Carolina Molinas INST 363 EB/EL Classroom Toolkit by

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Language objectives help point out language-specific goals within content learning.

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Language objectives help point out how language and the content combine within the lesson.

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Modeling is a great strategy to help oral development for EBs/ELs. Modeling is when a person demonstrates correct language structures and vocabulary use. For instance, if a student says "I go school," you can model "I go to school."

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Sentence Frames are also a good resource. Sentence Frames Provide students with sentence starters or frames to encourage language use. For example, "I think that...," "In my opinion...," or "I agree/disagree because..."

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A strategy for reading and writing development are sentence stems. Sentence Frames can provide students with sentence starters or frames to encourage language use. For example, "I think that...," "In my opinion...," or "I agree/disagree because..."

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Group Readings are great for reading and writing development within the classroom.

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Teaching academic English within the classroom can rely on a scaffolding practices. Sentence Frames can provide students with sentence starters or frames to encourage language use. For example, "I think that...," "In my opinion...," or "I agree/disagree because..."

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Since teaching academic English often relies on scaffolds, increasing funds of knowledge for EBs/ELs is vital. Word walls are a great resource when teaching academic English.

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Pronuncian is an app that helps English learners improve their pronunciation with lessons focused on specific sounds, stress, and intonation patterns.

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Forvo is a website that allows users to hear native speakers pronounce words, which is particularly helpful for learning correct pronunciation in different accents.

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It is important to understand the scope and funds of knowledge of EBs/Els before giving a formative assessment.

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It is important to consider if a formative assessment is testing a student's understanding of a concept, or their understanding of English. Providing students with the proper resources is vital.

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For math learning for EBs/ELs, vocabulary and symbol-action relationships are vital for student success. Word walls are vital in teaching symbol-action correspondence.

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One way to ensure a student isn't being tested for language ability rather than math ability is to provide a student with an exam in their native language, along with an exam in their non-native language. This allows students to have a safety net when doing complex math in a language that is not their own.

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The BVAT is an ability test used to look at a child's GT level within classrooms.

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With EBs/ELs, it is vital that these students get exams that do not look at their language level, but rather their GT level. This presentation gives a good dive into the BVAT.

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TABS and NNAT

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There are 4 principles of family engagement.

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Literacy Services are important when considering parental outreach for Ebs/Els.

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ASCD is a great resource for understanding laws in your state related to EBs/ELs.

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As an educator, it is also important to advocate for your students learning, and ensure they are receiving all the proper resources.

academic language proficiency

molina24_1 — 2025-05-05 23:42:53 UTC

I believe this video is beneficial to include because it gives important insight show students may seem proficient in their English but when it comes to taking their tests they fail. This is because academic language and everyday language are different, so it is important to include cognitive academic language in class as well.

Reading enagement

molina24_1 — 2025-05-05 23:45:50 UTC

https://minds-in-bloom.com/modified-guided-reading-for-ells/-I wanted include this link to a blog that includes different engaging worksheets and templates to encourage reading in my future classroom.

language objectives

molina24_1 — 2025-05-05 23:49:19 UTC

I wanted to add this ELPS chart because I can use it in the future when creating my lesson plans. I can utilize this chart to find language objectives that align with my content objectives.

molina24_1 — 2025-05-05 23:52:56 UTC

I wanted to include this blog because it contains many strategies that can help emergent bilinguals better understand science and its language.

Math strategies

molina24_1 — 2025-05-05 23:54:40 UTC

I wanted to include this blog because it gives me future strategies to help accommodate and give my emergent bilingual students a better understanding of math.

Comparison of language or disability

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 00:01:23 UTC

I included this link because it is important to know whether your student is behind because of language proficiency or a learning disability. As a future Special education teacher this link will be useful for me to look bak on if I suspect a student might have learning disability.

Reading strategies

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 03:31:13 UTC

I included this article because it includes instructional strategies how to read through five components. By being knowledgable of these components I can use these strategies in my future classroom to accommodate my english learners.

Academic language function toolkit

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 03:35:51 UTC

I included this article because it dives into how to develop academic language for all content areas. This will help me if i am struggling to adjust my students to academic language and help me find ways to teach academic language that fits my students needs and proficiency level.

Casual explanation

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 03:40:19 UTC

I included this video because it demonstrate ways to introduce academic langauge to younger students in a way that is less intimidating and more casual and less stressful.

