This session demonstrates how to adapt an ESL curriculum to this medium. The media abounds with proverbs, folktale allusions, proving the need for ESOL students to become familiar with the source to attain fluency. Student notebooks of newspaper articles, cartoons, advertisements, etc. Presenters will offer suggestions for teaching activities and strategies for creating safe learning environments. Presenters discuss procedures for ensuring valid and reliable assessments.
Participants receive the rubric, a packet of anchor essays, and a scoring key.
In this session the presenters provide a rationale for using students' stories in the adult ESL classroom, demonstrate activities to elicit students' stories, and explore ways to exploit their stories for language practice. They also share ways of sharing students' stories within the classroom and beyond. Meeting Room 144 Beginning readers need more practice. In this workshop, teachers create beginning-level stories in groups, then reflect on criteria for accessible, enjoyable language and content. An extensive handout and a story Web site are provided.