Episode 54: Coaching Session Part 2 - How to Teach Reading, Writing, and Phonics to Older EL Students

In today’s episode, we continue our coaching session from last week and discuss reading, writing, and phonics with ELs. For teaching literature, like Romeo and Juliet, it can be helpful to let students read in their native language first to let them access the content. You can also pre-teach vocabulary, or summarize chunks of the story and focus on key parts of the story, the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet, for example. We also discuss using novel studies to keep kids interested and engage...