1. Effective Teaching Strategies for English Language Learners Three Different Perspectives by Jennifer Wheeler

2. Teachers Perspectives • Gestures and visual cues • Repetition and opportunities for practicing skills and using new language often • Use of objects, real props, and hands-on materials • Multi-sensory approaches

3. Most Important Instructional Strategies Direct teaching and learning of vocabulary through listening, seeing, reading, and writing in short time segments Specific informal assessments based on curriculum (Curriculum-Based Probe) Fluency building (high frequency words) Tactile vocabulary development steps Combining kinesthetic and phonemic awareness Least Important Instructional Strategies Using a book on tape as support Acting out a story Oral sharing and discussion on a topic related to the reading Predicting what is going to happen in the story based on the title, headline, illustration, or initial sentence or paragraph Visualization of a story or drawing a scene of a story Students Perspectives

4. International Perspectives • Demonstration • Choral Drill • Look and Say • Pictorial and Verbal Illustration • Association • Questioning • Narration or Storytelling • Read and Say

5. Bibliography • Facella, M.A., Rampino, K.M., & Shea, E.K. (2005). Effective Teaching Strategies for English Language Learners. Bilingual Research Journal, 29 (1), 209-221. • Shyyan, V., Thurlow, M., & Liu, K. (2005). Student Perceptions of Instructional Strategies: Voices of English Language Learners with Disabilities (ELLs with Disabilities Report 11). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, National Center on Educational Outcomes. • Piller, B., & Skillings, M. J. (2005, December). English Language Teaching Strategies Used by Primary Teachers in One New Delhi, India School [Electronic version]. TESL-EJ, 9 (3), 1-23. Retrieved April 13, 2009, from http://tesl-ej.org/ej35/cf.pdf