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What have you been thinking about? What have you experimented with

Feel free to drop any snapshots of student artifacts of learning, your classroom space, or a scaffold that reflect things you have been working into your classroom!

• Hexagonal Thinking: A Colorful Tool for Discussion

• Socratic Seminar: Read, Write, Think

• Socratic Seminar: Facing History

• Discourse Strategies with Jeff Zwiers

• Cultivating Discourse

  
  

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• 60 Second Traverse Strategy

• Scientist Circle

• Discussion Mapping Strategy

• Building Perspective Through Meaningful Discussion

• Implementing Socratic Seminars

• Discourse Strategies for Inquiry Science

• Vocabulary Strategies in Math

• Visual Dictionary 

• Teaching Academic Vocabulary to English Learners

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• Word Splash

• Translanguaging During Word Inquiry

• Tier 2 Vocabulary Strategy Instruction

• WIDA Guiding Language Principles 🔗

• Questions about Immersion 🔗

• 6 Principles for Effective ELL Instruction 🔗

• Two Way Immersion Glossary 🔗

• What is Content Integrated Learning? 🔗

• Key Principles for ELL Instruction 🔗

• The Costs of English  Only Education 🔗

• Why UDL for ELL Learners 🔗

• UDL Guidelines 🔗

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• Language Immersion 🔗

• Universal Design for Learning 🔗

• Using Realia to Build Background Knowledge

Reading:

• Realia and Manipulatives

• The British Council: Using Realia

• Visual Scaffolding Tips for ELLs

• Three Types of Scaffolding: There’s a Scaffold for That

• Why Are Visual Tools Important for Helping ELL Students Learn English?

• Offer ways of customizing the display of information

  
  

• Oracy in the Classroom: Strategies for Effective Talk

• Rotating Review with Inquiry Science

• 60 Second Strategy: Traverse Talk

• Inside/Outside Circles

• Building Background Knowledge

• How to Connect ELLs Background Knowledge to Content

When you try it out with students, come back and reflect! How did it go? How might you iterate?