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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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