Received: from yarra.vicnet.net.au (yarra.vicnet.net.au [203.10.72.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA20218 for <NIFL-ESL@LITERACY.NIFL.GOV>; Sat, 29 Mar 1997 20:50:02 -0500 (EST) From: carlrw@vicnet.net.au Received: from [203.10.73.130] (ppp130.vicnet.net.au [203.10.73.130]) by yarra.vicnet.net.au (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id LAA23888 for <NIFL-ESL@LITERACY.NIFL.GOV>; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 11:51:25 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199703300151.LAA23888@yarra.vicnet.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 13:05:20 +1100 To: NIFL-ESL@LITERACY.NIFL.GOV Subject: letter name pronunciation Status: RO Content-Length: 911 Lines: 24 Hi Abbie! On 29th March you wrote: >Hi. Once you start thinking about it, opportunities for spelling and >numbers will leap out at you. For example, when we talk about food, I >dictate a recipe (in lower levels, just the numbers; in higher, the words >too) or a shopping list. Around Thanksgiving we often talk about native >Americans and I dictate names of tribes and numbers of people in them. >There's lots of stuff like that in the World almanac... Olympic sports and >medal winners, whatever. Abbie Tom Hmmm.... yes that's a good idea! I could do that here with the names of Australian Aboriginal tribes. I suspect that most non- Aboriginal Australians know more native American tribe names than Aboriginal ones! Abbie, are your students adults? What's your class profile like? What are their language backgrounds? (This is so I can correlate strategies with student types.) Cheers, Mex Butler.
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