Supporting ELL Students in the Classroom: Strategies That Work
You have a new student in your classroom, and she speaks very little English. She watches everything carefully, follows what other students do, and rarely raises her hand. You want…
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Informational Writing Sentence Starters For Grades 3-5
If you’re teaching informational writing in grades 3–5, one of the biggest challenges students face is knowing how to start their sentences. Informational writing sentence starters, sometimes called informational paragraph…
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What is Turn and Talk and how to implement it in the classroom to Build Conversation and Connection
“Turn and Talk” is a powerful, quick-response discussion technique that gives students a chance to process their thoughts out loud, practice active listening, and connect with their peers. If you’re…
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Sentence Stems, Sentence Frames, and Signal Words: Key Tools to Elevate Students’ Academic Language Skills
Sentence stems and sentence frames are powerful tools for helping elementary school students, particularly English learners, learn academic language. Providing a scaffold of language to build on, sentence frames, sentence…
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Reading Comprehension Bookmarks to Support Academic Language
Are you wondering how you can provide valuable support for students’ reading comprehension, particularly for those who are still learning to read in English? These Reading Comprehension Bookmarks are designed…
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Fluency Strips for English Learners
Many teachers have English learners in their classrooms. I have a particular group of second-grade English learners who are struggling with reading fluency. They can read the words but are…
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Map Skills Social Studies Unit for Second Grade
This Location and Map Skills Social Studies Unit teaches students about North American landforms, urban, rural, and suburban communities, grid maps, and family history. It is a perfect unit for…
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Talking Less, So That Students Think More
Have you ever observed a teacher teaching a group of students and noticed how much the teacher talked vs the students? As a teacher, I have often had to stop…
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Graphic Organizers with Language Support
Reading Comprehension can be difficult for students, even those with great reading skills. When we ask students to explain their thinking or write about what they read, it’s almost like…
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Effectively Use Sentence Frames in Math to Help Students Explain their Thinking
Do your students struggle to express their thinking in math? Mine do! Developing students’ language skills by focusing on mathematical vocabulary and using sentence frames in math helps students learn the language…
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What are the Components of Academic Language?
Some students, including English learners or impoverished children, come to school not having the academic language at their fingertips to express their thinking. They have great things going on in…
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Teach and Practice Cause & Effect with Soil Erosion – Integrated ELD
Do you have a problem finding time to focus on Science in the early elementary grades? I find it challenging to find the time for science and as a result,…
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