Category: Student Support

  • Teaching French Pronunciation

    Speaking French and writing French are very different. Not all the letters in a French word are pronounced and the letter combinations to form vowel sounds are different than in English. Learning the rules for pronunciation will not only help learners be understood, it will also improve spelling and will increase a student’s understanding of…

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  • Dyslexia and language learning

    In my previous post I have shared actionable steps for making a more equitable language class: Get to know your students and their cultural background Show images that include people of diverse races Include the non Eurocentric perspective Use authentic texts written by insiders to teach culture Leverage different pathways of learning to be inclusive…

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  • Scaffolding for language students

    Scaffolding for language students: Building on knowledge of the RDC To support all students, our goal is to create learning experiences that work for every young person in our classroom. We want to have multiple pathways to acquiring new vocabulary and our students will learn based on the repetition of these many different activities. Ways…

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  • Strategies for reading with Novices

    Here are strategies for teaching reading so that the next time your students are tackling a text, you can rely on these ideas. I have ten to share to support you in your teaching of reading to Novices. Choose an accessible text. For this post I will refer to a text that I used in…

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