Bilingual anchor charts

Dual language Ideas

Laura - Learning Bilingually on Instagram: “EL PUENTE 🌉 BRIDGING anchor chart - a way to explicitly show students how to bridge the languages and what aspects we should be looking at…”

Dual Language Ideas

I previously posted on some of the first lessons I did in the Dual Language classrooms throughout our building at the beginning of the year to introduce myself and get acquainted with the classes. One of the lessons you may remember that I did with the intermediate grades was based on a poem expressing the benefits of being bilingual. Feel free to view this previous post if you haven't already for a bit of background here. Last week, one of the second grade teachers asked if I could do this…

I love using cognates to help empower my older newcomers to access high-level vocab! (They are all Spanish-speakers right now) Explicit teaching of the patterns also increases their metalinguistic awareness! #ELLs #ELLchat