Category: English Language Learning

Below is a fairy tale your child may enjoy listening to this week. Please see the guidelines/instructions in the post dated May 7.

You can find them by clicking on English Language Learning in the categories section on the right hand side of this page to read those instructions.

The picture prompts for before and after viewing ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’ are attached.  Click here: The Tortoise and the Hare

 

I hope you enjoy this language activity!

 

Below is a fairy tale your child may enjoy listening to this week. Please see the guidelines/instructions in the post dated May 7.

You can find them by clicking on English Language Learning in the categories section on the right hand side of this page to read those instructions.

The picture prompts for before and after viewing ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ are attached.  click here: Little Red Riding Hood Pictures

I hope you enjoy this language activity!

Below is a fairy tale your child may enjoy listening to this week. Please see the guidelines/instructions in the post dated May 7.

You can find them by clicking on English Language Learning in the categories section on the right hand side of this page to read those instructions.

The picture prompts for before and after viewing ‘The 3 Little Pigs’ are attached.  click here: The 3 Little Pigs Pictures

I hope you enjoy this language activity!

Below is a fairy tale your child may enjoy listening to this week. Please see the guidelines/instructions in the post dated May 7.

You can find them by clicking on English Language Learning in the categories section on the right hand side of this page to read those instructions.

The picture prompts for before and after viewing ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ are attached.  click here: Goldilocks and the Three Bears pictures 

I hope you enjoy this language activity!

Below is a fairy tale your child may enjoy listening to this week. Please see the guidelines/instructions in the post dated May 7.

You can find them by clicking on English Language Learning in the categories section on the right hand side of this page to read those instructions.

The picture prompts for before and after viewing ‘Little Red Hen’ are attached.  click here: Little Red Hen pictures

The pictures match this version of the story.

This is the traditional version of the same story. The animals are different.

I hope you enjoy this language activity!

 

Below is a fairy tale your child may enjoy listening to this week. Please see the guidelines/instructions in the post dated May 7.

You can find them by clicking on English Language Learning in the categories section on the right hand side of this page to read those instructions.

The picture prompts for before and after viewing ‘Three Billy Goats Gruff’ are attached.  click here: Three Billy Goat Gruff pictures

I hope you enjoy this language activity!

Below is a fairy tale your child may enjoy listening to this week. Please see the guidelines in last week’s post.

Click on English Language Learning in the categories section on the right hand side of this page to read the instructions in the first Fairy Tale post from May 7.

The picture prompts for before and after viewing ‘Cinderella’ are attached  click here: Cinderella pictures

I hope you enjoy this language activity!

If we were still physically going to school, I would continue to read to my kindergarten ELL students a story every lesson. We would continue to be learning about the features of a story such as the characters, setting, plot, and the problem and solution. Before reading, we would look at the title and picture walk through the book and make our predictions about what will happen. After reading we would check our predictions and then do an activity. Children would be practicing their listening and speaking skills while developing more vocabulary.  In Term 3, my plan was to read some fairy tales and fables.

Your classroom teacher has prepared lots of amazing learning opportunities for child. If there is time after doing their assigned work, your child may like to listen to a fairy tale or fable and do an activity that helps with the sequencing of events and the retelling of a story. I have attached a page with 6 pictures.

click here – The Lion and the Mouse

If your child likes to colour, they could colour in the pictures as a pre-reading activity. You could talk about:

• How many characters can you see?
• Where is this story taking place?
• What do you think will happen?

Instead of a read aloud, the child can watch this video.

After watching the video, cut the page into the 6 sections. Ask your child to put them in order. Send me a picture if you can. I would love to see it! You can send it to nicole.quin@burnabyschools.ca

Invite them to retell the story. If they are reluctant to respond you can prompt with questions and words. Here are some examples:

• What happened first and point to picture #1, second, third, fourth, fifth, finally pointing to the pictures each time.
• Or use leading phrases followed by a question for each picture, e.g. When the mouse got caught, what happened? When the mouse bit the rope …what happened next?
• They could just describe what happened in the beginning, the middle, the end of the video story.
• You could ask ‘What is the problem in the story? What is the solution (How did they solve the problem? This may still be difficult for many of the children to express in words. That’s okay.

I hope you and your child enjoy this activity!

Hello Families!

I hope you had a wonderful long weekend! As you all know, I am your child’s Music teacher here at Parkcrest. I am also one of the ELL teachers (English Language Learning Support). I wanted to let you know that I have added 2 new categories to the sidebar of this blog (if you are on a mobile device, you will find these at the very bottom of the page). One category is ELL – Sites/Games to Assist with Literacy Skills, these sites are great to support the learning of all learners in Kindergarten and Grade One.

The other category is Vocabulary Flashcards. In Kindergarten we want to increase the vocabulary the children have so they are better able to communicate their needs and wants with their teachers and friends at school. If your child was seeing me for ELL support when we were at school, I encourage you to take a look at these flashcards with your child if you have time. You do not need to print them off, but it would help if you could read the words to your child (while pointing to the pictures) to continue to help build their English language vocabulary.

 

I know that your teacher has signed each child up with a Raz-Kids reading account. I encourage you to try and have your child read at least one book a day (if you can), to assist with their language. There is an option for the story to be read to them, and for them to read the story. If you do not have your login and password, email your teacher and she will resend it to you.

Have a wonderful week!

Love Ms. Quin