Ell students and reading in the classroom

Reaching my ELL students has always been a concern for me. I believe partly b/c I have not had much experience with teaching ELL children. This year I have been able to work with our ELL resource teacher and provide ways to help my students. Our new reading series has helped with reaching ELL students by providing leveled text and additional reading passages in several different languages. I have also been able to use posters and other visual tools to reach these students. Another really great tool I've used is bookflix by Scholastic. This is an online program that has fiction and nonfiction text. It reads the story to you while having the words displayed and then gives the student the opportunity to read it after they have listened to it. This has been a great tool for all of my students. They can't wait until it is their center time so they can listen to the stories. I will continue to find ways to help my ELL students improve their reading skills.