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Hello to the new Read-With-Me Class!

 

My name is Laraine Flemming, and I will be your teacher. I am looking forward to reading the books with you. I have read them with another class and think they tell wonderful stories. You will also be reading a book about Ellis Island. This was once the place new arrivals to our shores saw when they first stepped off the boat. 

 

For your first assignment, please read the first ten pages from When Jessie Came Across the Sea. There are no page numbers. But you can count from the first page to the tenth. The tenth page looks like the photo I have attached here.

 

Before the first class, can you just post two sentences. Tell us all your name in a sentence like this one: "My name is Laraine Flemming." Then  say what you would most like to do in the class. That sentence should be something like this: " I want to learn more English words."  I look forward to meeting you all. 

Jessie

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  • Jessie Arriving in America: The page ends "If only you could see what I see now."
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Hi Enya and Cindy,  Thank you for posting on the Forum. Thank you, too, for telling me what you want to learn. As your teacher, that helps me a lot.

 

If you look under Clips (top of the Forum at the far right), I have posted an audio version of our first book  When Jessie Came Across the Sea.

 

That means when you click on it, you can hear someone read the book aloud.

https://community.ivylabs.org/clips

One good way to learn a second language is to

 

1. read the book on your own.

 

2. then read it again as you follow along with a reader who reads the words aloud.

 

This is very good practice for pronunciation. It's also good practice for remembering new words. But you don't have to listen to the whole book. Just listen to the part that you are reading for this week.

 

Attached here is what Jessie sees in the distance when she first arrives. You can see a shadow of it in the right hand corner on the last page of your assignment.

 

See you soon. Looking forward to it.  Laraine

StatueLiberty

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  • StatueLiberty: What Jessie sees in the distance as she arrives in New York City
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Hi Mark, I know what you mean about speaking English "freely." That's the perfect word choice. 

 

I have guests right now and have to speak a second language. Because I haven't spoken a word of German in maybe two years, I am not free when I speak. But I wish I were.

 

 We will work on  speaking English freely in our class. I promise.

 

Laraine

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