Collaborative summaries: A powerful strategy for MLLs
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This powerful teaching strategy coaches students in recognizing main ideas in a passage and summarizing it, gradually progressing from individual to pair work to larger groups. Students learn to use evidence from the text to defend their interpretation of the main ideas, which becomes more challenging (but exciting) as groups expand.
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Sheri Jordan
Sheri Jordan has been teaching for longer than she cares to admit, but she got her start with ESL back when you could get a job in Japan from a local newspaper job ad. She’s progressively sought more education and training to improve her craft, ultimately with a PhD in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education (from Indiana University, Bloomington). Her most recent full-time position involved teaching K-8 teacher candidates in a teacher education program in rural Washington. More recently, she’s been teaching immigrants and refugees in Clark College’s ESL program in Vancouver, but she expects to pick up full-time teaching work again very soon. When not teaching, she’s exploring, hiking, and photographing with her lab-mix dog. You can contact her via portlandsheri@yahoo.com.
