This powerful and short video was created to support teacher training/pd related to comprehensible input and serving ELLs. Watch it and be inspired with simple shifts that will benefit all learners in your classroom.
The Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) created these cards, and they contain concrete and specific ideas and strategies for working with newcomers and EL/ML students. You'll want to print them and keep them nearby for easy reference.
Each tab within this link will lead you to more ideas that are helpful as you think about how to support and teach EL/ML students and families.
Concepts and Ways to Implement Them
Teachers College created this simple looking document that is full of easy to implement and important strategies. Despite its simple look, the strategies are highly effective and based on reliable research about language development.
This guide was developed for the Connecticut RESC Alliance in collaboration with Karin K. Hess. It consolidates numerous tools educators use to implement Webb’s Depth of Knowledge for curriculum and assessment: Hess’s Cognitive Rigor Matrices for ELA-Social Studies, Writing, and Math-Science; Norman Webb’s Alignment Tool from Wisconsin Center of Educational Research with Gary Cook’s Linguistic Difficulty Levels for ELLs; and Bonnie Campbell Hill’s Developmental Continuums (2001), Learning Progressions for English as an Additional Language, Christopher Gordon Publishers.