This is my new favorite teaching tool!   Write and Wipe Pockets are so flexible and give students the opportunity to practice reading and writing in English!  Check out my YouTube video with lots of ideas for how to use them!

Watch my short video blog on flexible ways to use cubes in the classroom to enhance language practice and reinforce content and language learning.   This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 at 4:27 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry...

  Math is a language.  It has grammar with expressions, verbs, and sentences.  For example, a+b=c.  There are many ways that we can assist ELLs in acquiring mathematical language.  Suggestions are outlined in Cirillo, Richardson Bruna, and Herbel-Eisenmann’s 2010 article in the journal Multicultural Perspectives (http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t775653675~db=all).  As standards increasingly require...