• How Bilingual Brains Switch Between Languages (3 min)  🔗

• How Languages Shape the Brain (5 min) 🔗

• What’s Going On in the Brain of a Bilingual Child (7 min)  🔗

• The Languages We Speak Changes the Colors We See (3 min)  🔗

• From Monolingual Mindsets to the Multilingual Turn: Paradigm Shifts for EAL 🔗

• How the Languages We Speak Shape the Way We Think  (11 min)  🔗

• Language Acquisition: An Overview  (9min) 🔗

• Second Language Acquisition Theories and What It Means for Teacher Instruction 🔗

• Key Concepts for Language Development (4min) 🔗

• Simultaneous and Sequential Bilingualism 🔗

• Krashen’s Theory of Second Language Acquisition (7 min) 🔗

• Growing Language and Literacy (15min)  🔗

• Forgetting My First Language (11 min) 🔗

• Honoring Students Stories: Identity Texts to Write and Diverse Texts to Read 🔗

• Sustaining a Critical Stance on Language and Identity with Bilingual and Multilingual Students 6-12 (1 hour) 🔗

• Funds of Knowledge 🔗 (2min)

  
  

What might that look like in our cotaught lessons?

• Principle 1: Literacy Across the Curriculum

  • Infusing Authentic Communication 🔗 

  • Teaching Reading Across Gradual Release of Responsibility  🔗

  • Beth's Favorite Academic Vocabulary Strategies 🔗

• Principle 2: Translanguaging

  • What is Translanguaging? 🔗

  • The Transformative Power of Translanguaging 🔗

  • The Home Language: An English Language Learners' Most Valuable Resource 🔗

  • Nurturing a Rich First Language-the Key To Success in School 🔗

  • Translanguaging During Vocabulary 🔗

• Principle 4: Differentiation:

  • A Starter Kit for Differentiation 🔗

  • Instructional Playlists 

  • 3 Ways to Differentiate In Any Class 🔗

  • Differentiation Roundup 🔗

  • Differentiation for English Language Learners 🔗

  • Differentiation: What is it? What is it not? 🔗

  • Culturally Responsive Differentiation Strategies 🔗

  • 18 Teacher Tested Strategies for Differentiated Instruction 🔗

  • Differentiation Central: Institute of Academic Diversity 🔗

  • Guided Reading with Jenna 🔗

  • Guided Reading: Small Group Instruction 🔗

• Principle 5: Scaffolding

  • What is Scaffolding and How Does It Help? 🔗

  • Scaffolding Instruction for English Learners 🔗

  • Kagan Cooperative Learning Strategies 🔗

  • Harvard Project Zero Thinking Routines 🔗

  • Scaffolding Success 🔗

  • 4 Strategies for Scaffolding for ELs 🔗

  • 6 Scaffolding Strategies to Use with Your Students 🔗

  • Scaffolding for CCS 🔗

  • Instructional Scaffolding with Graphic Organizers 🔗

• Principle 6: Formative Assessment

  • 7 Keys to Effective Feedback 🔗

  • How to Reduce Racial Bias in Grading 🔗

  • Formative Assessment, Common Core and ELLs 🔗

  • Assessment for ELLs 🔗

  • Using Informal Assessment for English Learners 🔗

  • 7 Smart Fast Ways to Do Formative Assessment 🔗

  • WestEd: Focusing Formative Assessment on the Needs of English Language Learners 🔗

  • Formative Assessment for ELLs 🔗

  • Supporting English Language Learners with Formative Assessment Strategies 🔗

• 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 🔗

• Language Immersion 🔗

• Universal Design for Learning 🔗

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Based on the phonemic inventories, linguistic features and phoneme charts; what might be some insights or strategies you plan to implement to better support these students' language development and academic success?