ESL Developmental Continuum P–10 – Teaching Strategies

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Teaching strategies

These teaching strategies provide a range of practical ways of supporting the English learning of ESL students. Each of the listed strategies identifies the dimension/s on which it is focused (Speaking and Listening, Reading, Writing), the ESL stages for which it is most useful, its purpose, the steps involved in using it, and how it is particularly helpful for ESL students.

Speaking and listening

• Listening cloze (PDF - 24Kb)
• Reaching a consensus (PDF - 29Kb)
• Barrier games (PDF - 19Kb)
• Dictogloss (PDF - 29Kb)
• Running dictation (PDF - 29Kb)
• Pair dictation (PDF - 37Kb)
• Language experience (PDF - 32Kb)
• Role play (PDF - 27Kb)
• Picture stories (PDF - 29Kb)
• Surveys (PDF - 20Kb)
• Tell me (PDF - 36Kb)

Writing

• Scaffolding writing using the curriculum cycle (PDF - 36Kb)
• Language experience (PDF - 32Kb)
• Dictogloss (PDF - 29Kb)
• Pair dictation (PDF - 37Kb)
• Running dictation (PDF - 29Kb)
• Deconstruction (PDF - 32Kb)
• Joint construction (PDF - 32Kb)

Reading

• Shared reading (PDF - 35Kb)
• Guided reading (PDF - 34Kb)
• Before reading (factual) (PDF - 33Kb)
• After reading (factual) (PDF - 37Kb)
• Before reading (fiction) (PDF - 30Kb)
• After reading (fiction) (PDF - 37Kb)
• Reciprocal teaching (PDF - 38Kb)
• Language experience (PDF - 32Kb)
• Running dictation (PDF - 29Kb)
• Pair dictation (PDF - 37Kb)
• Tell me (PDF - 36Kb)
• Reading to (PDF - 29Kb)