Media

Teaching with media in the ESL classroom will allow for students to not only to become familiar with popular culture and but it will facilitate language learning. Some teachers may not even think of some of their belongings in the classroom as media. But media allows our visual, kinesthetic, and auditory learners grasp their new knowledge easier and soon. When used properly media can enhance language teaching and learning. Media falls into two categories: non-technical media and technical media  Magnet/flannel boards Flash cards Board Games Posters, maps, charts Puppets Books     ||   CD/Tape Player/Recorder Radio Television DVR/VCR player Overhead projector Computer Internet/World Wide Web    || The approach I mostly identify media is Total Physical Response Approach and the SIOP model.
 * **__Non-Technical__**     ||     **__Technical__**      ||
 * Blackboards/whiteboards

The two websites I have chosen have excellent activities that one can use in the ESL classroom. PBSkids.org is a website that I have personally used in my classroom that combines interactive coloring, games, music, and videos. My young students enjoy that they can use a variety of media in one classroom that is very user friendly. I highly recommend this site and it is very reliable because it is targeted to young children and young children are targeted to this site.

The second website TotalESL.com provides teachers an array of lesson plans that teachers can use in their classrooms that use a variety of classroom media. One of the lesson plans that I enjoyed “Primary Math PowerPoint for rounds to tens and hundredths.” This PowerPoint gives students realistic pictures and examples of how to round tens and hundredths. This lesson may be to advance for my Kindergarten students but it would be a great lesson for 2nd graders. I feel that the activities I provide are appropriate from this website because they were made for ESL students in mind. This website is aimed to helping our ESL learners and they are trying to help ESL teachers find a way to guide their 2nd language learning.

[|http://pbskids.org] http://www.totalesl.com/lesson.php