Creating Authentic Writing Materials for English Language Learners
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Dr. Connie Hahne, an English language fellow in Santiago, Chile, shares authentic writing strategies for engaging students through experiential learning and effective classroom practices. She emphasizes the importance of bell work, creating meaningful vocabulary word walls, and utilizing local resources to enhance writing experiences. The webinar also includes interactive polls and encourages teachers to incorporate innovative learning strategies in their classrooms.
Creating Authentic Writing Materials for English Language Learners
- 1. Welcomes to RELO Andes Webinars
- 2. Authentic Writing Strategies Dr. Connie Hahne
- 3. Dr. Connie Hahne Santiago, Chile
- 4. • Dr. Connie Hahne is the current English Language Fellow in Santiago, Chile. Her home state is Arizona where she taught kindergarten through university over that last 20 years. Throughout her career she has taught English and Spanish to language learners of all ages, economic backgrounds, and cultures. • Dr. Hahne’s undergraduate degree is in K-12 English as a Second Language and Bilingual Education with an emphasis in Spanish and a Master’s degree is in Educational Leadership and Administration, with a focus on Sheltered English teaching methodologies and multiculturalism. Her doctorate is in Educational Leadership and Innovation.
- 5. Poll Question • Who are your students? – A: I teach grades K-4 – B: I teach grades 5-8 – C: I teach grades 9-12 – D: Higher Education.
- 6. Who are your students? – Age – Grade level – Demographics – Interests
- 7. Local Resources –Play ground –Cafeteria – Parks –Museums – etc.
- 8. Use writing to engage students… Bellwork is a great classroom management tool. – It is an activity that students complete as soon as they walk into the class before the ‘bell’ actually rings for the lesson. – It sets the scene for the lesson – Students know they enter the classroom they have a writing activity – It gets their minds warm and ready to learn
- 11. Building Meaningful Vocabulary Word Wall Encourage students to find English in their environments and bring it back to the classroom. • Words may be related to the curriculum unit or found words students want to know the meaning. • Use the words in bell work and everyday writing activities.
- 12. Experiential Learning for Writing Experiential learning is the process of learning through experience, and is more specifically defined as "learning through reflection on doing“(Kolb, 1984)
- 13. POLL Question • How often do you provide experiential opportunities for learning in and outside of your classroom? A: Every day B: One a week C: Once per unit or thematic unit D: Never. There is no time for extra “stuff”
- 14. Using the five senses to report on an experiential event.
- 15. Unit on Dinosaurs Our class became archaeologists….
- 16. Outside of the classroom scavenger hunts… • This can be used with any unit you are on… • Students collect artifacts from the environment… • Bring them to class… • Discuss and write about them using the target vocabulary of the unit… • Older students can use their cell phones, take pictures and create PPT presentations of videos to share with the class.
- 17. Human Prepositions • In groups, students create signs with a preposition written on it. • Students illustrate the preposition by “acting” out the preposition and taking a picture. • Students print out/or use media and write sentences to explain the preposition. • Students share with the class.
- 18. Food and Transition Words • Students form groups with friends. • The decide on a recipe they want to make. • The make a step by step cooking video.(First, second, then, finally etc.) • They show the video in class. No technology? Have students prepare at home and present live in class.
- 19. Process Writing Food and Transition Words • Students in the audience write the process they see in the food preparation videos. • Students compare their writing with a partner after the presentation to see if they missed any steps.
- 20. Rainy Day Idea
- 21. How could you apply or modify these ideas for your classroom? 1. Bell work 2. Word Wall 3. Experiential Learning for Writing 4. Five Senses writing 5. Scavenger hunts 6. Food and Transition words 7. Archeologist 8. Human prepositions 9. Food and transition words 10.Snow ball writing
- 22. Final Poll Question • I would use these ideas in my classroom to make learning for students: • A: More interactive • B: Student focused • C: Meaningful and Authentic • D: I will not use them.
- 25. Thanks for joining us! Check us out next month ▫ Presenter: Kati Castro, Trent Hagar ▫ Location: San Miguel, El Salvador and Managua, Nicaragua ▫ Topic: Considering Cultural Celebrations in the English Classroom ▫ Date: March 21, 2017 ▫ Time: 1500-1600