Blog #4 Diverse Learners

The biggest factor that I feel hurts diverse learners in learning to read is that the English language has so many words that sound the same but mean different things. Vocabulary is especially hard for young readers, so could you imagine how difficult it would be for an ELL student?

 Here is a website I found that shows some difficulties ELL students face when learning to read. http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/33830/ I chose this website because it mentions the many things a teacher could try in order to reach the ELL students. This website is also the very same site that I used with my Education 110 class when I did a full research paper on ELL students.

Examples of words that may be difficult are as follows

• there, their, they're
• see, sea
• pare, pair, pear
• plane, plain
• bear, bare
• be, bee

One good thing about the English language vs. Spanish is that some words sound alike, such as:

• guitar-guitarra
• school-escuela
• mom-mama
• republic-republica