Remake of EB/EL Classroom Toolkit & Explanation by Allison Stokes

ELPS Chart

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-13 16:29:40 UTC

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

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-13 16:29:40 UTC

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

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-13 16:29:40 UTC

Using Educational Technology — 21st century supports for English learners

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-13 16:34:43 UTC

This gives you an overview of the technological benefits and options for instructing English learners. It explains all the different features technology has to offer (auditory, visual, etc.).

Technology integration to support language development

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-13 16:36:28 UTC

This link gives insight into a type of learning instruction called in-flipped classroom. It talks on students watching videos at home, and then coming to the classroom to practice it.

Preparing an Engaging Social Studied Lesson for English Language Learners

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-13 16:37:35 UTC

This article goes into detail about how to prepare English Learner students for social studies lesson. They talk about activating background knowledge, looking at multiple perspectives, and teaching academic language and vocabulary.

Using science to develop ELL's Language Skills

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-13 16:38:36 UTC

This article talks about different scaffolding techniques you would use in a science classroom that would be beneficial for English Learning students. For example, graphic organizers, hands-on activities, drawing, labeling, etc.

7 Strategies for Teaching Math students who are learning English

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-13 16:41:18 UTC

This website is great, it gives 7 strategies for teaching math to students who are learning English. Some of those strategies include: using routine, focusing on mathematical vocabulary, sentence frames, visual models, etc.

4 strategies to help English learners master new math skills

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-13 16:41:58 UTC

This website gives advice for helping ELL students in the math classroom. For example, rereading a problem multiple times and then discussing it, building strong vocabulary skills, allow the student to use their home language first, and validate students prior knowledge.

Using ELL strategies in the science classroom

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-13 16:42:41 UTC

Similar to the first article, this one continues to give different scaffolding techniques that would be beneficial in a science classroom for ELL students. Some examples are student think pair share, vocabulary puzzles, fishbowl discussions, etc.

3 strategies to support English language learners in social studies

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-13 16:43:22 UTC

This website talks about the difficulties in teaching social studies to ELLs, and how there are things as teachers we CAN do to make it easier. They go over three strategies of: comprehensible input, SWIRL engagement, and structure output.

Language Difference vs. Disability

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-13 16:44:57 UTC

This document does a wonderful job of helping teachers to differentiate between language differences and disabilities. It is hard for a teacher to work with an ELL student who may be at a beginner proficiency and indicate whether they may require services, but this document helps to separate the two.

Tools and resources for addressing ELs with disabilities

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-13 16:45:44 UTC

This document talks about the necessity of quickly determining if an ELL student has a disability and some of the misidentifications in identifying a student as having a disability. It talks more in detail about the process of identifying an ELL student with a disability, and making sure that you are doing all that you can for following the students services for language and disability if required.

Comparing and Contrasting First and Second Language Acquisition: Implications for Language Teachers

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 00:42:42 UTC

This research article gave the ins and outs of the differences between first and second-language acquisition. It also gives various theories such as interlanguage theory and foreign language teaching advice.

First and Second Language Acquisition Theories

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 00:43:14 UTC

I liked this website as it would explain different theories in the sense of how it relates to your brain, but also how it helps ELL students. It suggested a lot of useful classroom management strategies.

Methods/Approaches of teaching ESOL: A historical overview

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 00:45:54 UTC

This book gives a more in-depth overview of the historical methods and approaches of ESOL. It essentially says what the PowerPoint did, but in a more detailed way.

The Journey Through Time: A Historical Overview of English Language Teaching Methods

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 00:46:58 UTC

This website talks about a lot of historical methods and approaches, but it also gives the core principles and teaching techniques. This website also gives the impact on language teaching as a side paragraph.

Oral Language Development and ELL's: 5 challenges and solutions

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 00:50:00 UTC

This article gives the 5 big challenges of oral language development with ELLs, but also gives a lot of helpful solutions and strategies. Some of those challenges include how to teach ELLs without feeling like you're holding back on the rest of the class, etc.

