Multilingual Learner Toolkit
Academic Language
- Sheltered Instruction: Teaching Content & Language Simultaneously
- SIOP Lesson Planning: Ingredients of Sheltered Instruction
- Start with What They Know: Building Background Knowledge
- Comprehensible Input: Making Instruction EL-Friendly
- How to Foster Student Independence: 3 SIOP Learning Strategies
- Get Them Talking: Structuring Student Interactions
- Creating with Content: Moving Beyond Memorizing to Applying
- Beyond Delivering Lessons: Engineering Student Interactions
- Staying on Track: Assessing Throughout the Teaching
- Designing Learning that Incorporates ELs’ Experiences
- Draw it to Understand it: Making Academic Language Visible
- Students in Bloom: Planning Differentiated Lessons with Bloom’s
- Making Sense of It All: Creating a Context to Learn Language
- “Just Right” Strategy: Considering Language Development
- A Dynamic Duo: Combining Language and Content Standards
- If There’s a Context, There’s a Reason to Learn
- Teaching ELs New to English: Ayaka’s Story
- Comprehensible Input: What Teachers Can Do
- Comprehensible Output: What Students Can Do
- Talk-Read-Talk-Write: Creating a Language-Rich Classroom
- If These Walls Could Talk: Creating a Language-Rich Classroom
- Cultivating Content-Specific Language: The Dreaded Lab Report
- WIDA’s Key Uses: Unlocking Academic Language
- Making it Click: Integrating Language and Content Instruction
- Three Types of Scaffolding: There’s a Scaffold for That
- The Perfect Package: Creating a Language-Rich Text Set
- One-Off Collaboration: How to Win Friends and Collaborate with Content Teachers
- ELL Strategies for Content Teachers: How to Be a Teacher of Language
- Academic Word List
- Signal Words List
- Academic Language Functions Chart
- Bridging Gaps in Language, Literacy, and Achievement
- 8 Strategies for Teaching Academic Language by Todd Finley
- Increasing Academic Language Knowledge for English Language Learner Success
- Using Complex Texts to Develop Academic Language
After-Reading Strategies
Background Knowledge
Before-Reading Strategies
Best Practices
- Supporting ELLs in the Mainstream Classroom: Language Tips
- Supporting English Language Learners with Formative Assessments
- Reading Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
- Instructional Strategies for ELLs in Mainstream Classrooms
- Seven Ways to Scaffold Instruction for English Language Learners
- Do’s and Don’ts for Teaching English Language Learners by Larry Feriazzo
Discussion Strategies/Equity-Based Strategies
- Affirmation Interview
- Artifact Add-ons
- Barometer: Taking a Stand on Controversial Issues
- Brain Share
- Cafe Conversations
- Concentric Circles
- Critical Listening Guide
- Fishbowl
- Fishbowl 2
- Four Corners
- Give One, Get One
- The Harkness Discussion: Where Everyone Has a Voice at the Table
- Lifting the Text
- Increase Student Interaction with “Think-Pair-Share” and “Circle Chats”
- Jigsaw: Developing Community and Disseminating Knowledge
- Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn
- Pick a Number
- Readers’ Theater
- Save the Last Word for Me
- Save the Last Word for Me 2
- Say Something
- Socratic Seminar
- Socratic Seminar 2
- Stations: Interacting with Multiple Texts
- Text Talk Time
- Text Treasure Hunt
- Think-Pair-Share
- Town Hall Circle
- Two-Minute Interview
- Value Lines
- What Would They Say
- Wraparound (Whiparound)
During-Reading Strategies
- Annolighting
- Annotating and Paraphrasing Sources
- Challenge the Text
- Chunking the Text (Facing History strategy overview)
- Directed Reading – Thinking Activity
- Document Analysis Form
- Identity Charts
- Levels of Questions
- Question-Answer Relationships
- Read Aloud
- Reading Against the Grain
- Shared Reading
- SQP2RS
- Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World
- Two-Column Note-Taking
- Think Aloud
- Thinking Notes
ELA For ELL: Scaffolding Understanding for Complex Text Series (Teaching Channel Videos)
ELL Classroom Videos (Playlists from Colorin Colorado)
Engaging ELLs in Classroom Conversations
- Culturally Responsive Communication: Participation that Values Individual Differences
- Talk-Read-Talk-Write: Creating a Language Rich Classroom (Empowering ELLs)
- How to Plan for a TRTW Lesson (Curly Classroom)
- Cultivating Constructive Conversations
- Tools for Constructive Conversation Skills and for Speaking & Listening Skills
- Fortifying Speaking and Listening
- Formative Assessment of Language Across Disciplines
Language Acquisition and Language Objectives
Learning to Write Strategies
Overview/Introductions/Myths
Pedro Noguera: Succeeding with ELL And Their Families (Videos)
Reading Comprehension
Reading Visual Texts
Vocabulary Strategies
- Concept Sort
- Four-Fold Vocabulary
- Guess the Covered Word
- Illustrated Vocabulary
- Making Words
- Meaning-Making Paragraphs
- Meet New Vocabulary
- My Pile, Your Pile
- Personal Picture Dictionary
- Prior Knowledge and Personal Association Surveys
- Traits Matrix
- Vocabulary Frames
- Vocabulary Prediction Chart
- Vocabulary Rounds
- Vocabulary Tableaux
- Word Cheering
- Word Wall
- Word Wall 2
- Word Web
- Word Wheel
- Tiered Vocabulary: Not All Words Are Created Equal
- Tier 2 Words: Words that Make a Difference
- Tier 3 Words: Teaching Content-Specific Vocabulary