Shelby Eby
Shelby Eby is the Content Specialist for English Learners Grades K-6. She currently serves as the EL teacher at Osolo Elementary. Shelby enjoys using exit tickets with her students and she likes to use question sentence stems or word banks with icons to help students craft their questions. She also spends a great deal of time teaching vocabulary by using semantic mapping. As an EL teacher, Shelby’s schedule is constantly evolving as she works in her classroom with EL students, pushes into General Education classrooms, co-teaches with her colleagues and leads scaffolded reading groups. She loves story retelling with sticky notes. She lives with her husband in Goshen and loves to play piano!
Jumpstart Vocabulary Instruction for a New School Year
Language proficiency lies at the heart of effective communication and academic success, and educators are constantly seeking innovative ways to enhance students’ language skills. Understanding the significance of engaging with new words across all four language domains – reading, writing, speaking, and listening – has been a cornerstone of language instruction, as highlighted in SIOP training. In this article, we explore how Seesaw templates leverage Seesaw’s new frames to empower students to respond using all language domains, fostering comprehensive language development. Additionally, we delve into two exciting techniques to gamify vocabulary acquisition and deepen word understanding through word webs. Join...