Strategies for Teaching ELLs to Read
When I imagined my work as an ELL teacher I wrongly thought my students’ language-learning journeys would be a lot like my own journey to…
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Hi-lo Novel Study with ELLs
These are some of my favorite novels to use for novel study with ELLs. I normally read them aloud. I also sometimes have kids follow…
Resources for Teaching The Hate U Give
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Maximizing Student Engagement During Reading
This post may contain affiliate links. This won’t change your price but will share some commission. Here are some tried and true suggestions for how…
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…
Assessing Reading, Using an Independent Reading Rubric
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QAR for Building Background for Teaching Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Building Background for Teaching the Novel Chains As promised, this is another post for teaching the novel Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson. You can get…
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…
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…
Teaching the novel, Refugee by Alan Gratz
Link to resources for building background when teaching Refugee by Alan Gratz.
