Shawne’s Blog

http://teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=145&title=Literature_Circles

Listened to a variety of videos about teaching literature and grammar to ELLs. Excellent ways to teach sequencing (eslpartyland) + sharing and peer teaching literature using the literature circles. Students really like viewing videos, so they are an great way to engage students. Videos help ELLs to improve their listening skills, offer students real examples of everyday English spoken by everyday people, provide opportunities to also work on speaking skills. As an ELL teacher, I could create various lessons using videos. Prior to viewing the video, I would introduce it by using the strategy, KWL, + introduce difficult/new vocabulary heard in the video. As a class, the students would watch the video together. This helps to improve their listening skills, as I would incorporate listening lessons within the lesson, as well as, conversation lessons, and pronunciation lessons, e.g. tongue twisters. Students would listen and repeat.