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ELD Writing Lessons
Do your ELD (English Language Development) students need support with writing? Do you work with ELLs with multiple language levels at the same time? Or do you go into a classroom during writing and not always know how to support students during their writing time? Today, I am going to show you a set of ELD writing lessons.
Short Lessons
These lessons take around 30 minutes each. You can extend…
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Tips for Supporting Oral Language Skills
Oral Language skills are the combination of speaking and listening. It is how people communicate verbally. According to WIDA, oral language includes linguistic complexity (the amount and variety of language used), language forms and conventions (variety of grammatical structures and conventions), and vocabulary usage (general and technical language). All students, especially multilingual learners…
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Tips for Practicing Listening Skills with MLs
Listening skills are important language skills for students. Students are constantly listening, but it can be challenging to develop hands-on activities where listening is the focus. Here are some ideas to help your students practice their listening skills while learning English.
Follow Directions
Map practice: Give students a simple neighborhood or park map picture. Give simple directions and…
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Fall Decodable Text
Decodable texts are a valuable tool for students still learning to decode in English. Decodable texts give students the tools that they need to be successful when they are reading. A connected theme allows students to build background knowledge as they read. They will be exposed to similar vocabulary words and be able to use their background knowledge to determine the meaning of new words. Here…
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How to Use Thematic Units for ELD
An ELD (English Language Development) thematic unit combines content information with language standards. According to WIDA, Multilingual Learners are ” best served when they learn content and language together in linguistically and culturally sustaining ways.” Using themes to teach language standards helps students to organize new information. It provides content for students to speak, read,…
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Newcomer Decodables with Photographs
Photographs are a simple yet effective tool to use with newcomer English Language Learners. They illustrate a vocabulary word in a way that a drawing can come close to but not quite achieve. Have you heard about the Science of Reading? Research shows that it is helpful to give beginning readers decodable passages so that they can systematically practice new phonics skills. For newcomers,…
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Supporting MLs in Content Areas
Most Multilingual Learners (MLs) spend the majority of their day with a classroom teacher or in a content classroom. Often these teachers are not ELD specialists. Most of the strategies that support language learning for MLs will help all students improve their academic language and content knowledge.
Visuals
All learners will benefit from pictures, photographs, or other visual supports.…
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Language Domains: Read Speak Listen Write with MLs
The four language domains of reading, speaking, listening, and writing are all important components of learning a new language. The domains often overlap. One area can benefit from practice on the same topic in a different language domain. A student’s background knowledge plays an important role in how quickly they progress in these domains during a particular unit. Whenever possible, create…
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Using a Picture Dictionary with MLs
Using a Picture Dictionary with MLs
Multilingual Learners benefit from seeing pictures as they learn new vocabulary words. Pictures are also beneficial for beginning readers so that they can confirm that the words that they read are accurate. A picture dictionary is a helpful tool for both phonics and vocabulary instruction.
Picture Dictionary Organization
There are multiple ways that a picture dictionary can be…
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Teaching Writing to MLs
Teaching Writing to MLs
When you are teaching writing to multilingual learners, what do you focus on? This is a big question with many components. I think of writing as being organized in two categories, mechanics and ideas. Some students have many ideas to write about and enjoy free writing. For many MLs this can be challenging. One reason is that they do not yet feel confident that they have the language to express…
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Using Wordless Books with MLs
Using Wordless Books with MLs
Wordless picture books are a great tool to use with Multilingual Learners. They allow students to practice making inferences and thinking critically. An added benefit for newcomer students is that they can tell a story in their native language. Over time and with vocabulary support, students can also create stories in English.
Create Multiple Versions of the Same Story
Students can work…
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Using a Sound Wall with MLs
Using a Sound Wall with MLs
A sound wall using speech lips to match the articulation of speech sounds/phonemes to the letters/graphemes that represent those sounds. Many sound walls only show the letter sound and lip pictures. Others also include the picture of a key word that has the target sound. Less frequently, teachers combine a word wall with a sound wall. In this case, the word she would go under the digraph sh, and…
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Picture Phonics Assessments
When English Language Learners are practicing phonics skills, it is important to add in vocabulary instruction so that they know what the words they are learning to read and spell mean. One simple way to accomplish this is with pictures. Keep reading to get a FREE short vowel picture phonics assessment.
Use picture and word cards for students to read the word and then match them to the picture.…
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Author's Purpose with MLs
Author’s Purpose with MLs
Teaching author’s purpose help to understand why a text was created. There are three main categories, to inform, to persuade, and to entertain. Sometimes additional categories are added, including to explain and to describe.
Sorting Activities
A simple way to introduce author’s purpose is to have students sort books, sentences, and short reading passages.
Sort picture books- First, review…
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Cause and Effect with MLs
Cause and Effect with MLs
Cause and effect is a reading comprehension skill where students identify why something happened (the cause) and what happened next (the effect). Very young children experiment with the concept of cause and effect (such as when a baby dumps over a plate to see what will happen next.) This concept is more formally taught in reading during upper elementary. In a story or nonfiction text, students…
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Newcomer Phonics
Phonics is an important component of teaching students how to read and write. Phonics connects sounds with letters and combinations of letters. In the English language, there are 26 letters and 44 sounds (called phonemes). A grapheme is how to spell each sound with either a single letter or letter combinations. It is part of both structured literacy programs and balanced literacy programs.…
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Books for Jewish American Heritage Month to Share with MLs
Books for Jewish American Heritage Month to Share with MLs
Jewish American Heritage month is during the month of May. Read about famous and everyday Jewish people from throughout history and present-day. To learn more about the month, visit jewishheritagemonth.gov.
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day– Learn about the life of children’s book author Ezra Jack Keats, who grew up Brooklyn, N.Y., to Jewish Polish…
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