Ideas for ELL's Celebrate the Holidays

Ideas for ELLs in Celebrating the Holidays

This article was posted at just the right time. Even though the ideas are for English Language Learners they can definitely be applied to the world language classroom as well. It has ideas on how to get students to share their own personal traditions and cultures. It even gives the idea of having the students use technology, like Fotobabble, to share their stories and pictures with their peers. I could have students each pick a country and create a presentation based on their traditions and beliefs. There are links to other NY Times articles to supplement the lessons. This can be used in any class that has ELL students as a way to help them share with the other students in the class as well as develop language proficiency.