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﻿[[image:school.jpg width="132" height="126"]]Literacy Learning at Home and at School


Information for Parents:

The link below will give you information on helping your child with literacy skills at home.



Information for Teachers: 

Does your ELL student have a learning difficulty or is it just language? 

Factors to consider:
 * The student is putting forth appropriate effort for learning, but continues to experience difficulty.
 * The student is highly motivated to learn, but still has difficulty with assignments.
 * Traditional methods for teaching students with special needs are effective with your ELL student.
 * Student requires extra help with many assignments, not due to language.

For more information regarding learning difficulties vs. language learning, see below.

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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Using Anchor Charts in literacy development: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Oral Language Development: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">Chicka Chicka Boom Boom __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">is a book in which all of the lowercase letters of the alphabet climb the coconut tree. The tree bends because of all the weight and the letter fall out. The uppercase letters then come and take card of their “little ones”. It is great for teaching alphabet knowledge. It is written by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Age Level: Pre K-1

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Proficiency Level: Pre-Production/Beginner

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The following link has many activities that go along with the book.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The following link is for a lesson plan for reviewing alphabet knowledge using the book __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">Chicka Chicka Boom Boom __. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Below is a link to a Reading Rockets article. =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">English Language Learners and the Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">By: Beth Antunez (2002)

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">If you need further assistance, please contact me at <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">dana.westveer@mnps.org <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">or at 615-847-7317, ext, 100