ELL Strategy: Using Cognates in the Classroom

Did you know that more than 30-40% of words in English have a related word in Spanish? Teaching students to recognize cognates is a great strategy for supporting their comprehension and vocabulary development!

Barbed Wire Between Us
By: Mia Wenjen
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Barbed Wire Between Us is a powerful reverso poem that tells two deeply resonant stories across time. It begins with a Japanese American girl sent to an internment camp in Oklahoma during World War II.

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