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Educators must be creative and flexible in their approach to assessing and grading children with limited English proficiency.
Fortunately, you can now find lots of great children's books in Spanish that are perfect for shared or independent reading.
Differentiated instruction refers to the teaching approach in which learners have multiple options for learning. This approach requires a great deal of flexibility when designing the curriculum and presenting information to students.
The acronyms BICS and CALP refer to the length of time required by immigrant children to develop conversational skills in the target language and grade appropriate academic proficiency in that language.
Scaffolding is a method in which the teacher supports a student to work just beyond the level he could achieve on his own.
Students learn more effectively when they have familiarity with the content they are about to learn.
Thematic instruction is the development of instructional units based on a central theme (e.g., pyramids, quilts, etc.). All areas of the curricula are connected to the chosen theme.
Because of increased diversity in schools today, teachers can no longer act as independent entities but must collaborate across disciplines to reach all of the students in their classes.
Newcomer programs are programs designed for recent immigrants at the secondary school level who have little or no English proficiency, and limited or no formal education in their native countries.
Extensive research in the field of second language acquisition supports bilingual programs as effective models for second language acquisition.