Reminders

ELL Elementary Teachers: There has been some shuffling of staff so please take 1 minute to fill out the survey listed in TEAMS so we have a list of who is where. Thank you!!!

BC TESOL

BC TESOL is going virtual. The keynote is Kate Kinesella who is discussing ways to improve academic language. Registration is here: http://bctesol.ca/conference-2020/

Resource Share

We can’t wait to get our hands on this upcoming book by local author and fellow ELL teacher Hieu Pham-Fraser.  The Little Girl is Hieu’s own story about the importance of names and systemic racism. Books are being planned for before Christmas so add your pledge to this excitement project or ask friends and family to get you a copy: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1822498000/the-little-girl/community

Share it out

Consider sharing this poster with your school at the next staff meeting.  Often, when we talk about academic language, people assume we are describing Tier 3 words, but Tier 2 language are words students need for ALL subjects. Encourage everyone to focus on teaching the Tier 2 vocabulary students will need to be successful at the current unit.  A list of examples of academic words by grade level can be found on the blog here: http://blogs.sd41.bc.ca/ell/files/2017/12/Tier-2-vocab-K-12.pdf

Have a great week!

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