5 Simple

Strategies

Remember
To

---Speak slowly, clearly, and
naturally. If your pace tends to
be fast, focus on ensuring that
each syllable is clear, rather than
trying to speak slowly. Try u sing
shorter sentences. Ask your
students to signal you if you are
speaking too quickly.

- Increase ELL students

English language
production and peer
interaction.

- Explicitly teach English

language vocabulary and
structure.

- Build on ELLs

----Supplement language in your

classes with pictures,
manipulative objects, kinesthetic
activities, and other ways of
teaching that use all of the
senses.

Background Knowledge
to Increase
Comprehension.

- Increase ELL Parent

----If possible, provide a written

outline of your talk. This will help
any student with language
problems prepare for class and
know where to place their
listening focus.
(Taking the time to incorporate
these strategies into your
teaching, you will help many
more students become
engaged, active participants)

Involvement.

SURVIVAL
GUIDE

- Increase Writing
Opportunities.

Promoting Education for

All

Colette Monod

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KEEP IN MIND

Stages of Second Language Acquisition

Stage I: Pre-Production
This is the silent period. These new learners will
listen attentively. Total Physical Response methods
will work best with students. ELL students at this
stage will need much repetition of English with
visuals.

Stage II: Early Production

This stage may last up to six months where
students will develop a receptive and active
vocabulary. Ask yes/no questions. Accept one or two
word responses. Give students the opportunity to
participate in some of the whole class activities. Use
pictures to support questions and build vocabulary

Stage III: Speech Emergence

Students can communicate with simple phrases
and sentences and will as simple questions that may
not be grammatically correct. Have students read
short modified texts in content area subjects. Have
them participate in duet, pair and choral reading.

Stage IV: Intermediate Fluency

At this stage students have a vocabulary of 6000

active words. They begin to use more complex
sentences when speaking and writing. Students feel
more comfortable to express their opinions and
share thoughts. Students will still be making writing
errors at this stage. Teachers must focus on
implementing various learning strategies.

Stage V: Advanced Fluency

It takes students 4-10 years to achieve cognitive
academic language proficiency in a second language.
At this stage most ELL students have been exited
from ELS and other support p rograms. Teachers
must still provide ELL students with continued
support in the classroom, especially in content areas
such as history/ social studies and in writing.