Teachers who work with English as a Second Language learners will find ESL/ESOL/ELL/EFL reading/writing skill-building children's books, stories, activities, ideas, strategies to help PreK-3, 4-8, and 9-12 students learn to read.
Becoming Bilingual
Acclaimed actress Rita Moreno hosts Becoming Bilingual, a 30-minute PBS program that examines the challenges of teaching children to read in a new language. The show visits six cities across the country to learn about the different ways schools are working to create bilingual readers. Becoming Bilingual is the seventh episode of the award-winning series Launching Young Readers.
Intro and open
Host Rita Moreno discusses her experience as an English language learner and challenges facing ELLs today.
First steps
Find out how Ms. Espinosa and her team teach a significant number of their young learners to listen, speak, and write in English.
New kid in town
Watch as the Arlington Public Schools Intake Center in Virginia helps place kids like 8 year-old Marlon, a new student from Honduras, in the right classroom.
Parents as partners
Meet principal Kathy Mayer who learned early on that one key to teaching young readers is getting parents involved.
Two languages at a time
Learn how Ms. Gonsalves gives equal time to both her native English and native Spanish speakers in her class.
Poet Francisco Alarcón
Bilingual Poet Francisco Alarcón visits a bilingual school, where he helps a group of third-grade students tap into their dreams and write poetry.
Beyond survival English
Visit Heritage Elementary, where part of the job is teaching kids one word at a time – first in their native Russian, and then in English.
A welcoming library
Librarian Laura Kleinmann explains the advantages of providing students access to books in their native language.
Close and credits
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