Posts by Sonia Barcelo
Left Behind, Still: English Learners Still Need a Bridge to ELA Standards
Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins, 24 seconds I started teaching in 1991. I was an ESL teacher and taught LEP (Limited English Proficient) students at the secondary level. Finding resources that were high interest, age- appropriate, and at a Lexile level for non-English speakers was pretty much impossible. My students ranged in age from 13…
Read More5 Simple Steps for Working with Non-English Speaking ELs & SIFEs
Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins, 37 secs As an educator, how are you supposed to teach about arguments and claims to students who don’t understand or speak any English? Not only do these students not know English, but they don’t seem to have had much formal education in their native country either. But yet, you’re…
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