ESOL Students Need Materials!!!
Funded Apr 16, 2012Thank you so much for the materials that you have donated to my ESL classroom. My students already love them...and we've only used them each one time! It's so hard to keep students interested in letter sounds and letter building with only worksheets...these materials help them to get active with their own learning!
First, the teaching tiles are amazing! I can set up all six teaching tile trays for my six kindergarteners, with around 10 letters each tray. Then I ask them to make words for me: bat, cat, mat, etc. If they can't, I can tell them what words to make: "spell cat for me". They love it!
The alphabet avalanche is similar to the teaching tiles, but these letters can be used with any class, including my older kids. I just spill them out onto the table and ask them to make a sentence for me. They get so excited to be working with their hands and using their brains at the same time!
Finally, the learning wraps are amazing for my ESL newcomers! They can look at the pictures and match them with the words...and then turn them over and see if they are right. My two Bulgarian newcomers LOVE to use the wraps.
Donors, thank you SO much for all of these great resources, which will be used in my classroom every day with different grades and groups of students. I greatly appreciate them, as do my students!”
With gratitude,
Mr. P.