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I just finished student teaching in November and have been
working as a substitute teacher. I have been tutoring a
student that is in first grade. I have seem real
improvement with her. However, I showed her kindergarten
sight words and she had no idea.Instead of sounding them
out she will guess a word that is way off from what the
word is. Also her parents are from a different country and
speak to her in their native tongue. I tried to tell her
mom that she needs to speak to her in English as much as
possible to help her (the student even told me she gets
confused when her mom talks to her). But her mom still
talks to her in the native toungue. I know she's getting
confused with her own language as well as learning the
sounds of the English language. Also I don't understand
how she was able to pass kindergarten with the level she
is at when she does not know what she is expected to know
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laura beth /blockquote>

Hi Truly,
what I meant was that her mom only talks to her in their native
language. And I see nothing wrong with that at all! I just suggested
to her to speak to her in English as well since she knows it. That
is what i meant when I wrote that message. I did state that her mom
still talks to her in her n...See More
Apr 15, 2008
Truly /blockquote>

Hi Laura Beth,

I have not taken my qualifications for ESL, but I do recall hearing
that it takes a number of years to acquire a second language...maybe
something like 4 or 7 (think it's the later). Have you tried one of
the other chat boards? You probably could get some ideas there.

Other than ...See More
Apr 16, 2008
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I am an ESL teacher, I have worked with all grades, most cultures, all
levels of English acquisition.

A couple of things:
DO NOT tell a parent who is not a native English speaker to stop
speaking to their child in the home language. If the parent speaks
English, but not so well, this is worse for th...See More
Apr 29, 2008
Michelle /blockquote>

I had a language/ELL grad class and it is important at this age
that they speak only the native language at home. They need that
language as a strong base. Children this age do not have enough
language yet. Their "base" isn't strong yet. They are still
figuring out subject/verb agreement, plurals, etc. (Thin...See More
May 1, 2008
kathy/fl working with this little girl. :)

Start first with an assessment of what she knows. Does she know letter names? How about sounds? Focus on the short vowel sounds rasther than long.

You mentioned that she didn't know to sound out any of the words on the sight word list. My backround is many years of K, reading, and ELL so trust m...See More
Aug 28, 2008


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