Re: help with newcomer

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On 11/09/09, Carmen wrote:
> I find it helpful to begin having a newcomer begin studying
the alphabet, school words, shapes and colors, family words,
body words, food and grocery words, and other common topics that
they will use every day. As they gain words in each section,
concentrate at first on nouns and verbs first, then progress to
using the words in simple sentences, emphasizing capitalization
and basic punctuation.

Have them do reading and writing based on words they are using.
Have them read aloud and correct all the words and simple
sentences they are writing with your assistance.

If the rest of your class is studying a different topic or
reading higher level material, pick out a vocabulary list from
what the other students are using (concrete nouns and verbs that
are easy to identify and understand). Then they can search
Yahoo images or Google images for pictures that you can print
off for them. Have them paste them into a "book" of blank
pages, label the pictures, and write simple sentences to make
captions for each picture. This way they are learning some
content material with the rest of the class.

I also use a set of "dice" type cubes called English on a Roll
to teach grammar. It is not an inexpensive set, but using dice
that you can change words with or change order of the words to
form sentences makes a great activity to reinforce grammar
concepts.

Hope that helps.

Carmen

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