questions- questions for them to check comprehension…stop and think about what they have read.

Be Aware of the Challenges ESL students have in Math class v _________ varies from culture to culture v use of _______ and comma vary from culture to culture v Students have no experience with our _________, It is an abstract to them. v Math is not _______ in many cultures. So students may not know a lot about geometry, for example. v Many students have never seen or worked with _________. They may not take a lesson using manipulatives seriously.

Continue… v Students learn math by __________. v Math curricula in their countries may be primarily calculation. v _______ may not be introduced until much later. v ______, rounding, and ______ are not often taught as early in other cultures. v Mathematical terms do not always _____ well. v Mental math may be the ____. Students may not show work in ___________, _______ and division or they may show work in a different way,

Be Aware of the Challenges ESL students have in Science class! v Lack of background knowledge in science. Our _______ is different from what they are used to. v Drawing conclusions may be ______ for ELLs. Students may not have been trained to make ______. v Vocabulary! (There a special set of terms for the student to learn. ) Even simple words that the student may know, could have ___________ in science. v Material may be covered ________ v Directions are often ______ and difficult. v Too many _____ explained on each page of a science text.

Continue… v Cooperative learning may not fit in with students experiences in learning. v Visuals may be ______and ______ to understand. v Sentence structure is _____ and the passive voice is used in textbooks. v ELLs are not used to ______ or equipment v Students lack background in _____ v There is no standard form of delivery of information

Be aware of the challenges ELL students have in Social Studies Class. v Use of higher level thinking skills for reading and writing. v Lack of familiarity with _____, government processes, and vocabulary. v Social Studies text contains _______, passive voice, and extensive use of pronouns. v ELLs may not be used to expressing their personal opinions. v Concepts which do no exist in all cultures are difficult. This includes privacy, .

Continue… v democratic processes, _______ of citizens, free will. v No concept of movement within the structure of a society. v ELLs are seldom asked to contribute an _______ that reflects conditions in other countries. v Use in our schools of _____ teaching vs. learning history by _____ or _____. ” v Difficulty with understanding what is said by the teacher and being able to _________. v Amount of text covered and the ELLs’ inability to tell what is important in the text and what is not important

Be aware of the challenges ELL students have in English class. v an abundance of idioms and figurative language in English texts v density of _____ vocabulary v use of ______ and synonyms v grammar usage - “exceptions to the rules” v word order, sentence structure and syntax v difficult text structure ( a topic sentence, supporting details and conclusion) v unfamiliar with ______ and denotative meanings of words v use of regional U. S. dialects v fear of participation and interaction with mainstream students‚

Continue… v literary terms for ___________ are not understood v unfamiliarity with drawing conclusions, analyzing characters and predicting outcomes v imagery and _______ in text are difficult v ELLs may not have practice in expressing opinions about text. v use of regional U. S. _____ v fear of ______ and interaction with mainstream students‚ v story themes and endings can be inexplicable v literary terms for story development are not understood v unfamiliarity with ____________, analyzing characters and predicting outcomes v imagery and symbolism in text are difficult