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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Hispanic Heritage: Meet Mexico

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Hispanic Heritage Student Workbook with Teacher's Answer key

Dear Educators:

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! I have compiled a Hispanic History eBook full of ready made worksheets for students to use. Please check it out. I am proud of my work!

The enclosed worksheets are reproducible for classroom use. This E-Book should not be distributed by anyone other than the author. Enclosed are several vocabulary, sentence structure, mapping, and reading comprehension word games designed for intermediate to advanced level students of English as a second language and Spanish as a second language. The focus is on Hispanic Heritage.

These exercises are for secondary and college level ESL and or students studying Spanish. This E-Book was designed for supplemental instruction. The word games can be used to review, reinforce and celebrate Hispanic history. The vocabulary games are appropriate for individual as well as group work. The exercises can be used in class or as brief take home assignments.

The activities were designed to be enjoyable, challenging, and most importantly enlightening. They were calculated to save teachers time by supplying ready to use supplementary material.

Vocabulary is presented in context to the theme of Hispanic history in an effort to increase knowledge and understanding of the diverse cultures of the people of the United States. Students will increase their reading, writing, and vocabulary skills through exposure to the Hispanic Heritage customs, traditions, institutions, and values.

It is my hope that this activity E-Book will help develop new perspectives about America’s cultural diversity and build the self esteem of culturally diverse students. To this end, teachers should recommend students using a dictionary and or some type of reference guide with this book. Please note most answers are in the book. However, dictionaries can expedite the second language learning process immensely.

The directions to the students are simple. However, teachers should go over the directions with the students to make sure students understand the task at hand. In fact, despite there being a full answer key for teachers, it is recommended that teachers complete the packet without the answer key, to have a sincere sense of the information disseminated and skills targeted.

Since comprehension of directions is critical to second language learning, the directions are repeated and designed to familiarize students with directional terms used in many content area classes and tests. The directional terms used include:

Fill in

Circle

List

Unscramble

Match

Rewrite

Note underlined words

Read

If students are unfamiliar with word games, please initiate the word games as a group activity. Enjoy the work and the students! Please email us at: eslexcellence@aol.com with any feedback you may have. We want to hear from you! Thank you for your patronage.

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ESL and Spanish Teachers Dream Come True: The Hispanic Heritage Student Workbook: Teacher's Edition

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Tips for New ESL Beginning Level Teachers

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

The New York State Core Curriculum Guide for English as a Second Language in the Secondary Schools

Below you will find one of the best ESL curriculum guides I have read. I say this because it is specific, to the point, and effective. The new ESL curriculum guides are deliberately diluted, ambiguous and advance pure confusion in the ESL classroom. Educators who want to educate ESL students properly, please review this guide and create an effective ESL/ELL program today! Beginning level guides begin on page 24 and intermediate level page 48. This is a great resource. Treasure it!

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