Remake of EB/EL Classroom Toolkit & Explanation by Hannah Smith

ELPS Chart

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English Language Proficiency Standards - these are important to include in the language objectives when lesson planning and for determining which language domains are begin addressed with the lesson.

PLDs

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Proficiency Level Descriptors - these are important to refer to when monitoring the progress of the English learners. They also serve as reminders of what students can do at each level of proficiency within each domain of language.

ELPS Chart

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Every Student Succeeds Act 2015

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This legislation supports students who are learning English in secondary language programs.

Lau v Nichols (1974)

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 21:35:54 UTC

Schools MUST provide English language instruction to non-English students to help them succeed.

Texas Education Agency (TEA) Bilingual and ESL Programs

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 21:37:45 UTC

This link will take you straight to the TEA website for second language programs, references, and strategies.

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 21:38:48 UTC

I chose to add this because it provides great guidelines and rubrics on assessing ESL students.

Cummin's Interdependent Hypothesis

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 21:40:06 UTC

This is important because it is the idea that L1 and L2 are interconnected. It is best to practice and learn both.

Krashen's Second Language Acquisition Theory

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 21:42:36 UTC

Outlines 5 main hypothesis for language learning. The link will directly take you to information on them.

Total Physical Response (TPR)

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 21:44:11 UTC

A great strategy to use and gets student's to use multiple functions at once. Students will complete a task in relation to commands by the teacher.

Project-Based Learning

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 21:45:18 UTC

This is my favorite strategy because I am a future science teacher. I will be incorporating this into my classroom.

Productive Talk Moves- revoicing, repeating, reasoning, adding on, and waiting

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 21:47:07 UTC

This strategy is perfect for beginners as well as middle-level. I like this strategy because it is simple, yet effective. I used this strategy while learning Spanish.

Guide to Image Descriptions

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 21:49:09 UTC

I love this strategy because it can be used across all content areas. Students also practice creativity during this exercise.

Syllable Segmentation and Clapping Strategy

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 21:50:35 UTC

A great beginner strategy. I am very familiar with this across my classes. I love this video for younger kids!

Decodable Texts

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 21:52:26 UTC

Giving students texts they can read and decode successfully. It is also great to incorporate topics from a level above for the student to make progress in acquisition! The link will take you straight to Readingrockets for some examples of decodable texts.

Culturally Responsive Teaching

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 21:54:04 UTC

Including everyone's identity or things that all your students can relate to personally is very important. This enhances student's engagement as well as give them a sense of belonging. VERY IMPORTANT strategy I will be implementing in my classroom.

Color in Colorado ELL Science Strategies Website

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 21:56:57 UTC

I chose this resource because it is a great article over how to implement ELL learning in the science classroom. It even goes into depth on how to plan your lesson around it.

Learning for Justice

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 22:00:49 UTC

This website is amazing for all teachers to have access too. It covers the disparities and inequalities we are facing in our country and around the world and how this affects and relates to the culture and environment of the classroom. Many different resources available via that website for cultural teachings.

Sentence Frames

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 22:07:26 UTC

I chose this resource because I had a lot of practice with the strategy this semester throughout my lesson plan. I love sentence frames and I think it's a great strategy for helping English learners build upon what they already know.

Graphic Organizers

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 22:12:16 UTC

As a future science teacher, graphic organizers will be used in my classroom to further understanding of both the content and language used in the lesson. It is a great strategy for people who learn visually- like me!

Can Do Descriptors

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 22:31:06 UTC

A great website that lists objectives and lesson plans for ESL students and classrooms.

Integrating All Language Domains

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By including each domain, students will achieve acquisition in a structured manner. Each domain interrelates with itself.

A Teacher's Role

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 23:03:03 UTC

I included this slide from the Math Methods for ELs because it serves as a great guide for how to teach math to ESL students.

The PUIAW Method

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 23:08:17 UTC

This process prepares students to engage in problem solving in mathematics! This strategy is great and is easy to remember.

Literacy Strategies for Science

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 23:12:03 UTC

I chose to add this to my toolkit because these are great guidelines I can follow in my future science classroom.

National Events Resource

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 23:15:20 UTC

This website is great to cover ongoing and current events in a social studies classroom.

Higher Order Thinking in Social Studies Strategies and Skills

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These skills must be taught in order for students to produce higher order thinking and understanding.

Feedback for Formative Assessments Guidelines

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 23:20:31 UTC

I added this to my toolkit because I believe that effective feedback and guidance is very important when supporting a student's learning.

Formative Assessment Tools and Ideas!

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 23:22:47 UTC

This website is AMAZING because it provides many different types of assessments in different forms and medias.

Summative Assessment Standards in Texas

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 23:25:35 UTC

This is an important resource to come back to because it shows the official standards for ELs as well as all students.

Summative Assessment Examples and Alternatives

hannahs813 — 2025-04-29 23:29:04 UTC

A great resource for guidelines and alternatives for summative assessments.