Last group PRESENTATIONS 🙌🏽🔥🎉 Newcomers spent SEVERAL days analyzing a graphic novel of choice — all stories are centered on the immigrant story — #MovingStories *See previous posts for the work that led to this poster. Congratulations to all—great job! #WebLife #TeachingNewcomers #TeachingESL #GraphicNovels #CompellingText

Wonderful GRAPHIC NOVEL character wrap-up 🤩 Newcomers spent a few days analyzing character traits & character development— In groups, they decided on how to show the class what they’ve learned. The poster includes: ✔️ main character ✔️ Thoughts ✔️ Quotes ✔️ Character development Presentations are TOMORROW! 🔥 #MovingStories #TellYourStory #GraphicNovels #compellingText @reimaginemigrat

Graphic Novel Project 🤗 Today, newcomers began working in groups analyzing a graphic novel of CHOICE! End project: poster with character analysis & how it developed over the novel Today, we used a graphic organizer to study the characters’ words, actions, thoughts, and feelings IN THE BEGINNING of the novel to use as clues to determine character traits. Tomorrow we will analyze middle & end of novel! Once students are able to identify character traits, they will be able to look at how the character grows and develops throughout the novel. End project due Friday!!! 🙌🏽📝 #Weblife #MovingStories #StoriesMatter #CompellingText #GraphicNovels @reimaginemigrat

Would you walk in our shoes?!? 👞 Our newcomers’ shoes are some big shoes to fill. Several of my students had a hard time asking you to walk in their shoes. They would never wish their afflictions on anyone. But, these are our realities— Our stories — our experiences—Our journeys — Our #MovingStories @reimaginemigrat Activity inspired by @renecolato’s picture book —My Shoes and I #DignidadLiteraria #CompellingText

Best investment HERE! Each student in a group will now have a copy of a graphic novel for next week’s project 🙌🏽🔥📖 Share your ideas on Character analysis & developed in graphic novels — centering an Immigrant experience. #MovingStories #TellYourStory #StoriesMatter #DignidadLiteraria #CompellingText @reimaginemigrat

Trifold organizers 🤩🔥 Beautiful hour this morning grading my newcomers’ trifold organizers. Great way for me to see their thinking & understanding! Together we read “No Home” by @SDLBACK & learned about homeless among youth in the US 😔 #NewComers #WebLife #CompellingText

I always enjoy my newcomers’ responses & analysis of the picture book DREAMERS by the amazing @yuyimorales 🔥📖🤯 #CompellingText #CompellingBooks #MakingConnections

Some are DONE 🤩 Some of our Rainbow Picture Book Reports are DONE ✅📖📚🌈 They’re looking GREAT! Fantastic analysis & so much learning 🤓 #CompellingText #CompellingLit They’re taking long to complete because it’s independent work while pulling small groups 😉

Our newcomers’ responses BLOW MY MIND 🤯 Our read aloud was all about Luis Soriano & his amazing initiative to bringing books to children in rural areas in Colombia 🇨🇴📚 The critical thinking demonstrated here is amazing. #CompellingText

Ke-Mauni read MY BOOK 🙌🏽 Ke-Mauni asked me a few weeks ago if she could have a copy of my book — She didn’t have to ask twice!!!! Today she shared with me how much she enjoyed it 🙏🏽♥️ #CompellingText #IfUonlyKnewBook #TellYourStory #StoriesMatter

Every #Newcomer engaged with a complex text. #CompellingText will get you there! 👏👏👏 Thx @gphs_mwilliams Thx @emilyfranESL

Newcomers READING! 📖 Thank you to wonderful donors who donated amazing books through @DonorsChoose — Students are not only reading…but they’re also reading en ESPAÑOL 🙌🏽🔥📚 I cannot wait to hear all about their reading!! #CompellingText #HispanicHeritageMonth

Great book releasing next week 😀 & it’s en español también 🔥 #LatinxAuthors #LatinxLit #CompellingText

Check this out!!! 😲🔥📚📖📦 My newcomers get to enjoy NEW & GREAT books. These new @SDLBACK kits are a game changer 🙌🏽 #Phonics #SightWords #vocabulary AND #CompellingText Already planning for next school year!

One of Alhassan’s goals this New Year is “…to learn the laws of America” — I sent him home with two great @SDLBACK books: 📖 New American 📖 Citizenship He was very happy to have books at his level and in the topic he’s interested in 🙌🏽🔥📚 #HiLoBooks #CompellingText

THIS is why I LOVE our local public library 🙌🏽🔥📖📚 I just checked out 4 copies of Emmanuel’s Dream story to read with our newcomers. The lessons learned from Emmanuel are powerful & I cannot wait for students to see how they TOO are capable. #SiSePuede #CompellingText

Prompt: Did you like this book? Why or why not? Newcomers: we like to book because we felt identify with the story— the best thing was the end when everything got better. “Children started to integrate & feel happy.” 🙌🏽 💥 #CompellingText #ELsCAN 📖 by @AnneSbleyOBrien

Wonderful choices! #CompellingText #StudentChoice 🔥📚

Had to get a new bookshelf for our new books 🙌🏽📚🔥😍 I can’t wait to share these new titles with our students. Thank you, @SDLBACK #HiLoBooks #NoBabyBooks #CompellingText

Today’s class Youtube read-aloud: “Almost Human” ~ @SDLBACK 📚 My #ELs will enjoy the text, sorting sentences based on the text, & answering comprehension questions using the text! They’ll LOVE learned about 10-9-1 & 10-9-5 ❤️🤖❤️🤖 #CompellingText #Newcomers