ENL Newsletter 2017
October Introduction ENL Newsletter
Mrs. Kelly
MARCH 15TH PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES ROOM 213 1:00-2:30 AND 5:00-7:30 pm YOU MAY MEET WITH ME BEFORE OR AFTER YOUR CHILD'S TEACHER
Reminders
Some Listening Skills
Some Speaking Skills
Some Writing Skills
Mrs. Kelly
MARCH 15TH PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES ROOM 213 1:00-2:30 AND 5:00-7:30 pm YOU MAY MEET WITH ME BEFORE OR AFTER YOUR CHILD'S TEACHER
Reminders
- Kindly remember to fill out the parent contact form
- Kindly remember to sign the photography permission slip
- I am in room 213 for Parent-Teacher Conferences on November 16th from 1:00-2:30 pm
Some Listening Skills
- Face (look at) the speaker –student or teacher
- Maintain (keep) eye contact
- Pay attention
- Listen to the words and try to create a picture in your mind about what the speaker is saying
Some Speaking Skills
- Respond to questions/answer questions from another student or from the teacher
- Turn and talk with a partner about the lesson
- Have a conversation –I agree/I disagree because… I know this because…
- Task cards: Good to go, Getting There, All Done, I'm Stuck/Need Help (These cards are helpful for assessments, lessons, and activities).
- Identify letters and sounds
- Decode/read words and sentences
- Comprehend/understand what you are reading
- Use pictures to help you understand the story
- Identify high frequency words/basic sight words
- Vocabulary-understand and use in context of the book or reading passage; synonyms-words that mean the same, definitions of vocabulary words
- Make text-to-self connections
- Many skills and strategies will be taught throughout the year
Some Writing Skills
- Write letters and words, write complete sentences
- Capital letters at the beginning of each sentence, punctuation at the end of each sentence
- Proper spacing between words
- Paragraphs depending on grade level
- Write a narrative: use sequence and transitional words such as First, Next, Then, In addition, Finally
- There are many writing skills and strategies
- Writing process-pre-writing, draft, revise, edit, publish