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Writing
Writing
Sentence Construction
This slideshow and accompanying worksheets scaffold your ML students to construct sentences with details about characters, actions, and events.
Complex Sentences AAAWWUBBIS
Guide your ML students to make ordinary sentences extraordinary! This slideshow and accompanying anchor chart and worksheet use a mnemonic device that creates complex sentences by joining a dependent clause with an independent clause.
Descriptive Writing Frames
Sentence frames are a great resource to support ML students in adding description to their writing. These worksheets offer scaffolding for beginner, intermediate, advanced, and high advanced students. They can be a great supplement to a reading activity as they can accompany photos and illustrations included in the text.
Descriptive Writing Frames Worksheets
Diamante Poem
A diamante poem is a seven-line poem that takes on a diamond shape, typically contrasting two opposing subjects or ideas. Supporting ML students in creative writing, it offers practice in grammatical structures, as well. It can also be utilized as a creative, descriptive strategy for people or characters. ML students can use this online tool to scaffold their writing and artistically publish their work.
Compare & Contrast Map
This interactive graphic organizer helps ML students develop an outline for one of 3 types of comparison essays: whole-to-whole, similarities-to-differences, or point-to-point. Also included is an interactive Venn Diagram to help students organize their thoughts as they plan their writing. As our ML Newcomers may require additional support, pdf versions of a Venn Diagram and framed paragraph are also available in the links below.
Reading
Reading
Reading Comprehension Template
This strategy is designed to encourage student interaction and boost engagement throughout the reading process, it is particularly important for SLIFE and other multilingual learners who may be struggling. The template is structured to foster academic conversations around the text, using a Student A–Student B format. In this setup, students work in pairs, alternating roles as “Student A” and “Student B.” The guided questions and sentence stems help multilingual learners of all proficiency levels participate meaningfully in text-based discussions.
Reading Comprehension Template
True / False Evidence Statement
Unlike traditional true/false exercises, this template encourages ML students to justify their responses with textual evidence. Teachers pre-select text-based statements. Students analyze the statement, decide if it is true or false, and justify their responses with evidence from the text.
Turn and Talk Template
Encourage your ML students to be actively engaged in literary discussions. The Turn & Talk Template encourages participation and promotes collaborative learning!
Gallery Walk
A gallery walk is a kinesthetic, learning activity where students move around a classroom or designated space, engaging with various stations or materials (artwork, text, or questions) to learn and share ideas. This strategy is a great opportunity for ML students to learn and collaborate with their peers!
I Have... Who Has
This interactive game is a fun way for ML students to practice skills and consolidate knowledge. Each game contains a set of cards with an answer and a question. The game starts with one player reading their "who has" question. The player who has the answer on their card responds with, "I have" followed by their own "who" has question. This strategy can be used for an array of skills including literary elements, grammar exercises, and figurative language. Video instructions are linked below, along with an editable template, and a game cards to practice idioms.
Social Studies
Social Studies
KWL Chart
A KWL chart is a simple, yet powerful organizational tool used in education to guide learning. It's a three-column chart where students record what they Know, what they Want to know, and what they have Learned about a topic. It is a useful organizational tool for ML students to organize their research. The following template can be used online or printed for students.
Timeline
A timeline is a visual display of a list of events in chronological order. A great tool for ML students to use simplified language and images to grasp historical events and concepts. See the YouTube video for a more detailed description. The linked templates offer a selection of formats to suit the needs of your ML students.
Social Studies Sentence Stems
Scaffold academic language in social studies by providing your ML students with sentence frames. The anchor chart is a great tool for structured conversation practice in social studies. The template provides support in writing. Both tools simplify language into meaningful chunks to aid in understanding of major events and people in history.
5 W's to Summarize
This graphic organizer is a simple and effective method of summarizing key people and events in history. Offering support and scaffolding, this strategy helps ML students organize their thought to produce a detailed, concise sentence.
Claim-Reason-Evidence
A structured graphic organizer that helps your ML student produce detailed, clear, logical responses to historical questions. Teachers can generate questions according to the English proficiency levels of their ML students.
Science
Science
Definition Web
A definition web graphic organizer is a visual tool that structures information to highlight the relationships among different concepts. This strategy is a useful method in developing academic vocabulary and conceptualization in science.
Definition Web Graphic Organizer
3-2-1 Exit Ticket
3-2-1 Exit ticket is a formative assessment strategy that teachers at the end of a lesson to check for understanding. This strategy is an ideal method to check for understanding with our ML students who may have been apprehensive about speaking. Students are asked to write 3 things they have learned, 2 things they found interesting, and 1 question they have. It is a great way to gather feedback in order to plan for future lessons.
Find the Fib
In this activity, students read 3 statements authored by the teacher or a peer. Students discuss the 3 statements with a peer, identifying which statement is false. ML student use the workheet as a prompt to share their reasoning with their peers.
Find the Fib Graphic Organizer
Science Sentence Frames
ML students require additional support, especially when it comes to academic language. Please utilize the sentence frames below, to provide your students with scaffolding in their conversations and writing in science!
Same Scene Twice
In this strategy, ML students discuss the content prompt with a peer and record their notes in the Casual Conversation column. After that, students research the prompt and prepare notes with more specific, academic language (see Science Sentence Frames). Finally, students discuss the topic again, using the academic language prompts they recorded on their graphic organizer.
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