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 Frames and Sentence Stems: Examples and How to Use
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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How to Teach Map Skills in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade
Teaching map skills in the primary grades gives students a framework for understanding the world around them — starting with their own classroom and expanding outward to communities, countries, and…
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Graphic Organizers with Language Support
When students struggle to explain what they’ve read, the gap is usually not about understanding. They understood the text. What’s hard is organizing their thinking and putting it into academic…
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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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Sentence Frames for Science: Teaching Academic Language with Familiar Content
When students struggle to talk about science content, the problem often isn’t the concept — it’s the language. Sentence frames for science give students a structure for practicing academic language…
