Classroom Teacher’s ESL Survival Kit # 1

A completely reproducible resource that provides insight, strategies, and materials for working with beginning ESL students in a mainstream class, in grades 1 to 8 It's also a unique ESL training manual for ESL teachers who want to provide in-service courses for mainstream teachers.   Section One: Helps the classroom teacher understand the obstacles facing the not-yet-English speaking newcomers in her class, with suggestions for providing a fully-challenging academic day for them, even when they can't yet understand what's going on. It’s "the Reader's Digest version" of ESL insights, recognizing the limitations and pressures on a< mainstream teacher's time and schedule. It's written in non-technical language, with the emphasis on practical ideas for mixed classes.   We explain: Culture shock, its symptoms, effects, and cures The many stages that English language learners go through in learning to understand, read, write and speak a new language.   There are step-by-step inst