Claire, Elizabeth,

Classroom teacher's ESL survival kit #1 / [print] by Elizabeth Claire, Judie Haynes ; illustrated by J.D. Frazier ; edited by John Chapman. - Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Alemany Press, (c)1994. - vii, 78, R120 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

"For mainstream teachers in elementary schools"--Cover.

Part I: You and your ESL students: Meeting the special challenge. Making advance preparations -- The newcomers' first days -- The first challenge: culture shock -- Strategies for two-way communication -- General teaching strategies -- Materials and equipment for ESL learners -- Teaching reading to your newcomers -- Challenges in learning to read English -- Helping ESL learners in the content areas -- Questions teachers ask -- Testing, report cards, and parent conferences -- Get help from school aides and volunteers -- District policies and practices that help ESL learners -- Appendix: annotated resources -- Part II: Teachers' instructions for the reproducible activity sheets -- Part III: Reproducible activity sheets: Tools for teachers -- Newcomer orientation -- Alphabet, colors, and other beginning concepts -- School and park scenes -- Reading about animals -- Easy stories -- Beginning social studies -- Health -- Mathematics -- Surveys for social interaction.



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English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

PE1128.C466.C537 1994