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Empowering ELL Students: Submergence into Safe Community and Personal Schema Theory

Understanding the psychology of foreign teens in a new city and the importance of creating a safe learning environment for ELL students. Explore ways to enhance reading comprehension through personal schema theory, emphasizing cultural awareness and empowerment in the classroom. Strategies include using newspapers, literature, and narrative storytelling to expand students' schema and provide meaningful learning experiences.

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Empowering ELL Students: Submergence into Safe Community and Personal Schema Theory

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  1. Submergence into the culture. ELL Students in the reading curriculum

  2. Safe Community • Psychology of a teen= being foreign to a city • So what about a teen who IS foreign • Safety is key • Community in a classroom • Know your ELL student; • make them feel important; know their educational level; be aware of their culture ( incorporate it). • Give them the feeling of control , choice and empowerment.

  3. Personal Schema Theory • Besides graphophonics and syntax • The processing/comprehension of text highly depends on your schema ( what you’ve learned, seen, experienced) • Lack of Cultural knowledge = lower reading comprehension ( wedding example) • May be drastically different schema ( understanding of the world and culture) but mistaken for “stupidity”

  4. Ways to develop/expand their Schema • Newspaper work • Teaches reading/writing structures • Vocabulary • Our culture, society and values • Teach a simple story narrative ( we may be used to the hero’s quest but ELL student not be) • Lead character, goal, obstacles Newspaper work

  5. Literature Use • They deserve exposure to meaningful , engaging , great American literature • Don’t demean their emotional/intellectual maturity • They don’t need to full comprehension to gain other knowledge

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