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Do a Dansyari Didactic:
Streamline Practice through Interventions &
New Books for Adults and Children, Free Applications, and Writing Tools for the taking
See below! Scroll all the way down! 
GAMES tab offers purposeful PowerPoint game templates and ideas! Create forms like the one below under the Easier Assessment tab under this menu bar. Blog for topic discussion with your students! Formulate your own strategy for advocating for your challenged ELL or focus student and play with Infographic solutions!

Status Report for Colleagues Regarding Student Progress

Cover your desks with BLUE BUTCHER PAPER to increase focus! IT WORKS!!!! Put Text, Sentence and Question Starters in the far corners of the desk in different colors to facilitate speaking skills!

Develop Word Attack Skills in an
Unconventional Way for E.S.L. Students! 

Use Visual Phonics for Vowels and Blends
Use A.S.L. for Consonants

A PBS series hosted by Alan Alda called The Human Spark Part 3 The Brain Matters featured Harvard's Dr. Elizabeth Spelke explaining systems of knowledge. She noted the necessity of manipulating symbols with language through a demonstration with a young boy in the acquisition stages of language.  My ESL student with interrupted formal education demonstrated 25% growth in one summer school session using it paired with Rosetta Stone! The Visual Phonics and A.S.L. were the tie breakers though in their private practice with Rosetta Stone because that was where I saw the enlightend expressions! Rosetta Stone helped them practice it. You can adapt it to different language transfer challenges.  You can use this chart for one set of languages, but the languages will obviously differ.http://tesoros.macmillanmh.com/assets/extras/0001/
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Get a FREE Outlook account and Office applications like PowerPoint and Word and Excel and NoteOne at onedrive.live.com! (Who Loves Ya baby?!?!) Scroll under Books and Movies for Writing Support Tools!
NoteOne at OneDrive
Create a page in your notebook with
communications notes for each child or
lesson/unit plans you might want to make!
Use NEW, NOTEBOOK, create the journal and label +SECTIONS with your labels in the popup menu dialogue line and click OK.

Books & a Movie for Your Review: Reading Pleasure and Information

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Was God answering a teacher's prayer with this one? Hundreds of vignettes and full text stories from time honored classics to the latest. Some titles are listed below.  They all have virtual annotation features for close reading and highlighting to create vocabulary lists with notes for synonyms to develop vocabulary.  Blasts with related topics on current issues.  Middle and high school students discuss relevant story information in a story rehashing. Written assignments that can be sent directly to the students' email addresses are ready for your direction.  What a godsend for students' with organization issues who love technology and those who love them!
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For Middle and High School Students (Psst: You might even enjoy these yourself!)

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by W.Kamkwamba 
This story is by William Kamkwamba and is a child's version of the adult book about being touched by science.  It is a GREAT story of hope!
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
A moving adventure story shared across generations with a former slave's insight on being an American.  I predict the unexpected connections! :) That's what reading is all about!
VietnAmerica by GB Tran
This is a heartwarming graphic novel of a Vietnamese family's journey to the United States every U.S. citizens will enjoy.
Iqbal by Francesco D'Adamo
This a deeply inspiring story of a Pakistani youth who sparked a revolution in child labor law and paid the ultimate price for it.  He modeled himself after Abraham Lincoln. You will love him and the sweeping reforms the Pakistanis effected because of his activism!
Parallel Journeys by Eleanor Ayer
It is the recollection of period people.   One of Germany's monument inscriptions in Fuerth, Germany below testifies to the spirit of the book through Psalm 79, Pslam of Asaph.
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The story of escape from Denmark by a Jewish family and a Newberry Award winner with a tension building plot that brings an interesting end. Read it as an extension to other stories.
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
This is a story of the courage of the Mirabal sisters and the influence of their murder on the Dominican Republic's people at the time of Rafael Trujillo, considered one of the most infamous dictators of Latin American history.
Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang
A little hero's story of challenges during Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution.
Necessary Roughness by Marie G. Lee
The story of an Asian American boy who moves to a place that doesn't know soccer. What??!!?!?? No FIFA????
El Guero by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
A true story of a boy and his family who have to leave Mexico and can't find people to listen.
I am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment
The true story of Young Shi Nomura who was among the 120,000 Japanese Americans who lost everything, just for being Japanese.
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
A dramatization of a world suddenly foreign - The New Yorker
Calm surfaces, turmoil beneath - The Boston Globe
Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza
The story of a little boy and his family who makes his way in a very different culture and coming to know it. 
 Color of My Words by Lynn Joseph
The struggle of a young girl to become a writer  and sometimes the unthinkable tragedies that surround a young life.
Soft Rain by Cornelia Cornelissen
The sad story of a young girl's forced march from the North Carolina mountains to Oklahoma after the passage of the 1830 Indian Removal Act.
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
The story of a 16 year old boy on trial for murder has to convince the jury of his innocence.
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrik
Two challenged boys become friends. What can happen when they combine forces?
Behind Enemy Lines: High Interest Book
The story of Scott O'Grady and his experience in Serb held Bosnia.
Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filopovic
A Muslim girl's story of the trials of war in Sarajevo. Often paired with Anne Frank as an extension.

