Alexsandria Giovannangelo Blog

For this week’s blog post, I explored teaching resources for teaching Grammar to L2 learners. I teach grammar regularly to my academic English students, but I never thought about how I would adapt that instruction for English language learners. I explored Fluent U’s resources for teaching Grammar to ESL students and found it to contain lots of great ideas and resources that I wouldn’t have previously thought to explore.  The article first starts out with explaining how we can make our grammar lessons more meaningful for our ELL students. They recommend three basic principles. As someone who teaches grammar on a daily basis, I agree that these three principles are important when teaching grammar to all students; however, when teaching to ELL students, the skills can be that much more overwhelming and confusing, therefore, we need to make sure we are getting creative. 1.        Contextualize: as teachers, we need to make sure that we are not teaching grammar in isolation, and

http://eslblogs.waketech.edu/esl-english/2018/04/14/breaking-news-news-sites-useful-for-esl-students/ The article from my Google alerts that I explored this week was very interesting to me, especially since I currently try to cover current events with my Study Skills classes that I teach right now. I love integrating news because I think it is an interesting for the students, and it is a nice way to incorporate real-world events with important reading and writing skills. In the article by Myanez, she lists four news sites that are great for integrating current events into the ELL classroom. She includes the links for all four sites, which allowed me to explore them and deem whether or not they are actually sites that I would use in my classroom. I really enjoyed all of them and think that they would be a great resource for ELL students. Site 1: “Breaking News English” https://breakingnewsenglish.com/ This site provides news articles and lessons based on very update