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great for language development/ being able to describe

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Creative Minds
Umm Sequim Road (near Mall of the Emirates)
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Newsela - Newsela is great for learners approaching intermediacy in reading because articles have an option to adjust the reading level. Newsela is also great because the homeroom teacher can assign articles to the class. Even though they read at a different level to the ELL learner, the student is still able to read and engage with the material and feel included and able to engage in the class discussion. 

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Newsela - Newsela is great for learners approaching intermediacy in reading because articles have an option to adjust the reading level. Newsela is also great because the homeroom teacher can assign articles to the class. Even though they read at a different level to the ELL learner, the student is still able to read and engage with the material and feel included and able to engage in the class discussion. 

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Newsela

https://newsela.com

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

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Newsela | Content and assessment platform

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Content Aligned To National & State Standard, Flexible To Support Relevant Curriculum. Find the Perfect Piece Of Content For Lessons. Go beyond the book.

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Browse CGP's KS2 Primary English books for pupils of all abilities! Including Study Books, Question Books, SAT Busters, Practice Papers, 10-Minute Tests and more.

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Translanguaging in Curriculum and Instrction

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Translanguaging in Curriculum and Instrction

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These are some resources I use when teaching my grade 1 students English. This website has access to a variety of different worksheet, which are suitable for EAL students.

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ESL-Kids - Flashcards, Worksheets, Games and Songs

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Free ESL resources for kids including flashcards, handwriting worksheets, classroom games and children’s song lyrics.

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Liveworksheets.com - Interactive worksheets maker for all

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Liveworksheets transforms your traditional printable worksheets into self-correcting interactive exercises that the students can do online and send to the

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https://www.hmhco.com/blog/free-graphic-organizer-templates

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Help your students classify ideas and communicate more effectively with these free graphic organizer templates, available for download. They can be used to structure writing projects and help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research, and brainstorming.

Printable Graphic Organizers

Select a blank graphic organizer from the following categories depending on your curriculum needs.

Sequence of Events

Main Topic and Key Details

Compare/Contrast

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Free Downloadable Graphic Organizer Templates

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Use these free graphic organizer templates to help your students communicate more effectively by classifying ideas, structuring writing projects, and more.

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more hands on activity. tactile learning, motor skills activities.

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Rounding Decimal Numbers Teaching Resources | TPT

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Browse rounding decimal numbers resources on Teachers Pay Teachers, a marketplace trusted by millions of teachers for original educational resources.

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Resources Resources - The Bell Foundation

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The Bell Foundation offers a comprehensive range of resources to support English as an Additional Language (EAL) and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teaching and development in UK and international schools and colleges, and the UK criminal justice system.

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appropriate listening materials to current affairs. Kids are losing the essence of fairytales

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Use to link to the UOI or to develop vocabulary about a specific topic. Model the speaking / language pattern together, with partners, etc... and extend to writing where possible. Low floor, high ceiling.

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Families, start reading! Educators, get it free MORE FEATURES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Personalize their daily reading. Daily age- and level-appropriate recommendations customized to their interests. Track progress. See what books your kid likes, time spent reading and more. Get content that grows with them. Quality books they'll love at every step of their reading journey.

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Youtube Ted Talks and other educational material but slowed down to .75 so the learner can listen at a speed they are able to engage with. 

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Youtube Ted Talks and other educational material but slowed down to .75 so the learner can listen at a speed they are able to engage with. 

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Follow up resource for EAL session at Edge Hill University, 21st October (Isabelle Jones)

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Learning Village Online subscription PAID

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Learning Village Online subscription PAID

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Online English language lessons for new-to-English learning across the curriculum

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A fun online English literacy learning platform dedicated to your students' success. Discover the joy of teaching and learning literacy within a world of wonder and engaging storytelling.

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LiteracyPlanet | Online Literacy Software

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LiteracyPlanet is the leading online English literacy platform that helps improve student learning outcomes through fun, engaging and curriculum-aligned exercises.

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Cannot answer with a yes or no - encourages thinking

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A fun online English literacy learning platform dedicated to your students' success. Discover the joy of teaching and learning literacy within a world of wonder and engaging storytelling.

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LiteracyPlanet | Online Literacy Software

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LiteracyPlanet is the leading online English literacy platform that helps improve student learning outcomes through fun, engaging and curriculum-aligned exercises.

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Instantly access over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids on Epic

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Get students to record themselves speaking so that they can listen back and edit sentences as appropriate.

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Read a short passage to children and ask them to summarise in their own words.

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Ideas for introducing new vocabulary and developing understanding.

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Give writing scaffolds to children whereby they can choose the words they want to use in each part of the sentence.

