Samantha Kirch is a third-grade teacher at Claremont Immersion School in Arlington, Virginia.
This article starts with a needs assessment to help prioritize planning, as well as tips and strategies for developing online lesson plans for ELLs. The article also includes activities that support students' language development.
Engineered templates provide scaffolds for assignments, reports, and in-class assessments such as prompts, guiding questions, sentence frames, and sentence stems.
Featuring bilingual speech-language pathologist Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan.
This comprehensive treatment of ELL assessment highlights the intricate relationship between English language proficiency and content area learning.
These strategies for vocabulary development are targeted towards students in grades 4-12.