WestEd is a nonprofit research, development, and service agency and they're organizing a Webinar focused in English language learners. Agenda is scheduled to beging on October 8th and it's being shout out through SchoolMovingUP, which is a WestEd inicitive:
The following are the webinar you will have the oportunity to attend:
1. English Learner Literacy Development through Formative Assessment of Oral Language by Alison Bailey and Margaret Heritage.
2. English Learners and the Language Arts by Pamela Spycher.
3. Doing What Works: Teaching Elementary-School English Learners by Nikola Filby.
4. What the Research Does—and Does Not—Say About Teaching English Language Learners by Claude Goldenberg.
5. Building Oral Language into Content Area Instruction (Research from CREATE) by Diane August.
6. Web Tour Taking Center Stage--Act II : Ensuring Success for Middle Grades English Learners by Carol Abbott and Jeanette Ganahl.
7. English Learners in Secondary Mathematics: Rigor and Excellence by Leslie Hamburger.
8. Making Standards-based Lessons Understandable for English Learners: The SIOP Model (Encore Presentation) by Jana Echevarria.
9. Quality Teaching for English Learners: High Challenge and High Support by AĆda Walqui.
Enough time to plan ahead. Want to participate? Here is how to get involved in these webinars.
Some help along the way with a short vowel, long vowel, and consonant. Thanks to Mary Kay Linge who in her Reading Tutor points: 1. When one vowel appears between two consonants, the vowel usually says its short sound. 2. If there is an e at the end of a word, the vowel sound is long and the e is not pronounced -it's silent. 3. A vowel before a doubled consonant says its short sound. 4. When two vowels appear together, we usually hear only the first vowel, and it says its long sound(or, "When two vowels go walking, the first does the talking") 5. When a word has only one vowel and it appears at the end of the word, it usually says its long sound. 6. When c or g comes immediately before a,o or u we say its hard sound. 7. When c or g comes immediately before e, i, o or y we say its soft sound. However, there are many exceptions to every one of the rules, and learning them will only come with time and reading experience. No wonder so many struggle!
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