Reading Strategies for ESL Students

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Reading Strategies for ESL Students
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• Monica Alvarez

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Who can benefit from using reading strategies?

• Students who are learning how to read in a
  language other than their own.
• Elementary school students learning how to read.
• Students who have learning disabilities.

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Before applying the strategies, keep in mind that

• Learning to read is a process
• Let the students go at their own pace
• Always be patient
• The hard part of reading is at the
• beginning, it gets easier with practice.
• Involve the parents
• Reading should start/continue at
• home

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During and After Applying Strategies

• Encourage reading as entertainment.
• Always associate see hear.
• Fill classroom with books (of different levels).
• Targeted Skills listening and reading
• speaking and
  writing

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What is out there?

• Old fashioned way
• Play Dough/Magnetic letters
• Pinups
• Matching Games
• Phonics
• Alphabet Charts
• Song Sheets

• Technology
• Audio Books
• Closed Captioning
• Subtitles
• Leap Pad
• Reading Software

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Using Phonics to Read

• Dissect unfamiliar words into parts
• ex PHO NIC S
• E LE - PHANT
• Join the parts together to form
• words
• ex PHONICS
• ELEPHANT

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Alphabet Chart
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Song Sheets
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www.humongous.com
Using technology as a Reading Strategy
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References

• http//www.straightdope.com/classics/a950428.html
  
• http//www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content3/phonic
  s.whole.p.k12.3.html
• http//www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/features/readi
  ng/phonics.shtml
• http//www.succeedtoread.com/
• http//www.pei.literacy.ca/family/thingsto/thingst
  o.pdf
• http//dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/
  l/longestword.html
• http//www.eslkidstuff.com/Song_Sheet_Menu.htm
• http//www.liveink.com/whatis/history.htm
• http//www.liveink.com/whatis/readingproblem.htm

• http//www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palm
  asola/contextclues.pdf
• http//www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001436.
  shtml
• http//www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palm
  asola/vis1.pdf
• http//www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/teaching_techni
  ques/ncld_summit99_twodecades.htmltwo
• http//www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/stw_esys/str_read.
  htm
• www.humongous.com
• http//www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palm
  asola/readcompex.htm
• http//www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/reading/reading
  _methods.html
• http//k6educators.about.com/cs/languagearts/a/tea
  chreading.htm