Emma Thompson's EB/EL Classroom Toolkit & Explanation by Emma Thompson

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.

SOLOM Handout

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This SOLOM rubric can be used to help identify a student's understanding of oral comprehension, vocab, fluency, and other factors. This resource can be helpful for a teacher because it helps the teacher to look at each student's individual progress.

Oral Language Development and ELLs: 5 Challenges and Solutions

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This website looks at many concerns that some teachers may have when trying to help with oral language development. It provides certain scenarios to go with each concern to demonstrate how a teacher might go about that situaiton.

Transforming classroom management for ELLs: Strategies for success

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This article explains strategies that will help teachers be successful in classroom management for ELLs. A lot of the strategies explained are broad but good reminders when it comes to remembering the big picture for these students.

Transforming classroom management for ELLs: The issues

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This article explains that many ELLs come into the classrooms with experiences and preconceptions that hinder them from learning a new language. This is an important resource because it addresses that classroom management may look different for those students.

Supporting English Language Learners in Reading Workshop

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This chart looks at different scaffolds for common reading workshop activities for ELL specific students. It communicates where it can go wrong for those students and how to minimize that.

Using Cognates to Develop Comprehension in English

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This article looks at cognates as a way to help ELLs in their comprehension. This could be used as a great strategy when teaching language comprehension.

LO 1 Steps for Developing Language Objectives

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This video demonstrates to teachers how to make language objectives for ELL lesson plans. This can be used as a resource when a teacher needs guidance.

Language Objectives Handout

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This is a resource for teachers to use when coming up with language objectives for ELL lesson plans.

Sentence Frames in Math

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This article looks into sentence frames being integrated in math lessons, so that lack of language proficiency does not interfere with the math content.

Math Instruction for ELLs

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This website provides resources for teachers to use when teaching math to ELLs.

Integrating Language in STEM

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This document serves as a resource to teachers on how to integrate language learning in STEM content. It looks into scaffolding and lesson plan making for STEM concepts.

Science Writing Article

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This website serves as a resource to teachers when incorporating writing in science as a part of ELL development. There are real life examples linked to the website as well.

Preparing an Engaging Lesson in Social Studies

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This website looks into making a social studies lesson plan engaging to ELLs step by step which is a great resource to teachers.

Social Studies Scaffolding Video

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This video models scaffolds that can be used when teaching social studies to ELLs.

Assessing Students Chapter

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This chapter looks into assessing English language learners in a way that is equitable for students of varying proficiency levels.

Accommodation Resources

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This link lists different accommodations that ELL students can have when being assessed.

Assessing ELLs in Mainstream Classrooms

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This document provides many resources and ideas for assessing ELLs in engaging ways.

Formative Assessment Best Practices

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This document is serves as a resource to teachers for how to best create and give formative assessments to ELs.

Differences vs. Disabilities

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This chart is a resource to help teachers distinguish between language differences and disabilities so that errors are not made.

Tools to Address ELs with Disabilities

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This article provides tools for teachers on how to teach to ELLs who have disabilities.

Meeting the Needs of High-Potential ELLs

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This article gives a way to identify where the students are level wise in their high potential so that their needs can be met for ELLs.

TABS Guide

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This chart is a resource for teachers to use when trying to identify if an ELL is gifted compared to other student while disassociating from the language factor.

Technology Integration to Support ELLs

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This article provides many resources for teachers to use when wanting to integrate technology to support ELLs in their learning.

Resources for Computer-Assisted Learning

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This website provides a list of programs that assist in language learning that is user friendly. This can help me , as a teacher to keep students engaged by using different programs.

Academic Language Toolkit

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This serves as a tool for teachers to use when wanting to teach academic language to ELLs. This is important to help students transition into an academic setting.

Strategies for Teaching English Academic Language

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This article helps look into strategies on how to teach academic language to ELLs.

LPAC Framework

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This website serves as a resource in all things that involve a Language Proficiency Assessment Committee. It includes resources for parents and teachers that involve the law behind it and the paperwork required or recommended.

State Plan for Educating Emergent Bilingual Students

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This document communicates the requirement that schools have to provide ELLs an opportunity to be in either ESL or bilingual programs as well as the reasoning behind it. This can serve as a good reminder for me as a teacher in the future when needing clarification on what is required by law.