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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would discourage your friend from teaching sight words to second language learners in this way.  Language needs to happen in context.  I teach first grade to a lot of ELL's and we try to do as much as possible in context.[/quote]

I agree with this. In K and 1st grade, when kids are just starting to learn to read in their first language, learning to speak and understand the second language is much better than teaching them to read words they may not understand.[/quote]

Tell that to admins who put tremendous pressure on teachers to get kids reading on grade level. Our kids have to read on a level B by January of their kindergarten year and level D by the end of the year. Most of the words at those levels are sight words and they don't care that the students are ESOL. They tell the ESOL teachers that they are making excuses if their kids aren't on grade level.[/quote]

Sure, but that's a different situation than in the OP. You're teaching non English speakers who are living in an English speaking country and who, presumably, will have much of their education in English. OP is talking about teaching English to people living in a country that speaks the children's dominant language and (hopefully) learning to read in that language.[/quote]

OP here. My friend is teaching ELLs in Australia and her students speak a host of different languages including Chinese and Russian.[/quote]

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