Espinosa Article April 5, 2009

I appreciate this article for the way that it showed how writing can be done artfully and successfully in a dual language setting.  I don’t have much experience at all with ELL instruction, but I appreciated the idea of having children write in their native tongue and using mentor texts from their background.  I also really appreciated the idea of finding small, seemingly unimportant moments to write about in such a way that makes them meaningful.  The phrase explode the moment was used over and over again in this article and I think that it is an excellent way to vividly describe the process of taking a small moment in time and bringing it to life.  The way that Espinosa worked with the children to teach them how to respond to authors and each other was also meaningful to me.

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