How to design an ESL curriculum for kindergarten children?
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ESL is English as a Second Language.  At the age of 3-5, which is Preschool age, I would think there is no need of an ESL curriculum.  Preschool teaches the basics of the English Language already.  The only thing I would strongly recommend is that you speak to them strictly in proper English.  At first, they will just look at you with a blank face, but eventually, they will see how the other English speaking kids are following your specific instructions.  Then they will learn to associate certain instructions with certain behaviours and  then start to make connections between the words and its meanings.  Don't be surprised if the quiet non-English speaking students starts to tell you long detailed stories in English by the end of the year.  Children at this age absorb literally like a sponge and it will be a fun and successful experience by the end of Preschool.  I guarantee it!\nGood Luck! And my salutes to all teachers!
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There are many many many sites available on the net for us English teachers.  What I usually do when I'm searching for activities is google with the term "ESL" and then some other descriptive term that fits what I'm looking for. \n\nFor example, if I'm looking for a site that has a game that teaches my beginning-level ESL class about how to tell time, I might search on "beginning ESL time".  Believe me, you will find lots of sites that way!\n\nI'm also including the link to Dave's ESL Cafe, a well-known site of the type you're looking for.
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By teaching them something fun or something that they want to learn. This is how it is done in Kindergarten.\nFood, play, short poems (remember Seuss), Chinese things like chopsicks, noodles, mother, dad. Sing, color or draw but do not spend so much time that it will loose their attention. Take breaks for exercise.\n  See below for an interesting website.
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you could look at our national curriculum attainment targets.. but I don't think you would be any more clued up. \nI would try to put what you want in kid language ie/communication, knowledge and understanding etc, and then think about how well they have done it. \nThat way, you and they understand it.
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Here are a couple of favorites from my preschool classroom.\n\nFill a basket or any kind of container with something fun like marbles, miniature cars etc.  Have your son roll a die (use two dice as he gets older) Have him count the spots on the die and then remove that many marbles, etc. from the basket.......continue taking turns until the basket is empty\n\nCut out circles, squares and triangles from construction paper.  Cut out a different number of each shape and hide them around the room then go on a shape hunt with your son.  Once you find all of them create a large graph by laying the like shapes together vertically or horizontally.  Count how many of each you have, talk about concepts such as most and least.\n\nHave your son lay down on a large piece of paper.  Trace his body and cut out.  Talk about the different body parts and label them.  Allow him to decorate his likeness with collage materials, markers, crayons etc.\n\nRead books every day.  A way to get kids excited about reading is to create a book catterpillar or train.  Make a new segment of the caterpillar or car for the train for each new book you read.  Write the name of the book on the segment and any comments your child has about the book then add it to existing bug or train and watch it wrap around the room.  \n\nThe main thing is to be in  tune with what your child likes and gear the learning towards that.  If he likes cars count toy cars, sit on a corner and count blue cars and red cars and graph, paint with cars etc.  Don't try to push anything or teach him above his years because that's the surest way to turn him off about learning.  Good luck and have fun.
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You could try the following two websites:\nwww.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/reading/bookrepts1.html \nwww.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson109.shtml\nGood luck!
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Pay attention to the way the teacher poses questions and then adapts the students' answers into follow-up questions. Watch how children respond to questioning as well as which children the teacher focuses on the most and least. How does the teacher's attention affect students not actively involved in the exhange? (i.e. does in encourage or discourage others from attempting to get involved?)\n\nLook at the way each area of the room is set up and determine how language instruction has been integrated. Also, ask yourself how the teacher integrates language (vocabulary building, grammar and usage) into other subject lessons.\n\nI'd have to know the grade level to be more specific. Hope this helps a little.
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It all depend on the school, I've lived in Darmstad and kids started to learn a second language in Kindergarten. My son did since pre-k.
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I am a senior early childhood major.  From all my experience in the classroom working and observing, I have seen many teachers do a variety of ways as far as organizing their classroom libraries.  One classroom I was particularly impressed with was a first grade classroom of a skilled master teacher.  She had her books organized in containers by author, topic, subject, holiday, month, ect.  She had the containers labeled and the containers made it easy for the students to go-through.  This teacher also had a library stand with four shelves that she called "books of the month".  Monthly, the books in this library stand are changed to keep up with the current topics and holidays that are currently going on.  \n\nI found this to be a wonderful way to organized books.  I think your kindergarteners would find it easy to choose a book to their liking.  Good luck.
