ELLs in Kindergarten: Ontario PDF

• Play Based Learning Essentials
• Learn English: ELL Students Can Read Confidently in Kindergarten
• ​All Together English - ESL for Young Kids

• Preschool for ELLs : strategies for working with ELLs
• Supporting ELLs in Preschool : the importance using Home languages at school
• Engaging Parents of English-Language Learners in Kindergarten

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ORAL

Students need to listen and speak every day. Teachers need to find ways to model and illicit speech. Accepting First language expression, learning a word of 2 of the language (Greetings/ thank you...) and using it alongside English, and teaching specific words, phrases and sentences are excellent ways to start!

READING

Reading begins with loving use of books and text! Use books to look for items, letters and sounds, to discover questions and answers using the 5 Ws, and to play with intonation, cadence, accents, and more... Invite parents to read bilingual storybooks to your class and watch your students fill with pride!
8 Strategies for Preschool ELLs' Language and Literacy Development

WRITING

Write something, anything every day! Make it colourful! Make it 3D and kinesthetic! Make it interesting!  One of my favourite places to find fund printables for little ones and ideas for crafty writing projects is Enchanted Learning!