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Support Strategies for ELL

·      Use explicit language when modeling- speak slowly and clearly

·      Clearly explain and allow practice of new procedures like FQR forms

·      Check for understanding and review lesson planning daily to ensure goals are being met

·      Use partnering and larger groups in addition to individual work to improve learning of all students

·      Collaborate with other teachers in different subject areas.

·      Clearly and openly connect what you are teaching to other subject areas

·      Allow additional time or circumstances for assignments and tests

·      Be sure to connect what they are learning to their personal lives and cultures for deeper learning

·      Use drawing and role playing

·      Have them argue positions from their lives

·      Follow modeling, guided practice, and gradual release in all lessons

·      Allow for students to show their answers in other ways like speaking their answers rather than writing them

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Strategies to support ELL
· Collaborate with ESL teachers and other faculty members to effectively implement instructional strategies that support ELL students across multiple content areas.

· Explicitly teach and frequently model comprehension strategies and thinking processes that proficient readers utilize.

· Provide students with opportunities to work and problem-solve collaboratively (Garcia)

· Integrate literacy-based ESL lessons into content learning/use content to support literacy learning

· During assessments, allow ELL students to display their knowledge and thinking in various formats, as text-heavy assessments may not adequately reflect what ELL students have learned

· Present content in various formats, such as text, film, audio, or other visual mediums.

· Provide students with audio recordings of text (something that would be relatively easy to do using Google Classroom!)

· Teach strategies that promote visualization, or the creation of a mental picture of the text.

· Foster a positive learning environment and make it evident to ELL students (and all students really) that you are ready and willing to provide support for their language acquisition and literacy skills both in and outside of your classroom!

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Strategies to support ELL
1. Create a strong relationship with the students to show you care about their culture and their success.
2. Model your thought process during reading to demonstrate your reading strategy.
3. Create visual representation of ideas though diagrams.
4. Support the student with slow scaffolding of material.
5. Create a word wall where students can visually see vocabulary.
6. Include multiple ways of learning, such as group, partner, whole class, and individual as well as visually, audibly, and hands on methods.
7. Regularly check for understanding or questions to ensure students are not leaving class completely confused about the class material.

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1. Use a word wall so students have a visual reference.
2. Use pictures or images along with verbal/written explanations.
3. Explicitly teach language structures that will be used in class like how questions are formed or how to make a comparison.
4. Give students time to practice using language structures in relation to content.
5. Offer options for assessments so students can pick how to demonstrate what they have learned.
6. Give students the opportunity to incorporate aspects of their culture and background  into what is being learned in class.

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Strategies to support ELL
1. Promote group work and discussion
2. Slow down speech, be concise and use shorter sentences.
3. Incorporate other content area ideas within the lessons to help students make connections
4. Focus on words and their meanings such as: while, rather, as well, and however in order to boost students confidence
5. Offer different forms of assessment such as written, oral, art in order to reach all student learning and understanding types
6. Use guided practice and gradual release with everything so that students can begin to understand better by doing things over and over
7. Be respectful of all student cultures and build relationships with students so that they know you are there for them and want to help them succeed

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1. When presenting instructions in the form of written text use short concise sentence structure with common vocabulary
2. When possible provide both verbal and written instruction. This will help bridge the mental gap between speech and writing
3. Model critical reading strategies. Help students identify key content, and pick out main ideas from a text.
4. Provide visual demonstrations to supplement traditional learning modalities.
5. Develop personal relationships with the ELL students so that they will feel comfortable asking for help when they need it.
6. Give additional time to complete assignments when necessary.
7. Learn about and be respectful of their cultural norms.
8. Provide bilingual handouts

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1. Give students multiple options for how to display/express their learning.
2. Model activities thoroughly
3. Give students time to think and process new information.
4. Try to connect readings and concepts to other content areas to make information more meaningful.
5. Encourage and provide students with the opportunity to incorporate aspects of their
culture in their work.
6. Use drawings and other visuals to work through complex concepts

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1. Slow speech down.
2. Provide audio with text.
3. Provide bilingual handouts
4. Use visual cues and gestures
5. Allow students to still use their native language
6. Use shorter sentences
7. Allow them time to figure things out
8. Get to know the ELL students personally. Find out what they are good at and lean on those to work on material.

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1.     Slow down speech

2.     Be supportive of the student and respectful of their culture

3.     Support them through video and audio

4.     Give both verbal and written instructions for assignments

5.     Allow for multiple ways for the students to display their learning

6.     Model the reading and what they should be looking for when reading

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Strategies to Support ELL
1: Using multiple mediums to present and share information with the class.
2: Slow down speech and use shorter sentences.
3: Make use of regular visual cues and gestures.
4: Offer different forms of assessment in order to better fit all students' learning types.
5: Be patient, give additional time when needed for an assignment.
6: Increase "wait time", giving students more time to think.
7: Try to develop a supportive relationship with them.
8: Continuous checking for understanding.

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ELL Strategies
1. Supportive, culturally respectful relationships are essential.
2. Design lessons that provide opportunities to practice oracy as well as content.
3. Provide multiple ways for students to express their thinking.
4.  Teach interactively with conversations that scaffold well.
5.  Provide audio with text.
6.  Draw and/or role play with text.
7.  Model thoughtful reading and have students share their thoughts about texts.
8. Teach and provide time for self monitoring.

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Good strategies to use to support ELL:

·         Slow our speech down

·         Use shorter sentences

·         Use lots of different styles to deliver the necessary information (oral, written, videos, student and teacher demonstration, etc.)

·         Provide bilingual handouts

·         Make sure I have word walls on display in my classroom

·         Get to know our ELL students, they may not have English knowledge but may have strong reading, writing, speaking skills in their native language

·         Make sure we model (demonstrating, think out loud)

·         Try to use visual cues, gestures

·         Try to always give both verbal and written instructions

·         Check regularly for understanding

·         Continue to encourage our ELL students to use their native language and continue building their literacy skills in their native language