Monday, April 23, 2012

English Language Learners

I have recently figured out that to be an early childhood teacher takes ALOT of work.  Today I want to talk about kids in your classroom that does not speak english.  They truely have a hard time in the classroom!!  So lets talk today about ways we can help them in the classroom.  Some fun ideas to include that are crucial to them learning would be to have books, dress up clothes, and even other items that are from their culture.  One I know I am guilty of is having books in their language in the book center.  Also, a very important one to start to implement is having your alphabet that is on the wall in their language also.  Hard you say?  I say no.  It is very simple really.  You find words in the spanish language that starts with the same letter as the letter in English.  For example; for the letter E you would go with elephant because in spanish it is elefante.  At this time we have the spanish/english set for sale.  Are there other languages that anyone would need other than spanish?

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