Teach students and model how to express personal needs and safety needs 

Teach the structure and form of a short sentence

Teach the structure and form of a question

Teach students and model how to respond to respond to questions using phrases and then progress to short sentences

Teach students how to express an idea and an opinion

Use a graphic organizer, input charts, word walls, or other type of support to brainstorm ideas and opinions.

Use language frames to support EL students in expressing ideas and opinions.

Use grouping strategies to support EL in engaging in meaningful conversations with peers and others.  

Word bank with visuals

Explicit teaching of vocabulary and phrases

Practice and repetition using different modalities (oral, written, reading, etc.)

Teach students to listen attentively to read-alouds and oral presentations

Teach students how to ask questions and answer questions

Teach students common text structures, like description, cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence, and problem and solution

Teach students text elements like setting, characters and the language needed to demonstrate comprehension of these ideas or topics in texts

Teach students words or phrases that indicate what kind of text structure students will encounter when they read narrative, descriptive, expository, or argumentative text

Teach students to describe text structures in their reading and writing

Teach student how a text is organized 

Teach students to identify and describe central ideas in texts

Teach students to summarize central ideas 

Teach the structure and form of a simple sentence

Use a graphic organizer, input charts, word walls, or other type of support to read more complex texts

Teach and model how to use visual clues in graphics and pictures to support reading complex text and comprehending information 

Teach the structure and form of a simple sentence

Teach students how to ask questions and answer questions

Teach students the structure of a question

Teach students the structure of a basic statement

Teach students to form short responses and long

Teach students words or phrases that they can use to sustain information exchanges

Use graphic organizers, input charts, word walls, or other type of supports to form highly structured interactions

Use cognates to show similarities between their native language and English, where applicable

Demonstrate differences and similarities in language structure, for example, a sentence in English compared to a sentence in Spanish

Demonstrate using social vocabulary for a specific purpose or audience

Demonstrate using academic vocabulary for a specific purpose or audience

Teach domain-specific vocabulary

Demonstrate how to use domain-specific vocabulary for precision

Teach everyday vocabulary and how to use it

Teach academic vocabulary and how to intentionally use it in relation to a topic

Use graphic organizers, input charts, word walls, or other type of supports to support students in using different kinds of language

Teach students connecting words and how to use them to produce comprehensible sentences

Teach students words or phrases to be comprehensible when they are describing, informing, recounting, explaining, and so on

Teach how to use verbs and a variety of verb types

Teach how to use nouns and noun phrases 

Teach how to use adverbials to expand sentences

Teach subordinate conjunctions and how students can use them to combine clauses for creating complex sentences with precision and intentionality

Teach how to condense clauses to create precise and detailed sentences

Demonstrate using academic vocabulary for a specific purpose or audience

Demonstrate how to use domain-specific vocabulary for precision

Teach everyday vocabulary and how to use it 

Teach academic vocabulary and how to intentionally use it in relation to a topic

Use graphic organizers, input charts, word walls, or other type of supports to support students in using different kinds of language