Planning for Success for ELL Students

This article provides essential strategies for ELL’s in your classroom. First one needs to identify which of the five levels your student is at. Using the helpful charts provided in this ar... See More

This article provides essential strategies for ELL’s in your classroom. First one needs to identify which of the five levels your student is at. Using the helpful charts provided in this article you can plan for success with your students by planning input and output strategies, providing interactions, and using performance based assessments. This article is one of two designed to help you and your students be successful. This article focuses on planning.

Strategies to help teach ELLs

One of the most challenging demands that science educators can face is teaching content to students whose primary language is not English. Key planning and instruction strategies are outlin... See More

One of the most challenging demands that science educators can face is teaching content to students whose primary language is not English. Key planning and instruction strategies are outlined in this article. These strategies help science teachers and ESOL specialists to work together to enable student success in both content knowledge and English language mastery. Practical examples are given.