On 6/23/09, lynne/ca wrote:
> On 6/23/09, wall1057 wrote:
>> I teach ESL students in grades K - 5. ALL of them can speak
>> English. The curriculum that the school provides is for
>> students learning to speak English and is not nearly enough
>> to last a week. Not only that, I have 10 students in a
>> class with only 2 books. Any suggestions? What do you do
>> during your 45 mins. of instuction. How do you break it
>> down? I am spending every spare minute trying to find stuff
>> to do for all these levels. There has to be a better way!
>> Thanks for your help!
>
> Have you used any assessments to determine their strengths
> and weaknesses? Identify the areas that are holding them
> back - hopefully you will find commonalities and can group
> students according to need. Focus on their weak areas. If
> they speak English fairly well, the weak areas that you focus
> on might be writing skills, academic vocabulary taken from
> content area lessons, etc. Something is keeping them in the
> ESL program... find out what it is and work on that with
> them. (If your students have NO weak areas to focus on, they
> should be exited from ESL.)
> If you can identify their needs more specifically, you might
> get more specific suggestions from posters here regarding
> curriculum or activities.

I had somewhat the same problem but mine was as a long term
substitute teacher at a high school. What I did was set it up
where the first 15 minutes of each class they broke up into
teams and used spanish/english flash cards and drilled each
other. After that we went to different level worksheets.
What I would like is suggestions or sources for better
worksheets.

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