The Rural Mural Perspective on Helping ELLs Thrive  

• Learn about your ELL families

• Create a welcoming environment

• Provide an ENL parent school orientation for new families      (*Spanish version)

• Provide a beginning of school parent meeting

• Find ways to communicate through an interpreter and a communication service.

• Learn key words in the home language,

• Value the home language by integrating it into lessons and displays.

• Make personal connections.

• Integrate cultural traditions and guides into classes. 

• Provide training on ENL teaching strategies  ENL Toolkit

• Provide scaffolds and use other helpful tools

• New to Teaching ELLs? | Colorín Colorado (colorincolorado.org) 

• 50 Alternatives To Lecturing In The  ENL Classroom - Teaching (teachthought.com) 

• Nurturing  ELL Well-Being in Schools (ascd.org) 

• LinguisticDiversity - Serving Multilingual Learners of All Ages (valentinaesl.com) 

• Teach vocabulary with a picture dictionary

• Foster Language and Literacy Development for ELLs