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Interactive Literacy Learning with Numbers
Throughout the year my Kindergarten and First Grade English as a Second Language Learners engage in practicing Literacy skills with interactive Numbers tables. I have created interactive literacy tab…
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Creating Cultural Clips - Parent Involvement Activity
In one of my English as a Second Language Parent Involvement meetings students and their families worked together to create Clips videos showcasing their culture. Families rotated through stations wi…
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The Prosody Podcast - Developing Fluency with Poetry
Developing fluency and expression when reading (prosody) is an important component of early literacy and developing language proficiency. This lesson could be used in small groups with primary learne…
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When I Grow Up Keynote
What do you want to be when you grow up? Kindergarten English as a Second Language students used Keynote to take a peek into our future. With the help of remove background, magic move, and line draw …
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Uplifting Student Voices with Podcasting
In our diverse district, we face the challenge of supporting English Learners as they navigate the four language domains: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. While we work diligently to bolste…
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Supporting First Nations languages with simple Keynote templates
I am very fortunate, in my work as an Apple Professional Learning Specialist, to work with many First Nations teachers and students, who do not speak English as their first language. I also work with…
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iCan with Clips! - Video series to support learning at home
To support my early elementary English as a Second Language students learning outside of the classroom I have created a video series called "iCan with Clips". These are simple, teaching videos rolled…
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Digital Student Data Notebooks
My Kindergarten English as a Second language students are analyzing, tracking, and reflecting upon their reading data from our state reading assessments in a digital data notebook. My students comple…
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Multimodal Vocabulary Activity Book Series
ELL early learners enjoy completing our weekly Multimodal Vocabulary books on iPad to learn new vocabulary units and practice their language domains. Teachers can download / preview the book on the b…
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Lost words! Exploring the challenges of translation
ADE Institute 2023 provided me with an insight that has had an immeasurable impact on my practice in my classroom. During Showcases, presenters spoke in their native languages, as English speakers we…
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"Can Do" Review Poetry Journal
"We Can Do it!" My ELL early learners love to chant this positive mantra daily in my classroom. We believe that we Can Do any kind of learning tasks presented by the teacher. In this "Can Do" Review …
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Using the Translate app
The focus of the Apple Distinguished Educators Institute recently was breaking down language barriers and forming new connections with colleagues. The Translate app is an incredible tool for doing th…
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Create a Reader's Theater Center with Pages
One way that my students really got excited to read, re-read and read some more was with a reader's theater center. Students collaborated as they listened to each other and played their character's r…
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Early Ed Sight Words Workbook English
Hi friends! I created a review workbook for my teachers that involve photography, markup, and voice recording for their sight words. Feel free to use, share, or manipulate! There is also a teacher gu…
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Sharing Memories with Keynote Instagram
I teach AP Spanish Language and Culture. One unit discussed is Identities. One activity that I did with the students was through the help of our Apple Specialist. We were able to use a template …
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Live Text in photos for EL
I have been working with Jim from Apple Professional Learning on how to make text more accessible to my EL students in D214. Often when I make materials, I use screenshots in pdfs but they were not r…
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Accessibility & Translation Features
I am an instructional coach & math teacher at Conant High School in D211. Today I participated in an Apple training session. We discussed accessibility and translating features on the iPad. What …
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Bilingual Seasons Resource: Markup
Use Markup on these templates to test your students' knowledge of seasonal details. Example 1: Markup the trees and area surrounding to display details of the corresponding season. Example 2: Take …
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Initial Sounds Pt. 2 / 3
Extend the previous exercise (see post Initial Sounds Pt. 1) by uploading your saved image into Keynote. Label the items in the image with text boxes and hand written labels using the Drawing tool. N…
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Initial Sounds Pt. 3 / 3
Create a class or independent project demonstrating mastery of initial sounds (Pt. 1 - 2 previously posted). Using a blank Pages template, students will complete an e-book filled with hand-drawn imag…