Movie for Consumption

Behind Enemy Lines 
Based on the true story of US Air Force pilot Scott O'Grady who was shot down over Serb held territory in Bosnia with a daring rescue by his commanding officer.
Sophie Scholl: A Gripping True Story
The true story of a young German idealist who fought Hitler and paid the ultimate price for trying to bring Hitler's real agenda to world attention. An Academy Award nominee. 

Miracle at Midnight
A story of neighbors who risk everything to save a Jewish family from certain death. Watch it!
Hidden in Silence
Based on a true story of an attempt to save the Diamant family and others by a woman called Fusia.  Watch for a particularly poignant scene about saving a child.

For Adults

Lies My Teacher Told by James Loewen
How irresistible is a book that says, and I paraphrase "Teachers teach truth, and publishers sell patriotism"?  I am waiting for a break to read this one. My mother is delighting in it! Highly recommended by an experienced Mom! 
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement
A national best seller flying off the shelf and mind candy by Diane Ravitch, former Assistant Secretary of Education under Lamar Alexander (our Maverick),for the critical thinker to prevent natural selection of educational philosophies. Read it :) ! With the plethora of individual paths our children tread, we need all paths available to them to ensure their success, not closures! I might also mention that North Carolina schools are 5th in the world for mathematics and science success according to TIMSS 2012!
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
This is a national best seller on the subject of language development for a reason.  I am still devouring each bon mots! His How The Mind Works is another fascinating read! I am between them both! Hope you get a chance to read them! 
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (The Adult Version)
This is the adult version of William Kamkwamba's journey to become an engineer through Brian Mealer's collaboration to anyone interested. I love seeing ingenuity stories and this is one of the most inspired I have read in a long time ! Children will be astounded at the power of drive when you decide to make it happen with knowledge! Read it for a background before presenting the children's version!

Bon Mots:Golden Opportunities

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Create a PASSPORT STATION for additional
practice.  Get concept related worksheets or develop them for the student with a vis-a-vis pen. Laminate the worksheets for an economical resource management strategy for a turn-key response to a student's need. You can also create them on Google Docs under New or your choice of templates in OneDrive. Look under EDUCATION.  Conference with the student for error clarification and redirection.  Their interactive intelligence will be activated and they will respond to your thoughtfulness. Conferencing is a significant tertiary intervention strategy according to the Response To Intervention  (RTI) school of thought.  As they say:
"...attention should be on fidelity of implementation, with consideration for cultural and linguistic responsiveness and recognition of student strengths." Center on Response to Intervention  
http://www.rti4success.org/

Helping Strategies

Share with your colleagues and use when a student is struggling in their class. Other interventions can be found on the website below.
RTI Philosophy
RTI for English Language Learners
RTI Forms and Checklists
Master Instructional Strategies Flipchart
Visual Phonics
American Sign Language for Consonants
Inattentional Blindness

Writing Support Center

Writing Styles in Different Cultures
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PictureShow the children what goes where! Topic sentences in particular give them trouble. It's a different way to write in some cases. Explaining it will facilitate instruction!
Show them the parts and process! See the Saving the Great White Shark: A Kid's Perspective and Sabates Project for  for Product Level Process with Model and Final Product. Below is an animated version of story 

This organizer was developed by Charlotte Mecklenburg  Schools Differentiation Academy and I adapted it to facilitate discussion in small bytes from their model for my topic. Try it in your class!

Infographic Approach Writing Projects  with Targeted Language Levels addressed. Enjoy Them! :)

Paragraph Analysis with Any Concept Connection Modeled

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As you read through the project note the analysis of introductory and concluding paragraphs. Note also the connections between the introductory paragraphs and topic sentences as well as supporting details.

Modeled Writing in Science for Practicing Science Vocabulary

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Start with a depth and complexity organizer for zeroing in on the concepts in a short language. Extension comes with practice.
Have an infographic format for projects as an engagement for writing :)
Fallon Method

Teaching Vocabulary

Academic Language
Signal Words
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Checklists
When you work with ELL student parents, they have a different set of needs or values.  As a bicultural child, I remember how my parent did not understand why projects had to be so expensive or have a short preparation time. Give a little bit of lead time for the kids to  prepare a quality product and class time so they can conference with you about your expectations.  Different mathematical problem solving methods will also be in place in the home, so be open to that.  Be sensitive to the financial burdens you place on students with projects.

More Bon Mots

Join AWW80S
Culture Kits
How do schools around the world operate?
International Education Vignettes
Schools Around the World in Pictures
School Lunches Around the World
Teaching Tolerance

Checklist Your Classroom Needs

Master Strategies Flipchart! BUY IT!
Response to Intervention Flipchart: Get it!
RTI for the Classroom
For Planning a WiDA based unit, here is a sample.
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These are from past colleagues that I am sharing with all of America...Thanks to all who gave unselfishly to help the kids!

