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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an elementary ESOL teacher and teach different grade levels pretty much every year. Also, I'm asked to support different content areas pretty much every year. The model in which I teach (plug in vs. pull out) can also change from year to year. So some years I might have access to technology like a Promethean board and some years everything has to be in hard copy. My students rarely have the same needs from year to year. Since we don't have a curriculum or resources provided, I've mapped out a general progression for my newcomers that I can follow from year to year but their needs can be so different. This year I pull out three newcomers in the same grade level. One can decode and write pretty well in English, but can't speak or comprehend. One can speak English fluently but has zero literacy skills. The third has some literacy skills in his native language but is in his silent period and won't practice anything having to do with speaking. Every lesson has to be differentiated for each student's needs. Then once I get into a groove a new student will arrive with completely different needs than the ones I'm already teaching. 
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OK, the FIRST year you teach, you have to write something for each student.

But over the course of many years, don't you get a TON of students who speak English fluently, but can't decode anything?  I'm also an ESOL teacher and every year I get at least 2 or 3 students with this particular skill set.  So I pull out the lesson plans for this type of student.  Cut and paste into the planner... done.

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