visual cues come from students developing knowledge of letter/sound relationships and of how letters are formed what letters and words look like often identified as sounding out words Example 2- Phoneme Awareness -- Recognizing Rhyme Assessment (Klein, 2003). Instructor: Says two-three words that rhyme: fat, cat, bat Model: These words have the same sound at the end so they rhyme; cat and mop do not rhyme because their sound is different. Share: Listen to

Now we'll listen to the song while you listen for the words that are missing on your worksheets. Listen carefully and try to pick out the missing words as the song is played. We'll play the song two or three times until everyone fills in all of the blanks on their worksheets." 2. Presentation. [the presentation component of the intermediate ESL listening and speaking lesson plan consists of playing an audio recording

Persimmons Poet Li-Young Lee has written a noteworthy poem called "Persimmons," published in 1986 in a collection of poems called Rose. The poem gives the reader a serious glance into part of the life of a second-generation Asian-American who encountered troubling cultural challenges along the way. The poem speaks to how Asian-Americans were treated and were misunderstood during the time Lee lived in Pennsylvania. It also speaks to the difficulty of

Teaching and Learning Through Using Stories in the Young Learner Classroom - Annotated Bibliography In my research paper, I intend to analyse the methodologies and implications of using stories as a vital tool for young learners in a class room. To support my study, I have studied five papers that are either from a book or from a journal. The first and the fourth paper summarized here talks about how stories

Climate of Creativity: Teaching English to Young Learners Through the Art of Drama Several learning and involving learning experiences emerge for the early childhood students when both drama and movement are incorporated in the daily syllabus (Chauhan, 2004). Apart from being "fun" for majority of the kids, kinesthetic activities are capable of assisting the young students, particularly those learning the English language, improve interpretation skills, vocabulary, fluency, speech knowledge, syntactic

Picture Book Is Worth More Than a Thousand Words: Teaching ESL Students The use of picture books to teach English as a second language has been demonstrated to be quite successful. Experts in literacy attribute this to the way that pictures in the books help to fill in gaps in meaning. A fundamental consideration is that if the picture books are to be used as an aide to teaching English,