Classroom Teacher's ESL Survival Kit #1

This jam-packed resource will be a lifesaver for the classroom teacher who needs insight, strategies, and materials to integrate beginning ESL students into the mainstream class. It can be used as a comprehensive training manual for in-service courses. Section One: 78 pages of practical suggestions help the classroom teacher provide a fully challenging academic day for English language learners who are immersed in a mainstream class. Explains culture shock and the various challenges ESL students face in learning to understand, read, write, and speak a new language. Tips for tapping the energy of mainstream classmates, guiding peer instruction and helping newcomers make friends and maintain self-esteem during the long period of adjustment. Section Two: Reproducible teacher tools include diagnostic tests, student observation forms, and student self-management forms. These give the classroom teacher shortcuts for measuring and evaluating the abilities of new arrivals. They also provide a resource for teachers' anecdotal comments on report cards and help organize data for parent conferences. Section Three: 120 reproducible activities for entry-level and beginning English language learners in grades K to 6. These activities can be done independently by the newcomer and are easily checked by an English-speaking peer. Includes a 12-page "Welcome Booklet" to help new students understand basic survival English in the mainstream classroom. Reproducible pages for: Cut-and-paste activities; alphabet manipulatives; vocabulary activities for art class, science class, and music class; animal riddles; simple Aesop's fables with extension activities; get-acquainted activities; math vocabulary activities, and social studies activities.