Vocabulary Instruction for ELLs: Resource Gallery

Students acting out a vocabulary word

These multimedia resources focus on vocabulary instruction for English language learners (ELLs) and include articles, tip sheets, videos, classroom strategies, and more!

Vocabulary in Literacy Instruction

Teaching Vocabulary: Literacy Instruction for ELLs

Vocabulary tip sheet

Teaching Vocabulary: Literacy Instruction for ELLs (Tip Sheet)

Sequence sentence frame

Literacy Tips for Educators of ELLs: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12

Vocabulary in Content-Area Instruction

Strategy: Vocabulary Instruction

Vocabulary slide deck

Vocabulary Instruction: Slide Deck

12 Tips for Supporting ELLs' Vocabulary Development

Academic Language and ELLs: What Teachers Need to Know

Background Knowledge and ELLs: What Teachers Need to Know

Language Objectives: The Key to Effective Content Area Instruction for English Learners

Statue of Liberty

Social Studies Instruction for ELLs: Resource Collection

Math Instruction for ELLs: Resource Collection

Science Instruction for ELLs: Resource Collection

Supporting ELL Instruction with AI: Ideas for Educators

Recommended Strategies: Teaching Vocabulary

Accountable Talk

Anchor Charts

Annotated Diagrams

Teacher looking at a laptop with students

Building Background Knowledge

Cognates

Comprehension Checks

Concept Maps

Charlotte's Web organizer

Graphic Organizers

Graphs, Charts, Timelines, and Infographics

Match, Sort, Order

Multilingual Glossaries

Photo Gallery

Niagara Falls

Picture Word Inductive Model

Pre-Teaching Content and Vocabulary

Students trying out beekeeping equipment

Realia and Manipulatives

See-think-wonder chart

See-Think-Wonder

Sentence Frames and Sentence Starters

Earth rotation

Sketchnotes

Teaching Map Skills

Text Engineering

Total Physical Response

Using Multimedia Resources

Using Visuals

Word Phrase Sentence

Videos

Accountable Talk

Focusing on language in "Cinderella"

Instruction of Key Academic Vocabulary with High School ELLs

Reading Non-Fiction Text with High School ELLs

Building ELLs' background knowledge about the 50 states in a Social Studies lesson

How vocabulary can get in the way of solving a word problem

Language Development Within a Reading Fluency Lesson (Reading Universe)

One-on-One with an English Learner, with Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan (Reading Universe)

Teaching English Learners: What Every Educator Should Know (Reading Universe)