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6 Ways to Accommodate Instruction for ELs

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This is a great resource that has multiple links on how to support New Comers and beginning English Learners. Please click here for the link.

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Tip #7
Thinking Maps are visual aids to help scaffold students’ reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities. They support students in understanding demanding cognitive and linguistic tasks. Click here to see some examples and click here for the explanation of each map.

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Tip #6

Choice boards are great for providing options, but how can they be used strategically to promote language development? This choice board makeover provides scaffolding and choice! (Source: Twitter @michelleshory)

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Collaborating with a buddy: Be intentional with your student grouping

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Collaborating with a buddy: Be intentional with your student grouping

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Tip #5

Be mindful of how you group students. Give ELLs opportunities to work both with peers who speak their language as well as native English speakers.

Consider situations when using the home language might be beneficial.  On the other hand, there will be times when you want students to have more direct time to practice their English skills.  If students are practicing some new vocabulary words or specific language structures, putting students in mixed groups might make more sense.

Look for partners who will be patient and supportive of ELLs when pairing them with native English speakers.

Source:  ColorinColorado.org: 6 Strategies to Help ELLs Succeed in Peer Learning and Collaboration, 2021.

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Tip #4
Foldables are basically 3-D graphic organizers. Graphic organizers are great tools to help English Language Learners.

The Best Teacher Resources For “Foldables” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

110 Teaching with Foldables ideas

How to Fold Foldables

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Resources for Reading, Reading, Reading!

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Resources for Reading, Reading, Reading!

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Tip #3
Using sentence starters or frames can provide a scaffold to students' responses in speaking or writing. They provide a model of how words and phrases should look in a logical context. Using sentence starters or frames have been shown to be effective in writing fluency and speaking. Click here to see some examples.

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Book: The ELL Teacher's Toolbox by Ferlazzo and Sypnieski (2018)

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Book: The ELL Teacher's Toolbox by Ferlazzo and Sypnieski (2018)

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This book offers teachers a practical research-based guide to the instructional strategies that are appropriate for all students learning English. It includes 45 strategies that are designed to help students move forward academically.
Click here to learn more.

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Writer's Checklist for EL 1st and 2nd graders

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Writer's Checklist for EL 1st and 2nd graders

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6pCSB5s1vCGsqiYGCATsuMZRnnaEyQvFoXkMwH7Wlg/edit?usp=sharing

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Copy of 1st and 2nd Grade Narrative Writing Checklist

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Tip #2:
Visuals are helpful for EL students because they reduce anxiety when learning a new language and allow students to make connections with their native language.

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Book: Reading and Writing with English Learners (2020) by Gonzalez and Miller

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Book: Reading and Writing with English Learners (2020) by Gonzalez and Miller

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Reading & Writing with English Learners offers kindergarten through fifth grade reading and writing educators a user-friendly guide and framework for supporting English learners in balanced literacy classrooms.
This book offers strategies that can be used with the CPS literacy framework. It does talk about using the "Workshop" model for Reading and Writing, but the strategies can be implemented in any ELA framework.  Click on the link below to learn more.

https://www.readingwritingels.com/the-book

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Tip #1:

For beginning readers: Use active learning strategies, such as jumping jacks while reading sight words, jumping on one foot while spelling new words, or using your arm to tap the letter sounds and blend a word as shown in this video. Using Arms as Visuals