In Class EAL Support Grade 3

Miss Anita's students and Mr. James's students continued to learn about the 5 daily routines that help them develop their reading and writing skills. Every day our students have to:

• Read to self;
• Read to someone;
• Do some word work;
• Listen to reading;
• Work on their writing. 

Our English language learners are engaged in the same routines and their favourite is listening to reading. I usually support them during their word work and writing time. Often my students choose to practice reading with me first before they read with one of their friends. 

Shintaro is reading to himself.

Lucas and Shintaro are reading to each other and Miss Mom monitors the routine.

Gunn is listening to reading.

In Miss Anita's  and Miss Lisa's classrooms our students created beautiful poems, using metaphors and similes. We revised what a simile and what a metaphor was and created a shared poem for students to use as a model. Next, the children were given time to create their own poems independently and finally we had a sharing session on the carpet. Lots of our students were proud of their poems and had an intention to publish them on their blogs.

Miss Lisa's students enjoyed sharing their poems.

Miss Lisa's students revised their unit vocabulary and practiced various spelling strategies.

Constanza, Yuzuka and Shawn worked together to improve their spelling skills.

Mr. James's EAL beginners played a lot of various spelling games and their favorite was Bingo with sight words.

Gunn id the winner!!!