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Bon Mots continues...

The quest for knowledge never stops!
Bibliography Maker
Why is the Maker Movement Important?
JSTOR
Damaging Effects of Stereotyping
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Why do people become immigrants? What do they face when they come? Learn one Journey and the uphill battle they take on in the Language Process below.

The classical view of language development. U.S.Language Development Leaders 

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Access the information on the buttons and ponder what you see on the videos below. The scholars are brought to you in the order in which they occur in your students' language process development as well as regular education student issues. Reflect on each and you will see a recursive pattern that builds on itself through their contributions. You will recognize the same pattern in the works of Microsoft and Apple.

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Check out the U.S.
Language Development Guru Videos Below for Language Development Insight. 

Arne Duncan on Civil Rights for Education
Benefits of Immigrants
A number of years ago, I read an article that I can't find anymore but the thought stuck. I've also been one of these for IBM.  Silicon Valley, engineering in general, will sometimes use people with absolutely no experience in problem solving on an issue they're addressing to make sure they have considered all angles, ingénue input if you will.  How appropriate for an idea-driven culture always looking for alternative approaches in brainstorming.  Just a thought...
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Peak Learning Systems helped me understand the need for practice.
Advocating for Immigrant Children
Welcoming Refugees
LANGUAGE TRANSFER ISSUES
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Our English Language Learners do this everyday and even though it takes time, they stick with it! Let's advocate for the same challenges in foreign language for fluency! 

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Common Core Explained

A New Biology...

Noam Chomsky, A Founding Father of ESL
For the dabbler...
More in depth analysis of the Mind-Body-Grammar connection...
Start this one at marker 2:10 and turn up the volume. Bon mots from one of the language godfathers.

Steven Pinker Explains Language

Steven Pinker: Human Nature and Language
Dawson-Brew Studies of Ghana

 Searching for Patterns isn't always easy...

Patterns as a Learning Tool
Interactive Phonemic Chart for Hearing Patterns
Print Awareness: Noticing Written Patterns

My Number One Tool for Building Print Awareness
and Orthographic Skills. I also use it to develop Essential Knowledge Terms and Information Correlation: QUIZLET!

For Print Awareness Building and Recursive Practice
Apps For Print Awareness Reading Rockets Recommends:
This won't apply to elementary students, but there are issues around writing that teachers need to be aware of, e.g., topic sentences and paragraphs. How a student has been taught before, and the direction of how even the expression form works isn't wrong, we just have a different system. Read on for interesting insights.
Inattentional Blindness: Daniel Simons & Chris Chabris

Change Blindness: Parts of Seeing Patterns

Arien Mack & Irvin Rock

Stephen Krashen Explaining Second Language Process

Stephen Krashen,Founding Father of ESL
Elizabeth Spelke: Which Comes First?

Carol Ann Tomlinson and Differentiation

Carol Ann Tomlinson, Founder of Differentiation

Food for Thought from America's Engineers...

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Webb's Depth and Knowledge Taxonomy
for Ideal Instruction

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IMPLEMENTATION

Robert Marzano's Strategies

Marzano On Language

Robert Marzano's Cues and Questions

Margarita Calderon on Preventing Long Term ELLs
Known For: Vocabulary Development, Shadow Reading and Tiered Language

ExCell for ESL, Advocate of Vocabulary Focus
ExcEll Vocabulary Pre-teaching Strategies
Basics of Chunking
Chunking in Language Learning

Lily Wong Fillmore on
Text Complexity and Common Core

Lilly Wong Fillmore

Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Leaves No Child Behind

BGfL Test for Multiple Intelligences
Pandora for Musical Intelligences and Chunking

Multiple Intelligences and Strategies

An Alternative Viewpoint on Learning Styles

Field (In)dependent Learning Styles

Brain Based Games to Address Multiple Intelligences: - Spence Rogers and PEAK!

PEAK Learning Systems; Brain Based Learning

Bloom's Taxonomy

Bloom's Taxonomy
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How can you teach Bloom's Taxonomy? Here's one idea! See the slide show below and play the game. See the notes!

Culturally Responsive Teaching

Bonnie Davis, PhD: Founder CRT
Culture Crossing for Cultural Information
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Partnering with ELL Parents

S.I.O.P.: Sheltered Instructional Observational Protocoll

C.A.L. Institute

WHAT  IS LIKE TO LEARN SOMETHING YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT? TRY IT!

SIFE: Students with Interrupted Formal Ed
Arts as a Tool for English Language Learners
ELL Statistics 
Richard Lewis: When Cultures Clash
Dangers of Stereotyping
How Mapmaking Improves Storytelling

Teach Essential Knowledge First, Then Expand! :)

This is an easy way to teach ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE and vocabulary simultaneously with ExCell's synonym approach to word definition. Notice the example in Sustain: Keep. Note the sentence starter 'This is about' and the compare and contrast signal words of 'like' and 'however'.  Try it!  Your students will love the ease and your parents will appreciate the accelerated results.Use Quizlet to facilitate!
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