In this blog post written for Colorín Colorado, Rhode Island administrator and WIDA trainer Julie Motta walks through a read-aloud activity for first grade and highlights how she engaged the students with the story, brought in content-area connections, and included informal assessment to check comprehension.
Sketchnotes are notes that students create from a video, lecture, text, or lesson incorporating labeled, simple drawings.
This in-depth article from Dr. Ruslana Westerlund explains why writing is hard for students and walks educators through a teaching and learning cycle that can help students develop writing skills within disciplinary genres across content areas.
An annotated diagram is a visual that includes labels for each part of an image, text, or diagram that students are using in content-area instruction.
How can ELLs have equal access to education that they are legally entitled to if there are no ESL programs or a certified teacher to provide services?
I often hear from teachers who say their school has no ESL program and who ask me questions about providing services to ELLs in their classrooms.
This blog post is the third in a three-part series about the steps one elementary school with 60% ELLs took to increase collaboration between ESOL teachers and content teachers in order to better meet the language needs of ELLs in their school.
Engineering a text is a strategy that embeds scaffolds and supports directly into grade-level text in order to increase student comprehension.