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Using Show and Tell in the Beginning ESOL Classroom

Classroom, Purpose
To help beginning ESOL students develop speaking skills with the use of Show
and Tell.

Rationale
Show and Tell, commonly used in childhood education, can be a unique way
to help adult ESOL students develop their speaking and presentation skills.
Show and Tell might also take on a deeper meaning for adult ESOL students
who have traveled from their home country or who have moved frequently, says
Sarah Lynn, a freelance teaching trainer, materials writer, and ESOL teacher
with the Bridge Program at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. As students share personal information or objects during Show and Tell, it can help create connections in the classroom.
You can use Show and Tell as a warm-up activity—or you can expand it so it
becomes a fully developed classroom activity. Here is how you can use Show
and Tell with students. The end of this article also includes ideas on expanding
Show and Tell for use with higher-level ESOL and ABE students.

The Basic Activity
1. Ask students if they have heard of Show and Tell. Explain that it is a
common activity used in children’s classrooms. Give an example yourself by
coming to class with an object that you can briefly show and explain.
2. Encourage students to bring an object that has significance for them. If
you need examples of the kinds of objects students can bring, here are some
examples that Lynn shared.
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The Literacy Center says good bye to Bob Elliot.

Bob Elliot has been a pre school reader at the YMCA since 2008. Weekly, he reads to 3 and 4 year old children. Bob likes reading the big books to the children, it helps keep their interest. “The children love listening to the stories and Bob is wonderful. Sometimes the kids help to hold up the big books.” says Susan Buglione from the YMCA. Bob and his wife will be moving to Baltimore, Maryland to be closer to their daughter. We wish the Elliot family all the best! Thank you Bob for being a GREAT Literacy Volunteer!

This year our pre school readers volunteered 300 hours at 12 school locations.

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