Educational Videos Support Your ELL Students
Author: k5blog
K-5 educational videos support your ELL students, too. When you use videos in your lessons, your ELL students are shown images and actions that are identified by their spoken word and usually accompanied by the written word, as well. Video shows what is being taught, teaches vocabulary, models processes, and can be creatively used to assess language skills and content objectives.
Since elementary-level videos have more “elementary” vocabulary descriptions and cover all content areas, they can be used to teach language and content at the same time. In fact, by using content to teach language, your lessons can be more interesting for all of your students and save you time.
By using the action and images in video programs and clips, your ELL students can at least have an idea about what is being taught. They may not know the English words yet, but they may know or identify the content so they can access their language in their thought processes and begin to translate to English.
Since one of the main designs of K to 5 videos is vocabulary, it is a great resource to use to teach the meaning of words. Students get to see an image or an action or an event, and then hear the words and describing sentences spoken in English. They also get explanations and connections to other ideas through spoken words and images that can help them develop concepts in English that meet the learning objectives of your lessons.
Your ELL students are also learning cultural values and norms at the same time as they are learning English. Video programs can be used to model behaviors. Programs about community rules and laws can show your students behavioral norms in their new country and at the same time learn the words in their new language. Health videos can show students about personal hygiene and hand washing. Science videos can be used to model experiment procedures so when the experiment begins, they have had a visual introduction to the process. What you can’t explain with words you can show with pictures.
Get creative with your assessment. Re-playing video clips can be a great tool. You can use it to check for understanding during your lesson. By using video clips to offer your ELL students multiple choice answers, and even some explanation in their own language, they can have success in learning by giving them a different form to show what they know when they can identify images that they may not have the words for—yet!
Since elementary level videos have more basic vocabulary and cover a wide range of content objectives, educational videos can teach language and content at the same time. The best part is that both your ELL students AND your English-speaking students develop their vocabulary and learn about the world.
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