Day 3: •What strategies does the teacher use to support students who are English learners?

I am helping in a 5th grade class.  One strategy the teacher used while I was there was reading out loud.  There was a book that all of the students were following along as she read out loud.  This strategy does help support the students who are English learners because it shows how fun reading can be.  Another strategy that was used while I was there was oral language development.  I listened to a student read out loud and then proceed to retell what had happened.  I had to ask him questions to make sure he understood what he had read.  I had to do this process with 2 different students 2 different times.  It was interesting to see how different the students were when reading the words and their answers. 

I went over the students assignment with them as a class.  I would read the instructions and then the whole question before picking a student to tell me the answer.  I strategy I used was exaggerate intonations at times and made sure I talked slowly.  The students were able to know that the right answer was and all were able to understand the assignment.  There was a math test on this particular day.  I helped a few students on a back table with any help they requested.  I was able to go through each problem and make sure they understood.  There was one student in particular who was able to understand much easier with someone being one on one.

I used what I learned in class about English Learners and these 2 websites to write this post:
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/strategies-teaching-english-language-learners
http://benchmarkeducation.com/educational-leader/learning-environment/supporting-english-language-learners-in-reading-and-writing.html