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Instructional Strategies for ELLs: A Graphic Organizer Pre-Emergent Instructional Strategies
Content Area

Strategy and Description

Justification

Speaking and Listening

Visual & Auditory Prompting.

Enabling learners recognize, by means


This strategy enables students to

of visual and auditory means, words


combine visual and auditory

(heard and spoken) in order to


recognition skills in multiple ways.

reproduce correctly in a variety of


Essentially, learners are exposed to

everyday, conversational contexts.


a variety of simple visual auditory



materials (e.g. magazine pictures,



magnetic boards, phones, etc.).



Notably, role playing and dress-ups



are important activities (“Pre-



Emergent Listening/Speaking,”



n.d.)


Reading

Labeling & Naming. This strategy

Developing a basic vocabulary


is centered on a basic recognition

repertoire. Helping learners establish


of pictures shown to learners in

visual and auditory associations


different in-print material. The

between in-print and spoken/sung


learners are asked to name a picture

words. Developing an early skill of


or reproduce words or short song

combining visual literacy, reading


lines in a paced and patterned way.

ability and speech recognition.


Typically, book covers and songs


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are used for visual and auditory



recognition (“Pre-Emergent



Reading/Print Awareness,” n.d.).


Writing

Art & Creativity. This strategy

Helping pre-emergent learners, of none-


applies a range of art activities and

to-rudimentary knowledge of English,


creative routines. By combining

adapt art and creative activities to


simple art activities (e.g. drawing)

learning processes. Encouraging


and more sophisticated ones (e.g.

learners acquire learning skills in a risk-


media production), using

free and enjoyable learning context.


appropriate art material (e.g. gel



pens, crayons, adapted stamps,



paper, etc.), learners adapt artistic



activities, each at her own pace, to



language learning processes (“Pre-



Emergent Writing,” n.d.).


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Emergent Instructional Strategies





Content Area

Strategy and Description

Justification

Speaking and Listening

Recitation & Questions. This

Developing speaking and listening skills


strategy enables learners to put

for emergent learners by combining


into practical use reading skills by

auditory skills using a variety of reading


reproducing reading passages out

routines and follow-up questions.


loud. Conversely, students are

Ensuring learner properly recognize and


given different opportunities to

understand simple conversations in natural


interrupt speakers in order to ask

conversational contexts.


questions about, say, one or more



events in a story played or read



out loud. This strategy involves a



variety of activities, including but



not limited to, role plays,



storytelling and using gestures



(“Emergent Listening/Speaking,”



n.d.)


Reading

Reading Strategically. This

Enabling learners to capture general


strategy is centered on eliciting

information about reading material.


strategic reading methods in and

Enabling learners to reproduce, in own


for learners. Specifically, learners

account, reading material in clear and


are asked to invoke prior

comprehensive way.


knowledge, name reading


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material information (e.g. title,



author, illustrator, etc.) and, after



reading, to give a succinct



account of reading material



(“Reading strategies by level,”



n.d.)


Writing

Art & Creativity. This strategy

Creating meaning by visual association.


adopts a range of art and creative

Emphasizing writing as an essential skill


activities to establish meanings.

to communicate ideas in different media.


By reproducing, in writing,



pictures learners see, learners



associate meanings to different