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As regular readers know, I’ve been a longtime advocate of using a version of the “Preview, View, Review” instructional strategy for ELLs in content classes.
The idea is that the lesson is briefly previewed in the students’ home language, the lesson is then conducted in English, and then it’s briefly reviewed in the students’ home language.
Obviously, logistically it can be challenging to do this, especially in a large class and if the teacher doesn’t actually speak students’ home languages.
In those cases, an easy work around is to find online resources on the topic in the students’ languages and share them ahead of time (see The Best Multilingual & Bilingual Sites For Math, Social Studies, & Science). If your school subscribes to Brainpop, and if you have ELLs who speak Spanish, their Spanish-language videos are great examples of those kinds of resources.
ELL teacher Sable Schwab has now created an excellent short-and-sweet Preview, View, Review guide that offers a lot of other helpful ideas to teachers who don’t speak their students’ home languages, and she’s granted me permission to share it here. You can see it on Google Docs here or download it as Word Document here. It includes a reference or two to “Flex,” which is what her school calls extra support time.
I’m adding this info to The Best Advice To Content Teachers About Supporting English Language Learners.
Sable has over15 years of teaching experience in Spain, Illinois, China, Arizona, and Wisconsin and is currently a high school ELL teacher in Monroe, WI.
As regular readers know, I’ve been a longtime advocate of using a version of the “Preview, View, Review” instructional strategy for ELLs in content classes. The idea is that the lesson is briefly previewed in the students’ home language, the lesson is then conducted in English, and then it’s briefly reviewed in the students’ ESL Web Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
