The Dolch Sight Word lists are broken up by level and frequency for that level of reader. They are not organized by difficulty. This is rather important when we begin to teach these words to ESL/EFL students. I teach the word lists but I break them up into 3 sections and order them ...
When I am teaching sight words, I try to remember this phenomenon. I never teach less or stop encouraging those students, but I do have the ability to hold frustration and fear of report card requirements at bay. Misconception 4: Students should have the all the time in the world to try...
Teaching English as a second language (ESL) can be difficult without knowing the proper strategies to do so, but it can be even harder if your students have learning disorders. Even experienced teachers often go many years in their profession before teaching their first student with a learning ...
In order to examine the influence of these strategies; phonics and sight words , on elementary learners , a total of 180 elementary in third and fourth grade students in a private English institute in Iran , both male and female take KET Starter Exam reading and writing test as their ...
In other words, relying solely on student reports of their teacher may cause issues because students have individual biases that affect their general preferences and the extent to which they can parse out the effectiveness of teachers’ specific practices. In predicting other questionnaire variables, ...
To determine whether a verb is prepositional or phrasal, your ESL students must look at the transitivity of the verb, the function of the preposition, and separability of the preposition. First consider the transitivity of the verb. If the verb is transitive, then the verb-preposition combination...
Jenny, an American teacher from California, sat in Dean's office again, feeling perplexed by the students' negative responses to her kinesthetic and global styles of teaching. Despite Jenny's persistent efforts to convince the students of the advantages of her teaching styles, she was told by ...
Eventually, students will learn to recognize words by sight, quickening their pace of reading and allowing them to spend time and energy on understanding what they read instead of decoding. Teachers can scaffold readers as they build word recognition skills in three main ways: Spelling ...
So, a serious warning to all people still learning English: both questions mean the same. They are simply identical. If you’re an English teacher, please don’t hesitate to point this fact out to your students and warn them about any other potential mistakes they are sure to encounter on...
As ESL students develop English writing skills, it's important to give them the opportunity to explore specific types of writing. In this lesson, we'll discuss some examples, formats and strategies designed to teach newspaper article writing to ESL learners. Extra! Extra! While writing may not...