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- Reading comprehension and English language learners
- Teaching reading comprehension and helping English language learners are the responsibility of every teacher, but they are also within the abilities of every teacher. These articles provide strategies for building content-area reading comprehension before, during, and after reading that can help English language learners — and all learners.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Understanding the curriculum
- A guide for new teachers (and teachers new to North Carolina).
- Format: bibliography/help
- About the English Language Development Standard Course of Study
- An introduction to the North Carolina curriculum for English language learners, including an explanation of the domains and proficiency levels of language acquisition.
- Format: article/help
- English language learners
- An introduction to LEARN NC's resources for teachers and administrators working with students with limited English proficiency.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Reading images: an introduction to visual literacy
- Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn.
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- Preparing English language learners for reading comprehension
- In Reading comprehension and English language learners, page 1
- Use KWL charts, circle maps and brainstorming webs, and concept maps to prepare English language learners, content-area learners, and all students for reading comprehension.
- By Ellen Douglas.
- Assessing reading comprehension with English language learners
- In Reading comprehension and English language learners, page 3
- Strategies such as flow charts can help you assess reading comprehension for English language learners, content-area learners, and all students.
- By Ellen Douglas.
- Guidelines for writing best practice articles
- In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 2.2
- Not every good teaching idea can be written as a lesson plan or buried within one. Some ideas are more general and apply throughout a curriculum area or even across curricula. If you find yourself explaining concepts, strategies, or practices, consider writing...
- Format: /help
- Story shackles: Linking students to written text
- Chain your students to reading a given text critically! Story Shackles is an imaginative and stimulating way for students to acquire the ability to retell events of a story or text, sequence the action or happenings in a story, or to simply summarize the plot, main ideas with supporting details, or general information of a story or text.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Kim Rector.
- Vowel, consonant, vowel your way to better reading
- This is a lesson for Secondary Special Education Teachers who teach exceptional children who are reading at the second grade level. Students will learn decoding patterns using vowels and consonants to divide words into syllables in order to sound out the word.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By Julie Wilson.
- A Crash Course in ESL: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for the course A Crash Course in ESL which provides a concise overview of strategies and best practices for administrators working with English language learners.
- Format: syllabus
- Submitting a lesson plan: Frequently asked questions
- In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 1.3
- Answers to frequently asked questions about submitting lesson plans for publication on the LEARN NC website.
- Format: article/help
- Real-world approaches to reading
- Techniques for providing children with the literacy-rich environment that is crucial to both reading and writing success.
- By Alta Allen.
- Introduction: Rethinking reports
- A little creativity can make research a rewarding learning experience for students and teachers alike.
- By David Walbert and Melissa Thibault.
- Reading comprehension: What works?
- Teach reading comprehension in the elementary grades with flexible strategies that connect reading to the real world, promote independence, and keep students engaged.
- By Mary Rogers Rose.
- Reading picture books
- Two strategies for helping children understand a story through illustrations.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Reading comprehension strategies for English language learners
- In Reading comprehension and English language learners, page 2
- Strategies like think-pair-share, think-alouds, and GIST can help English language learners, content-area learners, and all students make sense of text while they read.
- By Ellen Douglas.
- Guidelines for being a good online learner
- The elements that ensure success in an online learning environment are slightly different than those in a traditional classroom. These guidelines will help ensure your success as an online learner.
- Format: article/help
- Pliny and the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
- The purpose of this lesson is to use earth science concepts--from volcanology--to explain to students studying the letter of Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus how Mt. Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. Students will study and demonstrate mastery of the eruption and its historical impact through a webquest on Pompeii, reading of an articles with appropriate content-area reading support, participation in interactive lecture, writing of a journal entry about life in Pompeii at the time of the eruption, oral presentations on life in Pompeii, reviewing of the grammatical functions of all tenses of participles, and using a rubric to evaluate a video on Pompeii to be used for instruction.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Gregory King-Owen.
- Replica of a period newspaper: World literature
- Students will research a specific time in history in order to create the front page of a newspaper relevant to the selected time period.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Kim Dechant.
