ELL Classroom Tour
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ESL Teaching Advice
Daily Read Alouds with Prediction Questions with Secondary ELLs
Why Read Aloud to Older ELLs? Reading aloud is an invaluable strategy for students of all age levels. Research shows that reading aloud to older…
Editorial: All The Ways NOT to Teach Reading
I was completely blown away by this article in the Atlantic published April 13th 2018, called, “Why American Students Haven’t Gotten Better at Reading in…
Assessment Tracking for ELLs for Organization
Assessment tracking for organization One way to help ensure that your ELLs are making steady progress is to progress monitor them. But with that progress…
Assessing Reading, Using an Independent Reading Rubric
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3 Free Progress Report Templates for ELLs
Getting Started with Progress Reports Progress reports can feel like just one more thing that you don’t have time for as a busy teacher. I…
How To Do a Research Project with ELLs: Outlining and Organizing
Organizing the Research In the previous post I discussed how to get students to read and digest research articles and take notes. I like to…
Reading Assessment with ELLs
Assessing reading in ELLs can be difficult, but it is essential. I discovered that it was a skill that I needed to develop as an…
Using Criteria for Success in Your Classroom
This post may contain affiliate links which won’t change your price but will share some commission. I took a Skillful Teacher course and didn’t like much…
Visualizing: Essential for Reading Comprehension in Secondary ELLs
A great strategy to use with ELLs after you have built some background on a topic is visualizing. I feel like this is a reading…