Developing Aural and Oral Skills of Beginner Learners of English as a Foreign Language Through Explicit Metacognitive Strategies Training

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 00:50:37 UTC

This research paper talks about the oral skills of beginning ELL students and the different metacognitive strategies. The goal is to teach these students until they become proficient enough to teach themselves.

Writing Strategies for ELL Students

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 00:56:10 UTC

This article discusses the different writing stages that you would go through to write a paper (pre-writing stage, drafting stage, etc.). In each section it would give strategies on how to teach the stages to an ELL student effectivley.

7 ELL Strategies for Reading Success

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 00:57:10 UTC

This article also goes into depth of the different stages of reading for all people. Next, it goes into detail about the 7 strategies for teaching reading to English Learners.

Inclusive Practices in Multilingual Classrooms

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 00:58:50 UTC

This article is about what teachers can do to make a mulitlingual classroom more inclusive for ELs/EBs students. The advice in the article embraces the students other language in the classroom, and allowing it to inform other students.

5 strategies for making the most of multilingual classrooms

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 01:00:02 UTC

This article gives 5 big strategies for being inclusive and embracing a multilingual classroom. The five strategies are: collaborate with teammates, take notes of strategies that are different in each book, coordinate with intervention specialists, keep the focus on the student in front of you, and use books simaltaneously.

Academic Language and ELLs: What Teachers Need to Know

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 01:01:49 UTC

This article starts with the basics of what even academic language is and why it is important. Afterwards in slowly transitions into social vs academic language and how to use it wisely when teaching.

Strategies for Teaching Academic Language to ELLs

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 01:04:10 UTC

In this website it talks more about the HOW to teach academic language rather than the WHY. It talks about steps for introducing academic language, strategies, resources, etc.

Language Objectives: The Key to Effective Content Area Instruction for English Learners

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 01:05:22 UTC

This website talks about what a language objective is, steps to make a language objective, how to implement the objective, and how to align it with content objectives. There are various examples used and step by steps on how to create these things.

Crafting Language Objectives for English Language Learners (ELLs)

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 01:05:56 UTC

This website focuses more on how to create a language objective. It is all about aligning it with the content objective, the level of the students proficiency, and identifying the specific domain (speaking, writing, reading, listening).

Encouraging and Sustaining ELL Parent Engagement

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 01:09:28 UTC

This article talks on the importance of parents being involved in an ELL students education and learning. It talks about different ways to get parents to participate, be engaged, and looking for alternative ways for involvement.

Supporting EL students and families to boost learning

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 01:11:20 UTC

This article begins with the research behind supporting ELL students and their families. It then begins with partnering with the parents in the success and support of their child, as well as resources for them.

Adapting Classroom Assessments for English learners

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 01:16:34 UTC

This resource is excellent on making sure your classroom is effective for ELLs and by doing that having fair summative assessments. This document lists various types of summative assessments, how to grade them, etc.

Next-Generation Summative English Language Proficiency Assessments for English Learners

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 01:18:10 UTC

This document talks about the importance of summative assessments for ELL students, but how it is difficult to create a test that you see as fair in content and in their language proficiency. It also gives tips on creating summative assessments for ELL students and how to create a fair environment.

Using Formative Assessment to Help English

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 01:18:36 UTC

This document is all about the importance of using formative assessments with ELL students to document how they are progressing in their proficiency. Formative assessments don't hold the intensity that a summative assessment does, so it gives the children a chance to try without the fear being there.

Supporting English Language Learners with Formative Assessments

allisonstokes67 — 2024-06-18 01:18:56 UTC

This article focuses on where to start with formative assessments, effective practices, collaboration, and ideas. Some of the ideas that this article offers are: journals/logs, exit slips, student teacher conferences, drawing, role playing, etc.