Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g98Jj2X08949; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:45:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:45:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20021008194014.9931.qmail@web14305.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "B. Detering" <openroadak@yahoo.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1306] Re: ESL Parenting question X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O Content-Length: 2220 Lines: 64 Dear Colleen, My suggestion is to use very basic children's books and stories that have lots of repetition and pictures that allow you to teach vocabulary without translating. The "The old lady who wasn't afraid of anything immediatly pops to mind." Sorry if the title isn't exact I'm translating from Spanish. Also Children's TV workshop did great videos to get parent's into chatting and looking at books with very young children and the video is 1/2 Spanish and 1/2 English. "Using Folktales" by Cambridge University Press has been endlessly useful in my ESL classes. Berestain Bears books address alot of parenting questions/needs. In some of my classes I have asked adult learners to finish writing a story that starts with "one-time when my daughter (or son) was (X) years old." This led to lots of laughs and sharing. Brenda Detering Hekab Be Biblioteca de Akumal A.C. (A bilingual Library and family Literacy Project on the Carribean coast of the Yucatan Peninsula) --- Colleen Angaiak <c_angaiak@yahoo.com> wrote: > My Even Start program is about to start a twice > weekly class -- 1 hour of parenting ed, lunch with > the > children, and 1.5 hours of ESL instruction. We have > contracted the ESL instruction with an experienced > teacher, but I will be responsible for the parenting > piece. My group is quite mixed -- several Spanish > speakers, one Chinese, one Cambodian, and some that > I > have referrals for but not concrete info. > > So my question is this: HOW do I teach parenting to > this group?? I am monolingual, and in my community, > there are not people who speak these languages > available to do the teaching. I am not new to > teaching, but I am new to both ESL and parenting > instruction, so any advice is welcome! Thanks. > > Colleen Angaiak > Even Start Coordinator > Literacy Council of Alaska > 1949 Gillam Way, Box E > Fairbanks, AK 99709 > 907/456-5013 – phone > 907/456-1657 – fax > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
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