Teachers' Show & Tell

Teachers also do Show & Tell. Today in my own graduate class for education, we had a Show & Tell gallery walk and learned about different innovative ideas on different strategies our colleagues used to teach English learners. Here's one new idea.

Repetition and Innovation through Song Writing and Music
by Martin & Zareen

Used the song "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" as a language frame for each student to write their own stanza of the song. Students learned about rhyming, came up with their own animals for the lyric, ordering animals from smallest to largest, co-created a new version of "There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a..."