Classroom Practices

Have you created stories with your ESL literacy learners using the Language Experience Approach (LEA)? Many ESL literacy practitioners use this technique to create personalized stories and paper-based books with their learners. Have you ever thought about turning these stories into digtial books?

A wiki is a webpage where you can share ideas, pictures, links, videos and other media.

Imagine having a class website where you could share information with your learners every week. Does this seem beyond your technical skills? Think again! A growing number of ELL instructors are creating classroom wikis (or webpages) to use with their learners. 

Are you looking for a way to keep your class projects, activities and ideas organized? Have you ever thought about creating an online professional portfolio?

Were you inspired by Kelly's Literacy Place blog? 

In today's blog post, Kelly will share some blogging advice for ESL literacy practitioners, as well as what has surprised her most about blogging. Be sure to read the previous blog post for more tips on blogging in the ESL literacy classroom.

Have you ever thought about creating a blog for your ESL literacy class but weren't sure how to do it?

In our recent online workshop on Using the ESL Literacy Readers a lot of great ideas and classroom activities were shared.

Here’s a personalized bingo game for a Phase I class shared by Val, the workshop facilitator.

Phase III learners are at the highest end of the ELL literacy spectrum.  By the time learners reach the end of Phase III, they can read quite comfortably and write quite fluently.  However, for most learners it is a long road to get to this place and in order for them to achieve success in the classroom, their unique needs and abilities must be recognized.

What is the profile of a Phase III learner?