• Begin Now - Set up a strong ELD routine in your in-person classroom NOW

• Incorporate Digital Tools Now - Look for ways to use the digital tools outlined on this page to increase classroom engagement, build lessons, and create student routines. Investing the time now will result in less stressful and time consuming adjustments, if a transition is needed later.

• Consistency is Important - When students have had the opportunity to dive deep into the possibilities of what they know is expected and what they are capable of, it will be easier to engage them in meaningful ways, if remote learning is needed.

The following suggestions apply to K-6 grade,. Additional, specific ideas for unique schools and programs that are not standard across the district are listed in additional sections below (e.g. Piloted Curriculums, and newcomers).

• Scenario 1: Your class is meeting at the school building but you have a student or students engaging in At-Home Learning.

Option 1: Select a pre-made, self-paced Nearpod EL lesson to send to students to complete asynchronously.

Option 2: Use Nearpod to create your presentation for the whole class. Send the self-paced student version to the student to do asynchronously.

Option 3 (used in conjunction with Options 1 or 2): Create or use a premade Flipgrid activity for the student at home to engage in academic conversations with students still in the building.

• Scenario 2: Your whole class is in At-Home Learning and you're unable to teach.

Option 1: Provide your students with pre-made, self-paced Nearpod EL lessons.

Option 2: Use a premade Flipgrid activity for the students to engage in academic conversations with each other.

• Scenario 3: Your whole class is in At-Home Learning and You're Able to Teach.

  1. Use a combination of synchronous and asynchronous instruction. Each day, meet synchronously to start the lessons. The entire lesson can be synchronous with your whole group the entire time or you can begin with a mini-lesson or discussion warm up, followed by assigning some students to remain with you for small group ELD work and other students can be given an asynchronous ELD assignment for that day's lesson. Every student should participate in synchronous learning for the entire duration of ELD at least 3 times a week and only have asynchronous activities 2 times a week.

Synchronous Instruction:

Option 1: Use digital presentation tools to teach material from your curriculum (Wonders EL, Inside, Language & Literacy or Imagine Reading) as a whole or small group.

Option 2: Teach students how to open a second tab and toggle between the meet and Nearpod. Use a premade Nearpod EL lesson or make your own.

Asynchronous:

Option 1: Make or select a pre-made, self-paced Nearpod EL lesson

Option 2: Create or use premade Flipgrid activities to engage students in academic speaking opportunities

This link will take you to instruction on how to use Nearpod. In addition to the regular content, you will have access to pre-made, specific EL content on the following topics:

Tutorial Video on How to Set Up Flipgrid

Additional resources to get started with Flipgrid

This link will take you to a 1 min video on how to access a short tutorial on how to digitally present Wonders EL materials during synchronous lessons.

This link will take you to a folder of resources that can be used for remote learning. Sixth grade also has Nearpod EL and Flipgrid available as resources (see above suggestions).

Participating schools in the pilot program must continue to use Imagine Reading as your primary curriculum but may want to consider how Nearpod, Flipgrid, and other digital tools could be integrated to better facilitate instruction. For ideas, concerns or questions, please contact Thäis Rodriguez.

• Scenario 1: Your class is meeting at the school building but you have a student or students engaging in At-Home Learning.

Essential Question & Passage Discussion Questions: Use Google Meet to record the Essential Question Video for students to watch. Post the essential question on Flipgrid and have all students, regardless of location, engage in the conversation.

Power Sentence Lesson: Place scrambled sentence chunks into different text boxes in Google Draw or Padlet. Ask the student to color code the clue words that helped them decide the order of the sentence. They could also use Flipgrid to explain their sentence order to you.

Student Passages: The passages and accompanying video, questions, and writing prompts should be easy for students to do asynchronously. However, you might need to record yourself pointing out which passage is assigned or create a visual set of instructions using a screen capture tool.

Synthesis Project: Ask students to create an independent project and/or interview their family about the essential question (even if they do it in another language).

• Scenario 2: Your whole class is in At-Home Learning and you're unable to teach.

Priority 1: Assign students to independently work on passages.

Supplement 1 (if needed): Provide your students with pre-made, self-paced Nearpod EL lessons

Supplement 2 (if needed): Use a premade Flipgrid activity for the students to engage in academic conversations with each other.

• Scenario 3: Your whole class is in At-Home Learning and you're able to teach.

Each day, meet synchronously to start the lessons. A minimum of 70% of your meeting days should be full synchronous instruction that may include lessons for essential questions, power sentences, discussing passages and reviewing questions, or planning and working on synthesis projects. The other 30% of the time, you should begin synchronously with a short mini-lesson and then keep some students to read with you and you may dismiss other students to read asynchronously or work on their projects independently with a set expectation for what they should accomplish on their own. Remember students can not meet to work on their projects without a teacher ‘present.’

See scenario 1 for specific content ideas.

For questions about using Rosetta Stone with a newcomer student, please contact Thäis Rodriguez.