Scaffolding Writing for ELLs
Strategies for scaffolding writing for ELLs at all different proficiency levels.
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Quick Writes for ELLs
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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
This post may contain affiliate links which won’t change your price but will share some commission. See my disclosure policy for more information. The Book…
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…
Teaching the novel, Refugee by Alan Gratz
Link to resources for building background when teaching Refugee by Alan Gratz.
