IMAGE

Tricycle (initial support towards becoming strong

I MADE A CHOICE OF GREEN. bike riders) I chose this image to represent the
GREEN IS CALMING AND STRESS- extra support that the ELLs might need in the
RELIEVING beginning in order to be successful. This support
might be in the form of:

• understanding cultural differences

STAIRS (SYMBOL)
Stairs symbolize a journey
• by identifying level of proficiency and
planning accordingly
• modeling the new language
• creating a safe learning environment
• Teach subject based language explicitly
• Providing opportunities to use ‘stretched’
language
• Allowing them to work with others who
speak the same language
• Increasing the ‘wait time’ to allow thinking
• Use ‘message abundancy’
Green Represents:

• Strong emotional correspondence

with safety
• calmness
• faith
• progress/ growth

In classroom it refers to the safe

learning environment, support and
opportunities that the teachers
provide to the ELL students while
they learn and develop their oral
Environments
language skills. This safe, calm and
comfortable environment builds up I chose this symbol to represent the
journey of the ELLs in learning the oral
for classroom
their trust and allows them to take
risks while learning social as well as
their academic language. ELL
language for the social interaction. Going
up the stairs is positive and hopeful while talk
coming down be negative, confusing, or
teachers provide the learners depressing. This is how a learner might
‘opportunities to use “stretched”
language’, ‘provide models of new
feel at times while acquiring the My CSI
language. Stairs can be taken as a link
language,’ provide opportunities to that connects the two floors. An ELL too - Sandeep Dhaliwal -
engage in quality talk that leads to ‘builds on the resources of mother
their progress in acquiring their oral tongue’ to connect to the new language.
language.
Works Cited
• Gibbons, Pauline. “Scaffolding
Language. Scaffolding
Learning: Teaching English
Language Learners in the
Mainstream Classroom.” 2015.
pp. 23 –
48.,doi:http://onq.queensu.ca/c
ontent/enforced/251981-
CONT939/Readings/Scaffoldin
g language
learning_CHAP2_GIBBONS_2
015_CONT939.pdf?ou=25198
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• http://www.arttherapyblog.com/
uimages/2011/01/color-
meanings-symbolism-chart-
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14, 2018