This is a tool that allows teachers to quickly make, customize, and print typical notes in English and/or Spanish that are sent home to parents or given to the students. This is done by using templates and allowing the teachers to customize some of the content, choose a color scheme and add a graphic.
This is a document will help with tips for classroom teachers who may be new to working with newcomers. There are 16 different recommendations for teachers and explanations of why each recommendation is important for language learners.
This is resource is to assist EL students with writing book reviews. There are provided paragraph frames and vocabulary banks to scaffold the writing process for students
These sentence starters, adapted from 7 Steps to a Language-Rich Interactive Classroom by John Seidlitz and Bill Perryman, are organized by the different levels of thinking you can use to scaffold writing for ELL students in your classroom.
Academic Vocab and HOT Questions
This power point presentation explains a number of vocabulary strategies you can use in the classroom.
These forms, adapted from the WIDA Can Do Descriptors, can be utilized to describe the linguistic capabilities of ELL students in all four language domains (reading, writing, listening, and speaking)