Math instruction for english language learners

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 03:43:19 UTC

I included this article to look back on when I need help on accommodating my lesson plans to my english learners specifically with math.

Myths regarding ELLs and Special education

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 03:51:58 UTC

I included this article because it includes myths when it comes to ELL and special needs. I believe this article is important to look back on to make sure i do not generalize students or label a student based on stereotypes.

Duolingo

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 03:54:44 UTC

I believe duo-lingo is an amazing technology that can help students with their proficiency level. This app can be accessed on any device and is more game like which makes it less overwhelming.

Digital storytelling

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Digital storytelling is also a great resource for EB/ ELL. This way of storytelling is more engaging and helps build communication and critical thinking skills.

Oral language development challenges and solutions

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I included this article because it shares what the challenges are when it comes to building a students oral language and what strategies i can use in my future classroom to solve these challenges.

SOLOM

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 04:01:15 UTC

I included this article because SOLOM is a way to rate a students oral proficiency. By using this I can see where my student is at when it comes to oral proficiency and based on this rating I can then decided what strategies would best help the student based on their proficiency.

Meeting the lingustic needs of high potential english language learners

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-this article tells teachers exactly what to expected with gifted students and how to meet their needs. This is useful if you have a gifted student so they are not abandoned or overlooked.

TABS: Frasier Traits, Attributes and Behaviors

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I wanted to include this chart because it will be something I can look back on if I suspect giftedness in my student. This chart gives me different types of extraordinary potential to find out if my students have this potential and what type.

What is a summative assessment?

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 14:53:30 UTC

This video gives a great description of what a summative assessment is and what they can look like in your classroom. This video can be used in the future to see if my assessment is truly summative and what some options are for these assessments.

Summative assessments

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 14:57:33 UTC

I wanted to upload this powerpoint because I believe it includes a lot of good information on what summative assessments are and how i can make them more beneficial or accommodate them to my ELL/ EBs.

Alternative assessments

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 15:01:10 UTC

I believe this video will be beneficial to look back on because it includes alternate assessments that could help accommodate my future ELLs.

Formative assessments powerpoint

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 15:03:31 UTC

I wanted to include this whole powerpoint because I believe it contains a lot of valuable information on what makes a good formative assessment and different ways to measure and monitor the proficiency level of my students.

Grammer translation method

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 15:12:04 UTC

This is one of the predominant methods of teaching a second language. This method involves having students analyze and memorize rules of grammar, then translate sentences between the two languages. I have seen this used in many of my high school Spanish courses and although it does work it does not usually stick with the student past high school. With this information I will try to include more beneficial methods in my class and try to avoid grammar translation methods. (page 12 of powerpoint).

TPR

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 15:15:00 UTC

I wanted to use this video because it perfectly demonstrates how Total physical response can be used I the classroom. I noticed that TPR can be very useful to help students with a lower language proficiency by acting out words this can give students a better understanding so I will be utilizing TPR in my future classroom.

How to be an advocate

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 15:19:37 UTC

This article shows all the different ways you can advocate for your english language learners. This can give me ideas on the future of ways I can help my students.

Advocacy

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 15:21:07 UTC

This video includes people describing their advocacy and how to be an advocate I think this beneficial for inspiration to be an advocate for your students.

Family & community engagement for EB/ELs

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 15:26:17 UTC

This article provides ways to get family's to engage in their childs education specifically for immigrant families. I believe this article is extremely beneficial because many immigrant families struggle to engage in their students due to language barrier so these strategies can help.

Working together

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 15:28:38 UTC

This article provides different ways families and educators can work together to help the students. This article can be beneficial when I am struggling with ways to get the families engaged.

Inclusive practices

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 15:32:04 UTC

This article is beneficial to look back on when I want to find ways to make my classroom more inclusive and welcoming to all my students.

Strategies for inclusive classrooms

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 15:35:23 UTC

This blog is great to get strategies to create an inclusive classroom. Some of these include translanguaging and scaffolding.

Sentence structure

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 15:39:19 UTC

This blog is great to teach step by step how to instruct kids when learning sentence structure. It also teaches you how to slowly build the difficulty.

Worksheets

molina24_1 — 2025-05-06 15:41:34 UTC

This website contains many different worksheets that specifically help ESL students to practice different english principles such as verbs, nouns, past tense, etc. These worksheets will be very useful in my future classroom.