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Group projects (collaboration)

Outdoor & indoor experiments

Designate a job for all students during an experiment

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Allow partner work

Use graphics to explain content

Help students pronounce academic language

Guide students in creating word webs

Allow group work for performance assessments

Provide journals for students to keep science vocabulary definitions and examples

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Highlighting academic language

Discuss vocabulary words

Use charts and visuals

Provide sentence frames

Use demonstrations

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When preparing to teach a science lesson that will reach all of your students, despite their learning level, it is important to follow a planning guide. The guide provided in the article A Planning Guide for Differentiated Instruction, does a great job at breaking down the steps that one should take in preparation for a science lesson.

1. Know the content standards that you will be teaching

2. Identify concepts, skills and essential questions that students will  need to learn in order to reach the objective

3. Knowing all of your students and their different learning needs

4. Create demonstrations, have students do projects and have students truly explore

5. Create questions and have discussions with your students in regards to the content learned

6. Review data collected and have discussion with students that will help them support date with their own background knowledge and lives

7. Elaborate and extend by having students continue research on topic

8. Be sure to assess and evaluate students progress. Be sure to provide chances for students to re learn if needed

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Science is very beneficial for ELL because they are able to explain their own ideas and beliefs.

Concept column templates provides a guide for the sequence of language functions and vocabulary for ELL

Prior to teaching the students the lesson be sure to understand what type of thinking is going to be used so it is easier to correlate the language functions that will be used.

Sentence frames are also a great tool to use in lessons when teaching ELL. They assist students