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Kelly shares her list of ideas for creating a school that welcomes all students and supports language development.
Modeling Messy Objective for an oral language development lesson.
Explore the Thinking Verb options here.
Listen in as Kelly models an early literacy strategy.
Adding structured discourse to science instruction (applicable to all content areas).
Developing Writing Series - a few more strategies for developing the sentence level of speaking and writing
This lesson uses structured partner talk to increase the amount of speaking every student produces.
Developing Writing Series Episode 2 - one strategy to consider when focusing on developing the sentence level of speaking and writing
Developing Writing Series Episode 1 - strategies to develop the word level (vocabulary) of speaking and writing
Focus students on the academic language in your lesson using the Messy Objective strategy
Kelly reviews her "go to" list of best practices for a language rich classroom. How does yours measure up?
Kelly walks through a lesson sequence model that begins with a language development/language arts integrated read aloud and ends with a completed written piece through a writers' workshop type model.
How can you make a new non-English speaking student feel welcome in your classroom when you can't communicate verbally? Here are our nine proven tips for making an impact that is inviting and productive to the success of your new student.
What do you do for your English learner and immigrant families to the orient them to the American school system? How do you help provide them access to the information and support programs they need? Refer to this checklist for 20 great ideas.
How can you make your classroom and routines beneficial to new English learners? We've created a resourceful checklist to help you identify simple tasks you can complete to make your classroom more language-rich.
Language objectives are based on the linguistic demands of a content standard. They will help you support access to content instruction.
Thinking Verbs is a simple tactic that can be implemented school-wide, grade by grade, to make a lasting impact on your students.
Good family engagement is not really about one-time events. It has more to do with building relationships. That said, sometimes English learner family nights can be good way to help build those relationships......
Anchor charts with word and sentence level support are a staple of a language focused classroom.
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