ELD Office Hours are facilitated by the Services for English Learners instructional team to provide guidance for teachers and EL instructional staff in designing tasks and identifying strategies that support ELs in distance learning.
May 14, 2020
Tasks to support ELs' oral language development are just as important in distance learning. This session provided an overview of Seesaw, Flipgrid, and Padlet as tools to support students' speaking skills. Examples are provided by SVUSD teachers. Click here for complete slide deck with links to tutorials to each app.
May 28, 2020
Activating prior knowledge, purposeful use of comprehension questions, and student lexile levels are just few of the things to keep in mind in order for ELs to access content within a reading task. This session provided tools as well as instructional strategies to support ELs as they simultaneously develop language and content knowledge.