Calgary Teachers’ Convention 2023 (Thursday PM)

“I want to intentionally plan for my English Language Learners”: Moving Research into Practice ​

Literacy Centres

Two Question to Consider

  • How do we intentionally plan for ELL students? 
  • How can we take what we are doing usually in our classroom and intentionally plan (adapt) for our ELL students? 

Audiobooks

https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/

https://www.storybookscanada.ca/

https://indigenousstorybooks.ca/

https://storylineonline.net

Other Literacy Centres

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nNwE0QMzEUyNhliKIgTn-PVRe08nHmp6/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103348829737100206292&rtpof=true&sd=true

Older Learners (Literacy Activities)

https://archive.nytimes.com/learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/10-intriguing-photographs-to-teach-close-reading-and-visual-thinking-skills/

https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/subjects/english-language-arts-and-literacy/reading-in-hss/


Beginner English Language Learners (Brainstorm)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tx18mrMsZZcZM7N5GtDa-eXiQLepPk8z?usp=sharing


Countertext (Accurso & Mizell, 2021)

Sample Texts

The History of Immigration in Canada (Genre of School Text)​

Where are you from?: To be a Canadian is to accept that the story has more than one thread, more than one character, more than one point of view (Globe and Mail) (see below)

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Place-Based Literacies

Book Creator App

PowerPoint Slides