Welcome to my collection of resources, experiences, and advice for launching and growing a quality two-way immersion bilingual program. I am deeply committed to bilingualism and biliteracy for every child and firmly believe that this approach is key for preparing traditionally underserved English Language Learners for short and long term academic, cognitive, and sociocultural success. My personal mission as an educator is to do everything I can to close the achievement gap and to provide every student with an excellent college prep education--particularly ELLs. If you're looking to launch something similar, or simply want ideas and resources for your bilingual classroom, I want to help in any way I can!

Thursday, September 16, 2010

TFA Literacy Seminar 1: Balanced Literacy

I agreed to serve as this year's literacy seminar leader for Teach For America's new corps members here in the RGV--I'm really excited to get back to helping in this way.  I love staying closely to connected to TFA and to CMs here in the Valley.

While these seminars are not specific to dual language or bilingual classrooms, they are equally applicable to every elementary classroom.  I want to post the resources I find/create for each of these sessions in case they're helpful to anyone else!

SESSION 1: BALANCED LITERACY
Session Presentation (with active hyperlinks for video clips) via Google Docs
Session Agenda
Session Reading Assignment (TFA Elementary Literacy Text, Chapter 8)
Session Guided Notes Template
F&P Literacy Framework
Guided Reading Lesson Plan Samples & Template
Session Exit Slip
Balanced Literacy Online Resources (collection of video clips, photos, articles, books, etc)
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