General Education Classroom Accommodations for ELLs That Work
Elisabeth Bowman ESL Program Coordinator & Teacher Pontiac
Middle School
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Your Presenter Elisabeth Bowman BS Elementary Education (K-12
ESL), 2000 Ma Ed TESOL, 2008 Ma Curriculum & Instruction, 2013
Visited/taught in 17 different countries Currently: ESL Program
Coordinator & Teacher at Pontiac Middle School
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Slow Down & Wait Speed matters! Wait times How long does
the average teacher wait?
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Enunciate Ears become trained as well as tongues. Be an
professional speaker.
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Visualize Efni dagsins er veri. Put pictures everywhere! charts
posters word walls PowerPoints / Smart Board files
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Subtitles Improves listening comprehension. Helps with
segmentation of words.
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Repeat, Repeat 10 times in context context clues text features
More exposure for challenging words
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Repeat, Repeat Amelia Bedelia project Scholastic book
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Kinesthetic More senses = greater retention What if we remove
linguistically-based communication methods? Visuals + Body Language
Speech/Reading = Active learning
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Kinesthetic If you take a circle and divide the circumference,
the distance around the outside, by the diameter, the distance
across the middle, you will get pi, or 3.14.
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Kinesthetic Antonym Hunt Preposition Hunt She is not clean, she
is dirty. I can go school without my mom.
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Story Time Six times more! Older learners too! Intonation
Fluency Pronunciation
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Scaffold New Concept or Vocabulary Have age-appropriate
knowledge, it just looks a little different
