My name is Mary Hernandez. I’m an English Language Development (ELD) teacher at Carbondale Middle School. As I reflected on my earliest memories of desires to educate, I remembered that as a young child I found ways to subject my adoring little sister to lessons in makeshift classrooms so that I could write on a […]
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Poesía bilingüe por estudiantes recién llegados
Newcomer emerging bilingual students in Mary Hernandez’s class at Carbondale Middle School studied poetic techniques and used sensory imagery to write biographical poems. They wrote and revised bilingual poems in Spanish and English, and strategically chose which language to use to create their ideas. They then practiced reading expressively before recording with the Andy Zanca […]