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Imagine Learning EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum Guided Tour

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Welcome to Imagine Learning EL Education!

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Grade 2, Module 2, Unit 2 Letter to Families

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Each unit includes a guide that explains key ideas and offers practical suggestions to support students at home.

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We are so excited to help in your journey of reviewing EL Education with Imagine Learning! Please use this padlet to access valuable information of various aspects of the program. As you move left to right, some sections will have vertical scrolling capability, where you can find even more valuable information. Should you have any questions, please reach out to your account executive.

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Reading Foundational Skills for Grades K-2

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Reading Foundational Skills for Grades K-2

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Close Read-Aloud in the Primary Grades, Part 2- Deeper Analysis and Culminating Task

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Created by teachers for teachers, the Imagine Learning EL Education curriculum is a content-based, research-informed, core language arts program for Grades K-8.

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K-2 Skills Block: Spelling to Complement Reading

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This video shows 1st graders using Spelling to Complement Reading, an instructional practice in the K-2 Reading Foundations Skills Block, that helps students examine the reciprocal relationship between spelling and reading words. First students listen to a word read aloud, repeat the word, and segment the word into the phonemes they hear. Next they use sound boxes to analyze each word for the number of phonemes and graphemes. Finally students hear the words read aloud again, and write them from memory. This instructional practice is used in 1st and 2nd grades.

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A Guide to Supporting English Language Learners

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A Guide to Supporting English Language Learners

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Grade 2, Module 2, Unit 2 Family Letter in Spanish

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Home Connections - Family Resources Spanish

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Home Connections - Family Resources Spanish

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Each unit includes a guide that explains key ideas and offers practical suggestions to support students at home.

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Jared Watson

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Implementing the K-2 Reading Foundations Skills Block

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This video shows the K-2 Skills block in action in Brenna Schneider and Katie Benton's Kindergarten and Second Grade classrooms at Lead Academy in Greenville, South Carolina.  It shows how the teachers prepare, assess and group students, select and manage materials, and foster students' self-management and smooth transitions during differentiated small group time. The video addresses common questions and challenges teachers face when implementing this component of the EL Education Language Arts curriculum at grades K-2, in particular how to make most strategic use of the differentiated small group time.

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Our EL Education K-8 comprehensive program is classroom ready and enhanced with exclusive features to make instruction come alive.

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Each unit provides a family support video which includes background information on the module topic, vocabulary explanations, and information on writing assignments and performance tasks all designed to help families and caregivers successfully support their student with learning at home. These videos also have closed captioning in Spanish.

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Grade 2, Module 2 Overview Video- Learning through Science and Story- Fossils Tell of Earth's Changes

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Close Read-Aloud in the Primary Grades, Part 1- First Read, Focus Question, and Interactive Analysis

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The EL Education Skills Block addressed sound walls by providing our printable Articulatory Gestures Chart that can support building an engaging and interactive sound wall.

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The Science of Learning a Second Language

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The Science of Learning a Second Language

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What I did:
Focused on grammar over vocabulary. My grammar-based direct instruction curriculum emphasized understanding the structure and syntax of English over the meanings of individual words. I was teaching my students to identify the parts of speech of words they didn't know based on their placement in a sentence they also didn't understand. It was frustrating for all of us.

Why that didn't work:
When you're first learning a new language, you naturally gravitate to the words and phrases that are important to you. If you're traveling, "please" and "thank you" are useful. If you are learning a new style of cooking, you'll want to learn the names of foods. And if you're a baby, your first word will be the most important object in your world (usually 'dada' or 'mama,' or in my son's case, 'panda'). Once you learn those words, you can then build the understanding needed to notice how they are placed in a sentence.

My students showed me this as they repeatedly asked me what words meant, while I unsuccessfully tried to reroute them back to the grammar concept we were learning. Finally, I gave in and started "What does it mean" Wednesdays. They collected English words and phrases they encountered in their daily lives - at work, on the bus, at the doctor's office - and we spent 30 minutes crowdsourcing the definitions. This was easily the most engaged my students were all week - because it mattered to them.

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The Science of Learning a Second Language

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Learning a new language is not easy. Trading outdated instruction for science of reading-backed techniques can help give English language learners the skills they need for biliteracy.

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Tips for organizing your station for Skills Block

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Teacher Tips_ Student Groupings in Skills Block

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The EL Education Skills Block addressed sound walls by providing our printable Keyword Letter Cards that can support building an engaging and interactive sound wall.

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Decodable Lesson- Whole group Chaining Lesson - 15 min

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Decodable Lesson- Whole group Chaining Lesson - 15 min

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Skills Block Scope & Sequence - Kindergarten

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Skills Block Scope & Sequence - Kindergarten

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Use this guide to explore lesson on Imagine Learning Classroom that showcase writing instruction and reading comprehension strategies!