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I’ve see on-line that numerous teachings, together with Mrs. Bond, have college students write common emails dwelling speaking about what they’re doing in class.
This yr, I’m going to strive a model of that in my ELL Newcomers class.
Each Friday, I’m going to have them handwrite a letter of their dwelling language to their mother and father/guardians. Right here’s the template in English I’d like them to make use of (I’ll be translating it into all my college students’ dwelling languages).
My plan is to ask the guardian/guardian to ask college students at the least one query in regards to the content material of the letter, have the scholar write at the least one of many questions down on the backside of the letter, after which have the guardian/guardian signal it (or, if the guardian is abroad and so they simply learn it to them and spoke, word that on the letter). If that’s going to be the case often in some conditions, these college students would have the choice of writing an e-mail.
I’m probably not positive how properly that is going to work. In some methods, it’s a model of the Retrieval Observe Pocket book I periodically use. The letter dwelling template has college students share essentially the most fascinating issues they discovered in every of their courses, amongst different issues.
I may also have college students share in small teams what they’ve written.
Any options for the way I can enhance the percentages of this working properly?