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Serving Multilingual Learners of All Ages

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​Have you ever walked into a classroom and heard a teacher say, "I love how quiet you all are. Keep it up."? Quiet classrooms are dangerous for English language learners and most other students as well. Talk is key to learning. If the goal is to lift the level of language, how can we do that in a quiet classroom? ​

A lot of research has been done on the amount of talk that takes place in an average classroom. Research has found that ELLs spend less than 2% of their school day improving their academic language! Unfortunately, the one doing the most talking is usually the teacher. And as we know...the one talking is the one learning. When we talk, we process, we negotiate, we internalize. Teachers are doing a lot of the work and students are zoning out.
To shift this workload and learning, students need to do the talking. As teachers, we should give students engaging topics and essential questions to discuss and turn it over to them. There are many ways to achieve a room full of students who are talking about the work. But I think as teachers, our biggest fear is that they won't talk about the work...they will get off topic or they won't talk at all. A secondary fear is that there is so much curriculum to cover that if we let them talk, it won't get covered. Here are 3 ways to ensure that your classroom talk is effective.
ONE. Be explicit in the talk structure and routine. Teach your students HOW to hold the talk conversation so that it is accountable. Students of all ages need to hear the teacher say that partners need to sit facing one another. They need to know that one person talks while the other(s) listen(s) and nod(s). They will need to see how the partners pass the conversation to one another. For example, when I'm finished talking, how do I let my partner know it's his/her turn? I might say, "What do you think?" In this day in age, kids are entrenched in technology, social media, and this lack of face to face communication leads us to the need for explicit instruction about conversation. Modeling what you expect is important. Model, model, model. Show your students what the conversation will look like and what it should not look like.
TWO. The question or topic you pick is key to the success of the conversation. If your district utilizes unit plans, they will include essential questions and enduring understandings. Those are excellent for selecting what you want your students to discuss. Just be sure that you have already exposed your students to the information. They can't talk about questions that they haven't studied yet. If your district does not use unit plans, you can look at the TEKS or state standards that your lesson is addressing. Take the standard and turn it into a question. Don't change the vocabulary in the question to make it "easier" for them to understand. Instead, teach them the vocabulary using visuals and synonyms if you need to. Once you have a question in mind, post it visually for your students. Otherwise, once you ask kids to discuss with their partner, you'll hear, "What are we supposed to talk about?" and then they will get off topic. Posting the question ensures that two modalities have been addressed: verbal/oral and visual. Those kids that need to hear it, heard it. Those kids that need to see it and read it, can!
THREE. Give them sentence stems or starters to propel their thoughts. ELLs are cognitively capable of answering questions and thinking deeply. They lack the English language. Sentence stems provide a scaffold and support for the structure of the sentence. Remember when you were first learning to ride a bike? Someone ran behind you holding the seat and keeping you balanced. Then when you were ready, they let go. That's what stems are like. Just like when learning to ride a bike, we all need a different amount of support. With beginner and intermediate ELLs, stems will be more basic. They also benefit from a word bank or visual/picture. Advanced and advanced high ELLs still need stems too. Their stems can be longer and push them to explain more.

Beginner: I see___.

Intermediate: I see ___, ___, and ___.

Advanced: Based on the experiment, I can conclude that....

Advanced high: One conflict developing in the book is...for example...

The document below is called Talking Heads. Meredith Alvaro, National Literacy Consultant, shared it with our district. It is a way to incorporate academic conversations in all content areas K-12. Using the steps described above. She suggests making a large chart out of the black line master Talking Heads and laminating it. Then adding in the question and sentence stems throughout the day in a different color using dry erase markers.
​If you are looking for more to read about talk, here are a few excellent resources: We are doing a true disservice to our students if we are not implementing a routine for them to practice using academic language in a structured way. Whether you use Talking Heads or another type of structured conversation is up to you. Just as long as students are discussing and using the vocabulary that you want them to use. Think about it this way...As parents, we go to the grocery store and buy the foods we know are good for our kids. When they are babies, we actually spoon feed it to them. As they grow older, they can feed themselves. But we still pick out and buy the food we want them to eat. Same with our students and the words, sentences, and vocabulary. We, as teachers, know the vocabulary that they should be using. We need to pick it out and place it on the board. Teach it to them and tell them they need to use it. Show them how to use it and expect it of them. Never expect it to happen naturally...it usually won't. Like kids at the grocery store...they will pick out the high in sugar foods (if you know what I mean)!

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​Have you ever walked into a classroom and heard a teacher say, "I love how quiet you all are. Keep it up."? Quiet classrooms are dangerous for English language learners and most other students as well. Talk is key to learning.

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English Exercises - Learn English with ESL Activities

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A collection of exercises for grammar, vocabulary, verbs, listening, reading, phonetic symbols and more. You can also access worksheets, audio stories, videos, and songs related to English.

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British Council online resources for all skills

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British Council online resources for all skills

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Gamification really engages children, especially games with an element of competitiveness. We have a whole set of card decks that we use to play matching or GoFish type of games that really help reinforce grammatical idiosyncrasies. 

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Gamification really engages children, especially games with an element of competitiveness. We have a whole set of card decks that we use to play matching or GoFish type of games that really help reinforce grammatical idiosyncrasies. 

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Use this resource to check comprehension, vocabulary and use of grammar. Students look at a picture and answer a specific comprehension question; answers are recorded and can be analysed.

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I also love using scaffolding to support grammar reinforcement. For example, when discussing literature or non-fiction articles, using sentence strips with blanks during discussions to ground and guide student responses. 

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I also love using scaffolding to support grammar reinforcement. For example, when discussing literature or non-fiction articles, using sentence strips with blanks during discussions to ground and guide student responses. 

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Students have their own sets of letters while a teacher or student models. Letter and sound patterns emerge and become clear as they manipulate the letters on their own. A mystery word at the end is motivating.

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EAL meeting PPT Feb 2024