Introduction
This WebQuest is an overview for teachers who have multilingual students within their classroom. This WebQuest will share ideas, links, and websites that will give support and lessons to teachers. Please complete this WebQuest to find answers to your questions about serving students who do not speak English as their home language.
Task
At the end of this WebQuest, you should be able to serve your bilingual students who speak Spanish as their main language at home. You will be able to print off bilingual forms that are templates for typical communication with home. You will also be able to share videos within this WebQuest that may touch your multi-lingual students who are immigrants. These videos will help you and your students to identify emotions, challenges, and ways to help them succeed in school. By the end of this WebQuest, you will have many resources you can utilize in your classroom and in planning to reach these amazing students who have so much culture and creative thinking to add to your class environment.
Process
By clicking this link, you will explore 12 standard letters that are automatically translated into Spanish. Read through all the templates and select one that you think will benefit your current classroom. Print it off and write the title of the webpage on the form so you can recall where to find these very helpful forms.
By clicking the link below, teachers and educators of any age level will be able to access many different immigrant stories. Photos, recollections, emotions and exciting details from kids' perspectives as well as after they have grown up and the challenges they recall being immigrants. This link will definitely help you gain perspective on what it is like to come to a foreign country where you do not understand the language or culture and where you are trying to navigate school and life in a new land with very limited resources or understanding of the current culture you are being thrown into.
https://immigrantstories.umn.edu/
Pronunciation can be very difficult for multi-lingual students. This link shares pronunciation dictionaries in over 200 languages. It is an online pronunciation dictionary and contributors can add to it daily. Be cautious with elementary students free reign of this site as swear words may be uploaded by the contributors. They are trying to share as many words of the current language to help people learn how to pronounce the words like that particular language.
As you present information to your students, it is important to provide visual images or cues to your students so they understand with some concrete image to refer to as you speak in a new language. This online picture dictionary will be very helpful for your multi-lingual students to grow and gain knowledge as they absorb the new language.
http://www.esolhelp.com/online-picture-dictionary.html
Every day items are listend here as well as an instant pronunciation in 24 languages. This site will help provide AUDIO and VISUAL assistance as you and your multi-lingual students begin to grasp content and you can share ideas with them and find their native language to bridge the gaps. Be sure to check it out! Once you select this link, pick a language you want to learn and they will have various categories you can learn about. More info on this will be in our challenge page of this WebQuest.
Evaluation
http://www.languageguide.org/spanish/vocabulary/winter-clothing/
Click the link above. Practice pronouncing each word as you visually see the winter clothing articles. Pronounce the word, click on the item, and get a feel for learning the new language. Select "listening challenge" at the top right of the link after you have heard all the items in Spanish. Test yourself on identifying by listening to the items in that new language. Continue playing this game until you get 100 percent. If you click on the item the voice is saying, you will get a green check. If you get a red check, it is incorrect. Continue playing until you are able to hear and listen and identify the proper clothing. Once finished, you are able to move to the concluding part of the WebQuest.
Conclusion
There are MANY resources for teachers that can model how to teach English Language Learners. The links listed on the "process" page of this WebQuest will help educators to get a background knowledge and see a variety of tools to help any student succeed in aquiring skills for success in school. Below are some teachers teaching English to English Language Learners. Various lesson plan ideas, implementation, and more are included for teachers to see and hear and experience what types of lessons you will be creating to reach the kids you are presented with.
Teaching children in Asia English.
Teaching children English in Prague Kindergarten
This immersion school helps children become bilingual. This video overviews how one school in Virginia helps students and how teachers modify and differentiate instruction to help them using pictorial support. Once teachers shares her word studies with a student learning language.
Credits
In order to create this WebQuest I did a lot of research. I used my textbook for my technology in the classroom to find the links for the Process and Evaluation page.
For the images within my WebQuest, I used clip art searches and then found these images on Google Images. The images were pasted from Google images after searching the web for the pictures I found.
For the Conclusion page, I searched YouTube for ELOL and English language learning for elementary children.
Integrating Technology in the Classroom: Tools to meet the needs of every student by Boni Hamilton, 2015 International Society for Technology in Education ISTE.
