As we continue talking about English Learners in the mainstream classroom this month, I wanted to bring back a previous episode from last year that is very relevant to our topic.

With vocabulary being the main component of learning a language, this episode is all about how to pre-teach vocabulary when you are a regular education teacher. 

Pre-teaching vocabulary is very important to an English learner student. If the student does not understand the word, they will not be able to understand the content. There are 3 tiers of words we talk about in EL instruction. 

What you will hear about in this episode:

• What vocabulary pre-teaching is
• The reasons why it is so important to pre-teach vocabulary in the mainstream classroom
• The steps that can be taken to pre-teach vocabulary
• How pre-teaching vocabulary will benefit all students not just the language learners

Related Episodes:

• Episode 61 - Three tips for classroom teachers with ESL newcomers
• Episode 62 - 4 Strategies for teaching math to ESL students
• Episode 63 - How to grade ELs in the mainstream classroom

Resources Mentioned:

• The ESL Teaching Roadmap – membership community for middle and high school ESL/ELL teachers. As a thank you for listening, use code ESLPODCAST for 10% off when you join. 
• Simply Ieva ESL Teachers Pay Teachers Store
• Numbers and number words worksheet for ESL students
• Classroom teacher’s ESL survival checklist 
• Episode 35 - What are ILPs and what to include in them 

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