Tag Archives: At home support

Summer Activities

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Summer time is approaching and the majority of students are looking forward to a well-deserved break. Some families might express an interest in activities that will help their children maintain their English language over the summer. While families and students are encouraged to relax and enjoy their time together, here are a few ideas that they could try throughout the summer:

As always, contact your ELL Resource Teacher if you are looking for more ideas and activities.

Communicating with Parents

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Are you having difficulty communicating with parents whose primary language is something other than English? Using Google Translator within Google Meet helps teachers connect with new English language learners and their parents.

Digital Manipulatives

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Brainingcamp is offering a free license until June 30, 2020.

“Brainingcamp is passionate about using technology to make abstract math more interactive and visual for learners. We believe physical manipulatives provide students with an important tactile experience, but digital manipulatives can be more convenient, easier to use, and include many special features to facilitate learning.”

Source: https://www.brainingcamp.com/

“Adrian Mendoza shares how to interact with math virtual manipulatives to promote mathematical conversations from a distance using strategic questions, sentence stems, and visuals while encouraging curiosity in a mathematical growth mindset classroom setting.”

Source: https://youtu.be/jbdmj8Dxr6k

Here are a couple other free resources with digital manipulatives:

ABC.ya

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This site is not just intended for ELL students, as it is something I use with my kids at home. It offers grade-level games for students in Kindergarten up to grade 6. It will inevitably assist a student with developing the fundamental skills needed to succeed in numeracy, phonics, reading, and writing. ABC.ya!

ESL Kids

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Flashcards, worksheets, and much more!

This site offers free, printable flashcards and worksheets to be used at school or at home. For those learning English, you can choose to print off the flashcards with the English word on them or without. Students could also write the name in their first language to assist them as well.

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