Strategies for Working with Multilingual Learners: A Bonus Episode with Shawnda Fukano (TWT Contributing Writer)

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MORE INFORMATION

• Check out Shawnda's blog post that inspired today's bonus episode:
  • Chants for Writing: Support Routines, Conventions, and Craft
• Read more posts about working with multilingual learners and on translanguaging on Two Writing Teachers. 
• In addition, here are some other #TWTBlog posts that will provide you with more information about things Shawnda mentioned.
  • Developing Storytellers
  • Students Can Draw at Every Stage of the Writing Process (At All Ages)
  • Use Oral Rehearsal to Aid Note-Taking

ABOUT SHAWNDA

Shawnda Fukano is a primary literacy coach at Mount View Elementary, a dual-language school in the Highline School District in Seattle, Washington. She supports teachers and students in both English and Spanish classrooms as they develop biliteracy. Shawnda has had a passion for educating multilingual learners since she began teaching in 2004. She spent many years as a classroom teacher for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade newcomers, and was then the Dual Language Coordinator when her school first transitioned to the dual-language program. She also taught English to adult refugees from Burma for several years.

Shawnda is a National Board Certified Teacher in English as a New Language and is an OCDE Project GLAD® Trainer. She lives in Seattle with her husband, son, and twin daughters and writes slices of her life as a mom and teacher at ShawndaStories or follow her on Twitter @ShawndaFukano.

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