Term
Summer 2018
Capstone
Capstone Project
Degree Name
MAESL
Facilitator(s)
Susan Manikowski, Julianne Scullen
Content Expert
Kristin Butterfield
Abstract
The research question addressed in this project is, How can teachers best use independent reading with E-Books to benefit elementary English language learner students? The author describes how hearing Stephen Krashen speak about the importance of independent reading made him curious about using E-Books with ELLs. In his review of literature, he describes how E-Books can best provide comprehensible input to help ELLs learn language, how E-Books can best meet the needs of emergent readers, how they can best use special text-tools, and how teachers can make sure independent reading is successful in their classrooms. With this information he makes a website for teachers of elementary ELLs on the subject of using E-Books for independent reading. Hasan and Abuelrub (2010) provide a framework for ensuring the quality of the website. The author concludes that E-Books can be used effectively to promote language and literacy with ELLs if students have access to appropriate books and teachers structure independent reading with pre-teaching of expectations, monitoring of behavior during reading, and reflection activities after reading. He believes his website can help teachers make productive independent reading with E-Books a reality in their classrooms and better serve elementary ELL students. (196 words)
Project Type
Website Creation
Keywords
ESL/ ELLs, Literacy, Reading
Recommended Citation
Davis, Paul, "How Teachers Can Best Use E-Books to Help ELL Students: A Web-Design Project" (2018). School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects. 206.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/hse_cp/206
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text
dc_publisher
DigitalCommons@Hamline
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application/pdf
dc_source
School of Education Student Capstone Projects