A Teacher's Reflection: How My Post Masters Classes in Reading Informed My Practice ELL students clap for a fellow classmate after a presentation My Classroom (in 2009) The teaching context is high school English language arts (ELA) and English language learners (ELLs). My students are in grades 9-12. I teach in a large, diverse school of approximately 2300 students located in Burke County. I typically have between five to fourteen students in any given ELL class and between twenty to thirty-two students in an ELA class. This past year, I taught an ELL course for novices just starting to acquire conversational English. I also taught a reading class aimed at providing students with strategies to survive in their content courses like world history and biology. I taught a communication skills course that focused on all the domains of language usage: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. All of my students were native Spanish speakers from Guat
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