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01 May

Keep the Charts Alive!

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
Doesn’t it feel good? You’re implementing the Bridge! Your students have experience transferring vocabulary across languages! They are applying their academic vocabulary from one unit in one language to literacy in the other language. They are even consciously comparing and contrasting their two languages through your guided contrastive analysis! (OK, maybe you’re just doing parts of this, but remember every step toward full implementation is a good step!) Getting the process of the Bridge going in your classroom is such Read More...
06 Apr

Link to TWI in the News!

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
Hello Biliteracy World! I just wanted to share some brief news footage from our Two-Way Immersion Program! One of our local stations found out about the program, and - looking for some positive coverage on culture and inclusion - asked to interview us. We love that we were able to contribute something positive to the news. :) KOLO 8's news coverage of Washoe County School District TWI Look for my next blog coming mid-late April! I'll be writing about how we use Read More...
28 Feb

Implementing the Bridge in the Two Teacher Model (and When You’re Not Bilingual): Part 2, Building a Bridge

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher, Uncategorized
Building a Bridge  Several people have asked me to break down the process of how my Spanish teaching partner – Bebi (or Señorita Yossen) – and I plan for and implement a week of language transfer and contrastive analysis, also known as the Bridge, in our two-teacher model. I hope this helps! Here’s a secret – it doesn’t happen on the Friday before.   It has taken us five years to get to this point - and it continues to morph, improve, and Read More...
28 Nov

Implementing the Bridge in the Two Teacher Model (and When You’re Not Bilingual) – Part 1

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
The Bridge – it’s been an area of growth for me since I began teaching in Two-Way Immersion five years ago. For a while it really intimidated me. I wasn’t sure what to do, when to do it, or how to do it. It was definitely an aspect of teaching unique to teaching for biliteracy, so coming from a monoliteracy setting I had never heard of it before. AND…. I am not fluent in Spanish! All of these circumstances Read More...
21 Oct

Supporting Monolingual Families

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
  "I only speak English. How can I support my child in a Two-Way Immersion program?" We get this question all the time. Both our monolingual English-speaking and monolingual Spanish-speaking families are nervous about providing their children support in the other language.   Because I am a monolingual English speaker, many of the monolingual English speaking parents have felt comfortable sharing their concerns and questions with me.  My partner, a native Spanish speaker, often gets very similar concerns and questions from Spanish Read More...
19 Sep

Collaboration in a Two-Teacher Model

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
I am extremely lucky.  I have the best “work wife” out there. We have very similar teaching philosophies, approaches to parents, passion for learning and reflecting, love of language…even our daughters are the same age! And while I might be nine inches taller than her, I lovingly refer to her as my “Latina Twin”.  I am the English teacher in a two-teacher model of our Two-Way Immersion program. My teaching partner, Bebi, and I do not share a classroom. We have Read More...
15 Jul

Literacy Improvement Series: The Myth of the Literacy Block

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
Does this look familiar?   This is the sample schedule from a typical monolingual schedule. The content (math, science, social studies) and language (English Language Arts) blocks are independent from each other. The time allotted to each subject is either school- or district-mandated, and teachers are expected to spend the given amounts of time on each subject. I have spent the last four months sharing with you some of the most effective literacy strategies I use in my Two-Way Immersion kindergarten and Read More...
06 Jul

Literacy Improvement Series: LEA in the Kindergarten Classroom

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
Have you thought of how you can use the Language Experience Approach (LEA) with your students? I promised in last month's blog to share how I use LEA with my kindergarten class. If you missed that blog, check it out here for a review on what LEA is and why I love it so much! Also feel free to check out my other blogs in this Literacy Improvement Series, which explain how I, the English teacher in a Two-Way Immersion program, Read More...
16 Jun

Literacy Improvement Series: Language Experience Approach

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
I hope this blog finds you well! This is the fourth installment of my Literacy Improvement Series as related to the English side of a Two-Way Immersion Program. However, I hope you know that these strategies can be adapted for teaching and learning in any language – or in a monolingual English class as well! See my past blogs on Oracy Development, Vocabulary, and Phonics for more ideas. I’m so excited to share one of my favorite strategies with you Read More...
15 May

Literacy Improvement Series: Phonics – Dictado

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How I Fit In: Teaching for Biliteracy as a Monolingual English Teacher
Welcome to part three of my Literacy Improvement Mini-Series, with examples from the English side of my kindergarten and first grade TWI classes (In our 50/50 model, I teach first grade in the morning while kindergarten is in Spanish, then we switch. Read more about the program in which I teach and who I am here.). If you'd like to see the previous posts in this series, check out the Oracy Development blog as well as the Vocabulary: When and How blog. This contribution: Phonics: Dictado Me: Read More...
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