Dual language classroom

Are you a new Dual language teacher? Welcome! I hope you'll find this tips helpful! This post may contain affiliate links. It might seem obvious, duh I'm a teacher of course I have to be patient! It is so different when you have a room full of kiddos who are learning a language. You will give directions and some students will give you a blank stare because they have no idea what just happened. Let me tell you, when teaching language learners, you will have to find the patience you didn't…

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Six powerful professional development books books that every bilingual teacher should read to enhance their pedagogy engage students effectively, and cultivate a thriving bilingual classroom.

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Laura - Learning Bilingually on Instagram: “EL PUENTE 🌉 BRIDGING anchor chart - a way to explicitly show students how to bridge the languages and what aspects we should be looking at…”

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As a dual language teacher, you know the challenges of providing a comprehensive learning experience for your students. The lack of appropriate resources can leave you feeling unprepared and hinder your ability to create an engaging bilingual classroom environment. That’s why in this blog post, we will explore five essential bilingual classroom must haves that every dual language teacher needs to feel set up for success and prepared to empower their students.

Bilingual classroom decor. Center or station posters for the bilingual English-Spanish or Dual Language Classroom for your back to school classroom decor. English words are in blue and Spanish words are in red, for those following the Gomez & Gomez model. It includes 31 center signs to label your learning stations and cards for the pocket chart.

Here a few pictures of my dual language classroom last year. These were taken in March. It was my first year in Dual Language and what a learning experience it was. It takes alot of hard work but when you see what it does for your students it is all worth it.

I previously posted on some of the first lessons I did in the Dual Language classrooms throughout our building at the beginning of the year to introduce myself and get acquainted with the classes. One of the lessons you may remember that I did with the intermediate grades was based on a poem expressing the benefits of being bilingual. Feel free to view this previous post if you haven't already for a bit of background here. Last week, one of the second grade teachers asked if I could do this…

If you teach Spanish reading to beginning readers in the USA more than likely you are expected to teach high frequency words. Here are 3 things you may want to keep in mind when teaching these words: 1. Spanish high frequency words are not sight words. Sight words in English, are words that usually cannot be decoded phonetically or 'sounded out'. Because of this, we teach children to recognize them by 'sight’ that is, to memorize them. Spanish however, is a mostly phonetic language, words…

A blog about teaching 4th grade reading and writing in a dual language classroom.

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I love using cognates to help empower my older newcomers to access high-level vocab! (They are all Spanish-speakers right now) Explicit teaching of the patterns also increases their metalinguistic awareness! #ELLs #ELLchat

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