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Caligirl, I know what you are feeling, I was there once too, just starting out, I am a teacher.  \n\nI have a Multiple Subject, Single Subject in Spanish and the BCLAD.  I have taught at one time or another at all grade levels in both English and Spanish.   My assignment now is an ELD teacher, K-12.  Included in my daily schedule is a morning 1/2 hour daily pull out instruction with a small group of kindergarten kids.  This has become one of the favorite times in my daily schedule.  It took me some time to get used to it, but one of my favorite age groups now is the Kindergarten age.  So much so, that now, when I could choose to do so many different kinds of assignments for summer school, I choose to do Kindergraten review.\n\nGo with the Kindergarten assignment.  I know you are specializing in reading and are considering teaching upper grades, but there is nothing more rewarding than working with children at the Kindergarten level.  Yes, you may not want to do it for long, or perhaps for more than a year, but it is true this experience will be rewarding and respected for years to come and for future interviews.  Reading is now introduced at the kinder level and your knowledge and experise will be appreciated by parents, teachers and district staff alike AND you will get some great initial classroom experience in pre and early literacy instruction.  If this is a public school, you will probably sign up for the BTSA teacher support program providing additional training, peer support and some classroom/materials funding.\n\nGo For It, Caligirl!\n\nP.S,\nHave you ever considered looking into the Peace Corps?  I was a training coordinator for the Peace Corps once and there are some great education programs for teachers to work in now where one not only gets some great teaching experience but can help train colleagues in other countries as well while getting a good second language and culture experience.\n\nGood Luck In Your Endeavors!
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First, decide on the grammar point you want to teach.  The idea here is really to teach a concept, and then give the students a chance to APPLY it ---hence, the game every few minutes.\nSo think of it as teaching the concept, and then playing the game TO REINFORCE THE CONCEPT.  I would leave time at the end of your lesson plan to REVIEW the concepts AND the point of the games to reinforce your theme.  That would pull your lesson together nicely.  The use of skillful questions in your lesson plan is a good way to summarize, and to see if the students learned from your lesson.
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It depends on your child's individual needs and abilities. I would suggest visiting your state's education association website to see if they have Pre-Kindergarten curriculum guidelines that they use in the public school. This might be a good place to start, and you can modify these if neccessary to meet your child's needs. \n\nAs for books, I would suggest reading books to your child as a regular part of your homeschooling. To begin teaching your child to read, I recommend the awesome book, "Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum" by Marilyn Jager Adams\n\nI would also try to keep a consistent schedule and routine as much as possible, and work on coping strategies for times the routine must change, if this is an issue. \n\nGood luck and enjoy learning with your child!
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I would start with the basics, counting to 10, recognizing colors and some shapes, etc.  Also how to use crayons and simple things like that.  They will learn the rest.  Also, you may want to make sure the child is okay with sharing, authority figures besides the parents, etc.
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The best way is to relate all topics (holistic approach), for instance, depending on the age, let them do their own small books, let them do some short anecdotes using the computer, word recognition is possible to sing some songs and recognize words, let them write words in sand boxes.\n\n____________________________________\nNeed help or advise? Elektronic help online is the solution !\nMessenger: fxgonzal@hotmail.com\nCheap rates by the hour.
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I believe all should be done.  We are in a bilingual community, and I work with children, one of which is in Kindergarten right now.  They are taught to read in english in kindergarten, and to write so that they get the basics in their own language.  They are taught how to interact with each other, respect each other, share, and so on, and are still given lots of time to play.  Children are such sponges at this age for information, that I think it's great when they can be taught as much as they can.  In grade one they can take on French only classes for the rest of their school years {except for one English class a day}.  During this time they do all their classes in French, which is our second language, and learn all their subjects in French.  No English is allowed to be taught in the classrooms after the first few months of grade one.  By the time they graduate, even slow learners are bilingual.  Most are able to speak the language quite frequently by grad 6 or 8, but are completely bilingual by graduation.  I hope this helps.
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4 to start kindergarten
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These are some ideas aimed for pre-k, 1st and 2nd grade:\n*you can provide different geometrical shapes and have them sort them according to color, size, shape, etc.\n*with the same shapes have them complete a pattern you start for them ex. red circle, yellow square, red circle, yellow square, etc.\n*try looking for a game called "Tangram", I don't know if you can buy one already done or you can make your own in this site:http://www.tangram.i-p.com/\n*give students play money and have them solve problems using it.