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 Promoting SLA Literacy in the Classroom and Home Environment This page includes ideas and resources for teachers and parents of ESL students in order to promote SLA Literacy.

This page also includes the parent newsletter created to keep in touch with parents regarding the events & progress in my ESL classrooom. Parent Newsletter

Teachers must know the signs of identifying learning differences in their students. Teachers must assess 1. Phonology and Phonological Processing -Ability to recognize and produce sounds and sound sequences -Ability to successfully engage in speech production tasks that require the ability to utilize the language sound system. media type="youtube" key="-gA7qq7Ja4U" height="339" width="436" Above is a clip from "My Fair Lady". Poor Professor Higgins is trying to teach Eliza Doolittle how to pronounce the H sound.

2. Working Memory -Ability to utilize working memory to decode words and process what is read. -Ability to use working memory to use grapheme phoneme rules.

3. Word Level Skills - Ability to use letter sound relationships to decode print.

4. Text Level Skills -Ability to utilize vocabulary, meaning, language structure, and textual knoweledge in reading writing and communicating.



 Here are a couple of websites that explain the importance of literacy development and oral language development in the SLA process.

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 Lesson plan Tongue Twisters - A recipe for making fail-proof twisters. This lesson plan is great for all ages. It promotes phonology & Phonolgical Processing, Working Memory, Word Level Skills and Text Level skills. Not to mention it's a lot of fun. Please feel free to contact me and give feedback on the success of this lesson. [|Tongue Twisters]

Here is a link to an article that discusses the importance of SLA. Classroom SLA Research & Second Language Teaching by Patsy M. Lightbrown []

Graphic novels are proven to help with SLA in ESL students. Below is a graphic novel of the book __The Hobbit.__ Your high school students will enjoy reading this graphic novel and they will better understand this classic book by Tolkien.

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