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**Enhancing English Language Learning in Elementary Classrooms**
Welcome to the Category 2 discussion page!

The required readings for this class are in your //Enhancing English Language Learning in Elementary Classrooms Study Guide".// Please read pages 86-117 "Writers' Workshop and Children Acquiring English as a Non-Native Language" and pages 159-172 "Integrating Language and Content Instruction: Strategies and Techniques".

On the discussion tab post your personal reflections for each article using these questions: 1. What were 3 points that you found significant in relation to the ELLs in your classroom or to ELLs that you have worked with previously? 2. How does the information in this article reflect the 3 principles of sheltered instruction? Please be specific. 3. What are you doing already that is reflected here? Give specific examples. 4. How can you apply the information in the chapter to modify your current instructional practice? Give specific examples.

Things to keep in mind for interactive online discussions:
 * Reference the chapter you are discussing in the beginning of each posting.
 * First post your reflective response to the questions for each chapter.
 * Read what other online participants have written about the readings.
 * Comment on the responses of at least 2 other participants for each reading. Reflect in writing what they have written. Then add your own thoughts and suggest additional information or strategies. Each response should be at least a paragraph in length.
 * Ideally the dialogue should continue back and forth, as a professional conversation, informed by educational reading and experiences, with contributions from a variety of participants.