ESOL Oral Language Activity
Working with Aldia, who is currently studying the ELL course outside school, has been beneficial in terms of ideas to implement in class for our EL learners but without an observation it is obviously hard to fully understand what has been explained. There are a few strategies and 'games' that she has discussed with us. One being the 'Say it' game. She came and taught the lesson in my class. Step 1: Introduce the vocab. She did this by discussing it as a group (though it would be much better introducing it in context before the lesson if possible. After the explanation she went on to let the students as each other: Name, I want you to answer A2. Then read the square. Then they answer, very simple. And the 'answerer' chooses the next person and the square. What I learned from this. Alida's explanation was very simple. Not too many words, very clear. The students found it very easy to follow because of this. She explained to me also when pla