Sharon Newmaster

ESL/ELD Learning Service Consultant

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@ergoontario Check out ETFO’s response to early reading screening in Ontario. https://t.co/j8azajPIPY

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A1: My name is Sharon Newmaster. I am a ESL/ELD Elementary consultant at the WRDSB. I’m excited to connect with other educators to better understand the shifts we need to make as educators & leaders to provide equitable education for MLLs.#WRDSB_BookStudy_BDW

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Talking about protocols this week. Here's a great link
https://t.co/buedsQb2bf #OPCPQP

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Thanks everyone! Great hearing and learning from you tonight #itsonliteracy

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@highlandmom Nicely done!

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A5 Sometimes students want to share their story with a limited audience - their family, their teacher or a classmate. We need to ask them about this and respect their decision. #itsonliteracy

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A5 Another consideration- be careful not to make a student feel like they are the official representative for their entire culture or language. Their story is important but it represents only one story of many.
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A5 Need to establish a classroom culture that is inclusive and respectful to others, growth mindset, a culture of learning & sharing

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Here are some examples #itsonliteracy

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@highlandmom It's it interesting that we never see ourselves as emergent bilinguals even though all of us learn French in school. S

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Incorporating dual language into identity texts not only allows students to sustain their first language but shows that we as educators value their languages #itsonliteracy

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When students get an opportunity to tell their stories it motivates them to learn new words and to really understand them so that they know those words accurately represent what they have to say #itsonliteracy

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@RobinsonJeffery Such a great video! Every teacher should see this.

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A3Check out what these two grade 6 Peel teachers learned when they used identity text to prompt the literacy achievement of their ELLs https://t.co/etMhKxA4VG
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A2 many identity texts focus on personal narratives something which disappears in the upper grades. See Alan Lukes video on the danger of losing our narratives https://t.co/4UKztUZTDO #itsonliteracy #itsonliteracy

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A2 A powerful strategy for ELLs b/c it focuses on identity affirmation, societal power relationships & literacy all together #itsonliteracy

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I think the key thing to remember is it needs to be something the student has determined to be important and not what the teacher thinks they should share.itsonliteracy#itsonliteracy

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A1 I like Jim Cummin's definition on this "Identity texts are the products of students’ creative work or performances carried out within the pedagogical space orchestrated by the classroom teacher. Jim Cummin
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Hi folks looking forward to twitter chat #itsonliteracy

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Thanks for sharing everyone! #itsonliteracy