Implementing Reading First with English Language Learners

Implementing Reading First with English Language Learners

1. Reading Fluency, Including Oral Reading Skills

   • Read along books to help students gain fluency.
   • Have students act out plays. It will encourage more reading, oral comprehension skills.

2. Phonemic Awareness

   • Flash cards with pictures,so when they pronounce the word of the picture, it will make it easier to find the phonemes
   • To help students separate syllables, I would help them by using the clapping technique.

3. Phonics

   • Nursing rhymes to start off with, to help them gain understanding of words with the repetitive use of words.
   • When learning new sounding word such as /c/, give a book that uses the alteration of the /c/ to help reinforce the found letter connection.

4. Vocabulary Development

   • Show them a new new story they haven't come across before and integrate the vocabulary words with the story to make it more interesting.
   • Expose students to new vocabulary words and have them practice the words in an activity describing their day.

5. Reading Comprehension Strategies

   • Give students activities on phrases that they don't know and try to make them act it out, and of they cannot figure it out tell them what it means and try to act it out using the phrase correctly.
   • When given a book, the student will be stopped after reading a few pages and asked questions about the text they have read.

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