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Home : 2007 : Sep : 12
Besides all the great tips of advice about teaching this student survival skills, vocabulary related to the classroom, school, etc., it is necessary to start developing her reading, since this skill is what is going to help her be successful in any subject. Unfortunately, it appears that she doesn't have any knowledge of sounds in her native language that would transfer into the English, so she needs to start learning the "sounds" of the letters instead of the name of them. Knowing the sounds will help her to start forming word families, develop her phonemic awareness, etc. Teach her as you would teach a non-reader English speaker , maybe the kinder or first grade teachers can give you some materials, emergent readers, sight words, etc., that they use with their students. I use the Reading A to Z website, where I can find leveled and guided reading books (that you can print). I usually start with level aa, which is basically pictures and one or two words per page. Also, I teach them the most used sight words that they would see in most books.
I teach ESL and I have been teaching some students from Somalia lately, and that's what I have been doing with them to get them to read as soon as possible. We communicate with lots of gestures, picture cards, and many, many smiles :). They are learning so fast and they feel so proud when they can read these little books!
Good luck!
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