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20 May 2024
If you need a laugh...take a look at my transitioning level, kindergartener ELL's writing during free choice play time 🤣The power of explicit systematic phonics instruction that encompasses decoding & encoding! Of all the options during play time, he chooses to write ❤️
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23 Mar 2024
Something that all Ts need to keep in mind: "understand that people have risked their lives to come to the US in order to give their children a quality education as they struggle against barriers that most of us cannot imagine."
#TESOL #ESL #ELL #MLL
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23 Mar 2024
Have your students submitted their logo submissions for @NYSTESOL 's Student Logo Contest? A great opportunity to showcase ELL/MLL art, with a great cash prize too!
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23 Mar 2024
See the 🧵
21 Mar 2024
🧵Here is what happened. This shows the percentage of students at or above winter (mid-year) benchmark in each grade level since the work began. Same teachers, different cohorts of kids.
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22 Mar 2024
Teacher preparation programs need to evolve so that candidates enter the teaching field prepared with knowledge and practices to effectively teach reading to ALL students.
California should follow Mississippi’s lead on reading instruction desertsun.com/story/opinion/… via @mydesert
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Kelly A. Aldinger retweeted
19 Mar 2024
I am teaching at a school which has implemented high quality explicit instruction K-6. My Year 2 class is on average higher than previous 3-6 classes. This is not ‘because of SES’. This is not ‘because kids are just different’. It is because they have been carefully, 1/
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21 Mar 2024
Succinctly stated
21 Mar 2024
"The output of the word identification system, the word's pronunciation and meaning features, is the input to the comprehension system." Perfetti & Helder
A neat summary of why decoding is key to text comprehension.
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21 Mar 2024
Nonstop From Classroom to Classroom, an ESOL Teacher's Day - what an apt summary of an #ESOL teacher's day edweek.org/teaching-learning…
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20 Mar 2024
Where morphology, semantics, & phonetics intersect
"Teaching Ss to quickly identify &“peel off” prefixes & suffixes within words can help students begin to recognize both pronunciation & meaning of larger chunks as they encounter more unfamiliar words."
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Kelly A. Aldinger retweeted
14 Mar 2024
One day, you will have a job that you enjoy doing AND it will be a place where you are appreciated for the value you bring. Keep going. 🖤
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16 Mar 2024
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13 Mar 2024
I made some earrings for frustrated professors. #readthesyllabus #AcademicTwitter @ReadTheSyllabus
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“Language is tied to identity. You don't have to give up your identity of who you are in order to learn English,” says newcomers teacher Efraín Tovar. See how this educator supports newcomer students’ English proficiency—along with their sense of belonging and identity.
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Kelly A. Aldinger retweeted
10 Mar 2024
As #Ramadan begins, these tips can help school communities support students who are observing.
ALT Tips to Support Students Observing Ramadan: Avoid class events focused on food; use Ramadan to teach about Islam.
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Kelly A. Aldinger retweeted
10 Mar 2024
School should be a place that kids look forward to going. Adults too.
It begins and ends with leadership.
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9 Mar 2024
Just finished...bawled my eyes out. This should be required reading in schools to foster a more global perspective on both historic modern world conflict.
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