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Ms. Diaz's Classroom

  • PS 13 Clement C Moore
  • Elmhurst, NY
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Reading Well In ENL

Help me give my students Engaging Scholastic News Magazines to build vocabulary and background knowledge.
Ms. Diaz
PS 13 Clement C Moore•
Elmhurst, NY
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  • ELLs Need The Science Of Reading Too

    Funded Mar 1, 2024

    Using the Scholastic magazines that I received through this project, my students are able to practice English in fun and engaging ways. They love the videos that accompany each magazine and they serve as an excellent way to provide comprehensible input to learners that are just beginning their journey in English. Many of my students speak Spanish as their home language, and the platform offers many bilingual resources to support them and provide additional entry points for understanding.

    I look forward to using the phonics books during the next school year. These will be instrumental in helping students develop the foundational skills needed to be successful readers and writers of English. They fulfill a resource need that was missing for older students learning English for the first time.

    Many of my students have limited school experience in their first language. These resources help bridge the gap in that area and provide them with rich experiences that extend beyond the classroom and foster a love of learning.”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Diaz

    This classroom project was brought to life by Someone who cares about New York City and 9 other donors.

  • Professional Development- Research in Literacy Education

    Funded May 8, 2023

    Taking this course, titled New Research and Applications for Teaching Literacy, has given me new insight and renewed vigor for working with my ENL students. Recently, there has bee a push in the Department of Education, to use research based programs and methodologies, that follow the science of reading.

    This means that reading instruction is expected to be well rounded and support the five pillars of reading, which include, phonics, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency.

    My main takeaways from the course are that it is important to follow a speech, to print approach, ensuring that students have the oral capacity to speak and use conversationally, the words they are expected to read. It also follows that language ability is a strong predictor of reading comprehension. I also learned that spelling is a predictor of reading ability, but reading ability is not always a predictor of being a good speller. Finally, and contrary to what I had learned previously, sight words are processed in the brain in the same way as all words that are read with automaticity, by being read and processed one letter at a time, almost in an instant. They are not read as a whole word in the way an icon or symbol would be processed. This means additional focus must be paid to how sight words are spelled and how those spellings are pronounced.

    Thank you so much for supporting me and my students!!”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Diaz

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