Cognates anchor chart

Laura - Learning Bilingually on Instagram: “EL PUENTE 🌉 BRIDGING anchor chart - a way to explicitly show students how to bridge the languages and what aspects we should be looking at…”

I love using cognates to help empower my older newcomers to access high-level vocab! (They are all Spanish-speakers right now) Explicit teaching of the patterns also increases their metalinguistic awareness! #ELLs #ELLchat

Cognates help with vocabulary development.@Mary Wallis

Los Cognados. Students look to find new cognate patterns. If it works for at least 3 different words they write it on a sticky note for me to check. If it works we add the pattern in marker to a new square. Throughout the day during independent time, if students notice a cognate that follows one of the patterns they come up and add it to the chart.

COMING SOON TO THE BILINGUAL TEACHER STORE! When you're learning a new language, a cognate is an easy word to remember because it looks and means the same thing as a word you already know. For example: author and autor. More than 90 cognates in English and Spanish cards are included in this product, as well as sentences in English and Spanish.

Use of Space that Fosters Success Guest blog post by Krista Carlson For many of us teachers, it happens at the beginning of every school year. We walk into our classrooms for the first time after a summer away, feeling a bit overwhelmed by those four blank walls staring back at us. We have a

Do you know what cognates are? Do you use them in your classroom? If you have ELLs in your classroom (even if you're not a bilingual ...

A Cognate Wall is a helpful space for any classroom with language learners. Cognates are words that sound similar and have a similar meaning in two different languages. For instance, "chocolate" while pronounced a bit differently, is spelled the same in both English and Spanish and means the same thing.