Remake of EB/EL Classroom Toolkit & Explanation by

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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40 Years Lexia

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 12:51:46 UTC

This website supports EB/ELs through academic conversations. The program includes speaking, listening and grammar for all subjects in school.

Colorin Colorado

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 13:02:33 UTC

Contains emotional support resources, resources for families to practice reading with their student at home, ESL strategies. It also contains classroom videos of educators teacher EB/ELs that teachers can refer to. The videos model explicit and detailed teaching.

Literacy Planet

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 13:16:18 UTC

Learning platform for students to practice grammar and syntax. Also has opportunities to practice phonics, reading, spelling, and comprehension. It is a game based approach to keep learning enjoyable.

Grammar Monster

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 13:18:50 UTC

This is a website that supports students with grammar. It provides free activities and tests so assess students knowledge and growth.

Buddy Reading/ Choral Reading

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 13:41:59 UTC

Buddy or choral reading when the EB/EL is partnered with someone who has a greater language proficiency helps them read at a higher level. It helps them be reminded to read with expression, at the proper pace, and helps them prevent/correct errors.

Readers Theater

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 13:51:12 UTC

Readers theater helps students practice oral language through read alouds in a fun way. Students can dress up and act out the characters. Teachers should be aware if a student has speaking anxiety, if so this may not be the best option.

IXL Learning

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 15:45:56 UTC

This is a great resource for struggling English language learning students. It provides many activities to help students understand language arts and how the English language is structured. Some examples include practice with adverbs and adjectives, capitalization, context clues, figurative language, grammar, letters, main idea, phonics, nouns, opinions, etc. Each section has many different activities for various grade levels. This resource would be great for additional practice during classroom free time, over the summer, or activities to practice at home.

English Grammar Help Website

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 15:48:40 UTC

This website provides options for games that will either assist with learning grammar or punctuation. They have games that specifically focus on punctuation, parts of speech, types of

sentences, phrases and clauses, quotation marks, capitalization, etc. These are great

activities to allow students to play during free time in school, or share them with parents so their students can practice at home as well. This will help English language learning students with speaking, reading, and writing.

ABCya

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 15:51:50 UTC

This website provides options for

games that will either assist with learning letters, numbers, etc. These are great activities to allow students to play during free time in school, or share them with parents so their students can practice at home as well. This will help English language learning students with speaking, reading, and writing. There is also I section that focuses on holidays which would be a great time to use around Halloween, Valentines, etc.

T-Chart Graphic Organizers

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 15:58:00 UTC

T-charts can be used to help differentiate phonemes such as short and long vowel sounds. This can help provide clarification to the student, understand the differences between the two, and limit confusion. Visual models are great for EB/ELs.

Multicultural Books In The Classroom

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 16:16:19 UTC

I will implement a variety of multicultural books into my book collection in my classroom so every student feels represented and seen. This would also create an opportunity for students to learn about other backgrounds they are unfamiliar with. I can also use these books for class read alouds.

Multicultural Day + Paper

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 16:21:32 UTC

I want to celebrate multicultural day by decorating my classroom and having students do research and write a short paper over a culture they are unfamiliar with. This will allow them to learn about other cultures while also building their literacy skills through research and their writing skills through writing their paper.

Sentence Stems

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 16:41:13 UTC

I would use sentence stems to help support students learning new and difficult academic language. This is a good way to scaffold so the student does not become overwhelmed why the vocabulary and thinking about creating full sentences on their own.

Graphic Organizers

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 16:49:55 UTC

Graphic graphic organizers can be helpful when learning difficult academic language. This is because students can use synonyms, definitions, description words, etc in the graphic organizer to hep connect to/learn the new academic word.

Background Knowledge

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 21:28:32 UTC

In order to write on any topic, the student must have background knowledge. Background knowledge can help EB/EL better understand what they will be writing about and will help their writing be more cohesive.

Wordsmyth website

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 21:36:08 UTC

This website helps find word's definition at the EB/ELs level. If a student is a beginner or advanced high, they can get a definition for the term that is appropriate for their language proficiency.

Concrete Visual Models

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 21:47:47 UTC

Concrete visual models are great for any level of English language proficiency. They make mathematical concepts more apparent, clear, and accessible.

Scaffolded Text

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 22:04:58 UTC

Science has many vocabulary words and the wording within textbooks is quite complicated and intimidating especially for EB/ELs. Using scaffolded text that makes the information more simple to understand without changing the meaning is a great way to support EB/ELs.

Side By Side Texts

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 22:08:13 UTC

Side by side texts is a great way to support EB/ELs with complicated science vocabulary who are strong in their first language. This can help them feel more comfortable, less intimidated, and also help grow their understanding wit the science concept.

Acting Out The Concept

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 22:14:19 UTC

Many social studies concepts are hard to grasp, especially for ELs since many of the concepts are more abstract. Explaining these concepts may be hard, but having students act them out or use a representation can help them comprehend much more easily

Structured Conversations with a Partner or Small Group

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Communicating with partners about the abstract ideas in social studies can provide clarification or fill in some gaps. Sometimes hearing a concept explained by multiple people can help students gain a better understanding.

Exit Tickets

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Exit tickets are a great way to assess students knowledge in a low pressure/low stress way. Teachers can easily identify areas of weakness where additional instruction may be helpful.

Language Portfolios

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 23:04:02 UTC

Language portfolios are formative assessments that help gather evidence of the progress students are making. These can be done across all content areas.

Content tests

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These are great for testing a students level of comprehension. You can see if they are able to understand and apply the material. They can be accommodated by changing the level of questions to match the students proficiency.

Summative presentations

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Through this teachers can learn how well the students grasped the information. The student should be able to demonstrate and properly communicate what they have learned. Teachers should be aware and take into account which students if any have speaking anxiety. They may prefer to teach directly to the teacher.

Building Vocabulary

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 23:23:24 UTC

Building a couple new vocabulary words to serve as a foundation is a great idea for EB/ELs. Vocabulary words related to the content area will help their understanding during the lesson.

Buddies/ Peer Tutoring

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A student who is not as proficient in English should be paired with a strong English speaker. They can discuss ideas and answer each others questions.

Toontastic

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 23:32:33 UTC

This is an app that allows kids to practice storytelling, dialogue, summarizing, etc. It is appropriate for all levels of language proficiency.

Using Music During Reading

ashleighodom — 2024-06-24 23:41:19 UTC

Teachers can help engage students and make them feel more comfortable by incorporating music. For example, students can sing poems etc.

Using drama in the classroom

ashleighodom — 2024-06-25 00:00:59 UTC

Teachers can have students act out the concepts they are learning in class. This keeps them engaged, ensures they comprehend the material, and gets them interacting with the lesson.