Science for English Language Learners: K-12 Classroom Strategies

NSTA Press Book | December 2005

If you work with linguistically and culturally diverse students, you and your students will benefit from the foundation this book provides for teaching both science and language. Science for English Language Learners…

Essay: Programs for Teaching English Language Learners

Book Chapter | December 2007

Today's K-12 American classrooms are rich with students from families of diverse cultural, socioeconomic, and linguistic backgrounds. An increasingly important dimension of diversity in contemporary schools is language…

A Teacher's Perspective: Programs for Teaching English Language Learners

Book Chapter | December 2007

In their essay, “Programs for Teaching English Language Learners,” page 129, Fred Genesee and Donna Christian take an in-depth look at some of the most frequently used educational approaches for teaching students who…

English Language Learners and the Next Generation Science Standards

Book Chapter | February 2015

The science and engineering practices described in the NGSS are language intensive and present both language demands and language learning opportunities for English language learners. This vignette illustrates how very…

What Research Says About Science Assessment With English Language Learners

Book Chapter | March 2008

This chapter addresses what research says about science assessment with English Language Learners (ELL) students. Specifically, the authors draw from our ongoing research and development efforts to promote science and…

Oh Deer! Using Socioscientific Issues to Teach Inquiry-Based Lessons With English Language Learners

Journal Article | November 2022

NGSS for English Language Learners

Journal Article | December 2013

From theory to planning to practice

Assessment for English Learners

Journal Article | January 2022

Schoolyard Inquiry for English Language Learners

Journal Article | February 2007

This article presents outdoor inquiry activities to help English Language Learner (ELL) students learn life science concepts. Through inductive outings, nature journaling, and multicultural gardening, beginner and…

English Language Learners in the Science Classroom

Journal Article | August 2004

What can we as teachers do to help English Language Learners (ELLs) learn science when we do not speak their languages or know their cultures? Both pre- and in-service teachers have successfully used the following…

Making in the Middle: Using the maker movement to forge a middle-school collaboration to support English language learners

Journal Article | July 2019

Exploring maker spaces, engineering, and more