When I read this article by Starr Sackstein in Education Week over coffee this morning, I was compelled to share. It was such a treat to read something more than a tweet, a meme, or a well known and oft shared quote. I was inspired all over again by characters in The Chamber of Secrets, The Great Gatsby, Read More…
Author: Jessica Loose
Bilingual Reading Comprehension Prompts are Here!
A third grade teacher recently asked me if I had any resources that would build reading comprehension with her ELLs. Around the same time, I began co-teaching an ESL class for the parents of our elementary school students and training volunteer tutors in our local family literacy outreach program. The parents, the teachers, and Read More…
ELD Lesson Planning – It doesn’t need to take HOURS!
Yes, you can combine language and content objectives on one page. You can even map out a full week! The challenge of teaching both language and content to ELLs is enormous. Your school has told you what to teach (content). Your school has given you the class lists so you know whom you will be Read More…
Keeping Quiet
I share this poem by Pablo Neruda in the names of the millions of people displaced, homeless, and in search of peace and security for their children. Keeping Quiet Now we will all count to twelve and we will all keep still. This one time upon the earth, let’s not speak any language, let’s stop for one second, Read More…
I finished testing, what now?
Starting a new school year is a frenetic whirlwind of endless preparation, meetings, lesson planning, room arranging – AND – English proficiency testing for the newly enrolled students. I’m so relieved when I have finished testing all the new kindergartners and newcomers that I want to dive right into teaching. I let the classroom teachers Read More…
Want to be smart? Learn a foreign language…
A recent post from Brain Blogger touted the advantages of being multilingual. Not only is it good for education and business in an interconnected world, it is good for your brain! A recent study shows that bilingualism can not only improve brain functioning but also keep age-related neural disorders like Alzheimer’s disease and dementia at Read More…