Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id eAT7R7914876; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:27:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:27:07 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <F186fkNsjUHQHh2wLCV00006cf5@hotmail.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Eileen Walsh" <eibhlinwalsh@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5340] Re:Students teaching vocabulary X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 2154 Lines: 46 Dear Loren, The photo dictionary sounds like a wonderful idea. It sounds challenging and engaging. >From: Loren McGrail <lmcgrail@mindspring.com> >Reply-To: nifl-esl@nifl.gov >To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> >Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5296] Re:Students teaching vocabulary >Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:54:10 -0500 (EST) > >Dear Heide, Susan and others, > >Heide's post about personal dictionaries has prompted me to share with >you Project Focus' photo dictionary project. As part of our English >literacy and civic education project, we are creating a bilingual >photo dictionary. The dictionary will use the English Alphabet and >will be accompnaied by a photograph,taken by a learner,illustrating >that letter. Some pictures will represent objects while others will >represent concepts like "Thanks" or "Respect". I have also shared an >adapted sign language with my students so each letter will also be >accompanied with a student signing that letter. We are experimenting >with cutting out letters to create a kind of "zine" look which will >also show beginning learners how differnet letters can look in >different type faces. > >Our models for this photo- dictionary come from Alma Flor Ada's >farmworker's bilingual dictionary called "Gathering the Sun" and Wendy >Ewald's Spanish alpabet project done through the Center for >Documenatary Studies with elementary ESOl Latino kids here in Durham, >North Carolina. We hope to finish the project by the end of December >and put it up on the web at Casa Multicultural's website sometime >early next year. All of the students will have a printed copy of the >dictionary but we will also publish it on the web for others to get a >copy and have access to it. > >This photo=dictionary will be followed by a curriculum guide that will >include more details about who the students were and some of the >activities we used that combined teaching English and making photos. >-- >Loren McGrail >lmcgrail@mindspring.com _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
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