Set Goals To Support Students Developing Agency
April 6, 2020 11:08 am Leave your thoughtsWork with students to help them create their own goals to direct their learning in an authentic way. Example: Through... View Article
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(Series) Use Folklore to Discuss Language
February 9, 2020 10:35 am Leave your thoughtsStudents become anthropologists in order to explore folktales from their cultures with a focus on language. Example: In this study... View Article
Invite Students’ Oral Texts from Home
February 9, 2020 10:34 am Leave your thoughtsStudents can be invited to bring in oral stories, such as folktales, for literary or cultural analysis, expanding the range... View Article
Bridge Content With More Accessible Texts
February 9, 2020 10:32 am 1 CommentIn order to prepare students for more challenging and complex texts, more accessible texts can be used to develop skills... View Article
Support Students in Choosing Groups
February 9, 2020 10:31 am Leave your thoughtsStudents can be given the opportunity to choose their own partners for group work, especially based on shared home culture... View Article
Promote Understanding of Idioms
February 9, 2020 10:29 am 1 CommentStudents can be explicitly taught that language can be translated in multiple ways depending on the audience and the desired... View Article
Have Clear Roles for Group work
February 9, 2020 10:27 am Leave your thoughtsStudents can be assigned different roles to promote collaboration and offer multiple access points to learning. Example: Students were directed... View Article
Integrate ‘Writing for Visual Narrative’
September 13, 2019 2:49 pm Leave your thoughtsA method for introducing universal design to students as they tackle any story-based writing assignment with the goal of including... View Article
Use Stories or Puppets in Social Problem Solving
May 21, 2019 10:13 am Leave your thoughtsUse stories or puppets to model and role-play children’s challenging social situations in order to look for possible solutions. Example:... View Article
Prime Students for Discussion with Free-Writing
May 21, 2019 9:49 am Leave your thoughtsHave students write low-stakes responses to a brief prompt to help get them ready for discussion. Example: At the start... View Article
Make Prompts Clear and Specific
May 21, 2019 9:45 am Leave your thoughtsWhen asking students to do a written task, make sure you are clear about the role, audience, format, and topic... View Article
Give Actionable Feedback on Students’ Written Work
May 21, 2019 9:39 am Leave your thoughtsStudents need feedback on their work that allows them to make successful revisions. This includes showing your understanding of their... View Article
Invite Students to Develop Assessment Criteria
May 21, 2019 9:33 am Leave your thoughtsStudents feel more engaged when they have the chance to determine criteria for how their writing will be assessed. Example:... View Article
Use Text-to-Speech for Math Word Problems
May 3, 2019 10:38 am Leave your thoughtsText-to-Speech can support student decoding of symbols and understanding when doing word problems. Example: Use google docs or other text-to-speech... View Article
Use Multilingual and Visual Guides for Vocabulary
April 18, 2019 2:11 pm Leave your thoughtsBy using vocabulary frames like the Frayer model, emerging bilingual students are given the opportunity to learn new vocabulary in... View Article
Invite Writing Across Languages
April 18, 2019 2:08 pm Leave your thoughtsBy giving students the opportunity to write in their home language, they are are invited to explore their literary abilities... View Article
Group Multilingual Learners Together
April 18, 2019 1:55 pm Leave your thoughtsPlacing students in multilingual groupings will give them an opportunity to express themselves in the target language while allowing for... View Article
Provide Multilingual Writing Scaffolds
April 18, 2019 1:47 pm Leave your thoughtsOffering students multilingual writing scaffolds grants them linguistic access to a task as well as the linguistic supports necessary to... View Article
Preview Texts in Students’ Home Languages
April 18, 2019 10:16 am Leave your thoughtsThrough the use of multilingual texts, emergent bilingual students are given the opportunity to access the content in their home... View Article
Use Stories to Explore Number Patterns
March 26, 2019 9:11 am Leave your thoughtsUse a sequencing story or song to explore how growing patterns work. Example: After sharing a story or song such... View Article
Create Nonverbal Classroom Conversations
March 20, 2019 4:25 pm Leave your thoughtsStimulate thought and conversation between students who struggle to express themselves verbally. Example: Contrary to dominant pedagogical practices, many students... View Article
Offer Talking Point Cards to Support Discussions
March 8, 2019 1:03 pm Leave your thoughtsMultilingual sentence starter cards can support students with disabilities and emerging bilinguals with content area discussions. Example: Participating in discussions... View Article
Graph Coordinates on the Floor
March 8, 2019 12:52 pm Leave your thoughtsCreate a cartesian plane on the floor for students to practice their graphing skills. Example: Create cartesian plane on the... View Article
Use Google Classroom to Manage Materials
March 8, 2019 12:50 pm Leave your thoughtsGoogle classroom can be used to share daily materials, math tools, and additional resources to students. Example: Organize topics by... View Article
Support Vocabulary With Online Tools
January 17, 2019 1:06 pm Leave your thoughtsStudent vocabulary development can be supported with the use of online tools that review and reteach. Example: To meet the... View Article