English Learners

Supporting English learners in a K-5 classroom requires a few key strategies that make grade-level content accessible. From sentence frames and academic language to proficiency-based differentiation across reading, writing, math, and science, these resources help you reach multilingual learners while strengthening instruction for every student.

Differentiation | Earth Science | English Learners

Developing Academic Language with Familiar Content

I love working with students using complex academic language. It is so fun seeing light bulbs go off as I watch students construct new sentences using high level vocabulary and concepts. Of…

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Earth Science | English Learners

Processes that Shape the Earth – Earth’s Systems Unit

An Earth Science Unit that includes a variety of activities to scaffold the content for your second-grade learners. Each standard focuses on one comprehension skill. There is a pre-reading activity to build background knowledge…

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Math | English Learners

Teach Multiplication Arrays Columns and Rows by Developing Academic Language

As students start learning multiplication facts, modeling multiplication arrays in rows and columns is an effective strategy to visualize what is happening in the problems. Let’s explore fun and engaging…

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Reading | English Learners

26 Read Alouds for 2nd Grade That Build Comprehension and a Love of Stories

Second graders are at a sweet spot with reading. They are ready for longer stories, strong characters, and running jokes that carry across chapters, but many are not quite ready…

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English Learners | Instructional Strategies

How to Use Sentence Frames in ELD

This is not a new idea, but I wanted to show you how engaged my ELD kiddos were the other week. Our objective was to compare and contrast two different…

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Differentiation | English Learners

Teaching Prepositions to Elementary English Learners

I know most of us have English learners in our classrooms, but how many of you have to teach English Language Development (ELD) or ESL everyday? In California, we need…

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Writing | English Learners

How to use a Grammar Wall in Elementary Classrooms

As we have been doing some activities that elicit specific grammar and spelling patterns, my students have struggled to remember the names of grammar words like apostrophes, contractions, etc. Let’s…

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Writing | Differentiation | English Learners | Social Studies

How to Teach Compare and Contrast Text Structure in Social Studies Using Urban and Rural Areas – Scaffolded Writing Task for English Learners

Scaffold student writing in the content areas by providing them with word lists, a way to organize the words and sentence frames. Find out how I help my English learners and struggling writers to organize their thoughts when comparing and contrasting urban and rural environments.

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