“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/
Other Literacy Centres
Older Learners (Literacy Activities)
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)
Place-Based Literacies