In this week’s post, I’ll focus on some examples of advocacy action items and will provide some suggestions for collaborating to ensure ELLs are included more in the CCSS conversation
Julie Motta is the Assistant Superintendent of the East Providence School District in Rhode Island and formerly the ESL Director of Pawtucket Schools. In this blog post written for Colorín Colorado, Julie walks through a template that she has been using with her ESL teachers to make curriculum units aligned to the Common Core State Standards more accessible to ELs and highlights the many strengths and areas of expertise her teachers bring to the process.
In this collaborative strategy, students listen to a short text about their current unit of study several times and reconstruct the text together.
Amanda Reynolds is a fourth-grade teacher at Claremont Dual-Immersion Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia. In this interview, she explains how collaboration works in her school's dual-immersion model and the kinds of supports she gives ELLs in th
Here are some tips for talking about tough topics when they come up in the classroom.
In this book, Joanne Yatvin offers a variety of techniques for teaching writing that will motivate all students, while also providing ELLs with the supports they need.
This article reviews research concerning literacy engagement and motivation of adolescent ELL students as well as native speakers in content-area classrooms.
Scripting Lesson Plans
1st-grade teachers discuss the process of carefully scripting ELL lesson plans aligned to the Common Core, as well as the level of scaffolding and detail needed ...
Previewing content is an important step in scaffolding new content for ELLs.
Suddenly I’m hearing about many new resources focused on teaching CCSS-based mathematics to ELLs, as well as updates from the field and I’ll share them with you in this post.