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This strategy helps develop reading fluency. Students participate in oral reading specific parts in scripts. The scripts usually include dialogue and students are not required to memorize their part.
Advantages:

Promotes fluency.

Learning to read with expression and dialect.

Builds confidence and comfortability with reading out loud.

Disadvantages:

Students may have anxiety when it comes to reading aloud.

If students don't get enough time to practice they may not do well, then be discouraged about reading aloud.

Scaffold for ELL:
Be conscious of who gets what part in the script.  Give student with ELL more time to practice and reread their part.

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Students need a variety of formats for writing. With this writing strategy, students develop an understanding of what their writing can do. This includes changes the readers thoughts or actions.
Advantages:

Variety of formats is good for developing writers.

Helps students build reasoning skills.

Understanding the persuasive nature they are already exposed to.

Disadvantages:
Some students writing skills may not be developed enough for this.
Some students may be rude or inappropriate with their reasoning.
Scaffold for ELL:
Work in small groups, talk about a topic that may be passionate for them.

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This strategy emphasizes the sharing of writing in the revision stage. This can occur in small groups, pairs, or just with the teacher.  Advantages:

This is a way to get immediate feedback.

Sharing writing improves writing.

Can increase motivation to revise.

Experience a wide range of writing abilities and topics.

Non-threatening.

Disadvantages:

Some students may not want to share their writing.

Students may become embarrassed and discouraged.

Scaffold for ELL:
Have deep consideration of the student's abilities. Three other activities that are beneficial for ELLS are Daily News, dialogue journals, persuasive essays.

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This is a writing strategy that helps students understand their role as a writer. This includes the audience they'll address, the varied formats, and the topic.  The teachers role in this is to motivate the students to write creatively and look from different perspectives.
Advantages:

This can be implemented before, during, or after reading.

This can be used individually, with small groups, or in a whole class setting.

Emphasizes different viewpoints.

Responding to prompts.

Disadvantages:

Students may not want to give their opinion.

Students may not like the prompt given.

Scaffold for ELL:
Orally discuss the prompt and the assignment beforehand.

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This learning strategy assists students in comprehension of a text.  The teacher creates a guide of prompts that will help them understand a difficult chapter or section better.
Advantages:

Can be developed for a variety of reading material/levels.

Helps students follow the main points of the text.

Promotes active thinking.

Promotes purpose for reading.

Disadvantages:

Students who may be a low reading level could get discouraged.

Scaffolding for ELL:
Vary the difficulty of the prompts.  Let students listen to book via recording or having someone read it to them.

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This strategy is when students become the teacher in a small group reading session. Four strategies being used through these sessions are summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting. The
students take turns assuming the role of teacher, which leads the dialogue for the group.
Advantages:

Makes students use their own thought process.

Students learn to be actively involved in conversation.

Comprehension is easier.

Disadvantages:

Some students may not like being "in charge"

Time consuming.

Scaffolding for ELL:
Have students write out questions they may have.  Pair students in a way that will benefit the ELL.

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This strategy allows the students to take turns reading a text, pause, and summarize the main points.  This usually happens after each paragraph in the text.
Advantages:

Helps students develop their reading comprehension skills.

Can be used individually, in small groups, or as a whole class.

Disadvantages:

Some main points might be missed.

Working with a peer, someone may be doing all of the work.

Scaffold for ELL:
Write out the main points instead of just talking about them, give student text in their native language.

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This is a comprehension strategy that is implemented before the students read a text. The goal of this strategy is to activate students' schema and make them interested in a new topic. Basically, students are given statements in which they can agree or disagree or find true or false. These statements are in relation to a text.
Advantages:

Keeps students interested.

Teaches how to make predictions.

Builds curiosity about a specific topic.

Disadvantages:

Students might be discouraged if they predict incorrectly.

Scaffolding for ELL:
These guides can be completed orally, if that is how the specific student understands best.

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This strategy lets each student become an "expert" or "specialist" in one aspect or topic that is relevant. They become an expert by meeting with a group and each person gets assigned a topic. All of the students from the different groups that have the same topic meet and research it together. After that, they all go back to their original group and share what they have learned.
Advantages:

Having each student responsible for knowing and learning something dedicates them to research.

Students are responsible for their own learning AND for teaching their group.

Helps build comprehension.

Improves listening.

Disadvantages:

Time consuming.

Students might have anxiety to share with group.

Students might have found information that is incorrect.

Scaffolding for ELL: Make

sure students have participated in small group learning and know what is happening.  Use a graphic organizer to organize the information that makes sense to the student.  Rephrase questions when there seems to be confusion.

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A meeting in the beginning of the day that goes over anything that may need to be discussed. Students can provide input and tell the class about whatever they feel necessary. This helps build a community and family-like feel in the classroom.
Advantages:

Some students may not have that family at home so giving them the support at school can make them feel comfort.

Helps students regulate their emotions before the day starts.

Puts the students in the tone they need to be in to foster their best learning.

Disadvantages:

Takes about 20-30 minutes for a thorough meeting.

May take time away from other things needing to get done.

Scaffolding for ELL: If there is an ELL student in your classroom, writing down the key points that you will be mentioning on paper will help them follow along with the rest of the class. Always encourage them to share and take wait time so they get the chance to try and understand.