4 Apps for English Language Learners

As a beginning teacher, I think it is very important to find ways to tend to your EL learners. While you should never "dumb down" your lesson for your EL's, you should find creative and unique ways to include EL's in your lesson so they feel comfortable and reassured while learning.

Below are 4 applications that I found that work extremely well for English Language Learners. They all can be found on the IPAD which are becoming more and more prevalent in the classroom.

1. Intro to letters by Montessoreum (IPAD)- Intro to letters is perfect for EL learners. This app runs through all the letters of the English Alphabet, introducing them to the arrangement and pronunciation through tracing, audio, digital flashcards, and phonogram puzzles. This app will help EL’s not only learn the alphabet but say each letter phonetically correct. EL’s will further concrete these letters into their brains by tracing each letter out. This app is very dynamic!

2. Adventures for kids by Wirecloud (IPAD)- Adventures for kids is splendid for younger EL learners. This app is appropriate for children just absorbing English as a primary or secondary language. This app features mild, calm, and tender story based games that cherish and cultivate vocabulary skills through recurrence. This app will address vocabulary needs.

 

3. Rainbow sentences (IPAD)- Rainbow sentences is intended to assist EL’s in refining and enlightening their ability to construct grammatically correct sentences by using color coded visual cues. This app is great for visual learners. The who, what, where, and why parts of sentences are color coded to aid EL’s in distinguishing and comprehending  how combinations of these parts create basic sentence structure. Most kids are auditory or kinesthetic learners so I love that this app assists the more visual learning students.

                                              

4. Preposition builder (IPAD)- Preposition builder is intended to benefit elementary aged EL’s. This app works with students to learn the correct use of prepositions and it shows how prepositions can change the meaning of a sentence. The importance of these little words is magnified for the student and profound learning takes place.