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For many struggling ELLs, differentiation techniques helps teachers connect written and and oral forms of instruction during critical stages of English language learning.

Collaborative teaching between ESL and general education teachers helps supports struggling primary school ELLs.

Fluency is now recognized as an essential component to reading and understanding. What are experts saying about it?

Struggling ELLs need fluency building strategies in order to close the reading gap. Shorter texts with known vocabulary helps build up consolidated practice and exposure.

Writing a shared experience story gives ELL students an opportunity to feel successful when reading English.

Providing struggling English language learners with motivating texts not only enhances comprehension but reinforces vocabulary knowledge

Oral instruction helps teachers reinforce language skills for young ELLs that are in question in a general education or ESL group.

Giving English Language Learners the freedom to choose research topics helps access schema and brings cultural relevance to their learning.

Integrating Social Studies and Science into Language Arts instruction is a tool to improve content comprehension and language acquisition for English Language Learners.

This language intensive lesson plan will help English language learners practice speaking and listening skills using a community circle format.

Questions, conversation starters, and writing prompts that can be used for oral language exercises, journal writing, and other English as a second language lessons.

Working with English Language Learners requires teachers to consider cultural differences and to teach students to be tolerant of other's traditions, values, and tastes.

When English language learners struggle with the reading proficiency standard, teachers need to rethink how to adapt educational standards to feasible reading activities.

This article address how bilingualism in children who are learning English in the American school systems can be valued and promoted as a pathway to develop literacy.

This article shares one idea of how to use the Iditarod as a vehicle to practice inferring with English Language Learners.

English language learners can greatly benefit from a balanced reading approach that incorporates oral instruction and encourages oral responses to reinforce meaning.

Effective foreign or second language learning involves to a great extent learning new vocabulary words... and a lot of them. What is the trick?

By establishing consistent management routines in the primary classroom, the ease with which a new language learner can adjust to a new environment is improved.

Oral diagnostic assessment is an effective way for teachers to assess the reading abilities of their ELLs in addition to provide instructional support for struggling ELLs

The explicit practice of language structures is an important piece of acquiring a second language, but it doesn't have to be monotonous. Authentic literature helps!

Try these strategies to help elementary English language learners read and understand what is being asked in math word problems.

In order to cater to ELLs, teachers need to assess what they know and how to use this information to customize or plan instruction for them.

Bilingual children live in a world of compartmentalization. They speak one language at home, another at school, etc. How can teachers help them feel truly bilingual?

Tips and suggestions for helping English language learners succeed in regular education classrooms. How to help ELLs understand when teaching in the content areas.

By using language scaffolds, teachers provide more opportunities for ELLs to engage in vocabulary learning and comprehension of a new read-aloud.

NCLB requires that ELLs be provided accommodations when taking content assessments. Find out which accommodations are most responsive to and appropriate for ESL students.

More primary school teachers are using read-alouds to teach reading. Read-alouds also provide a springboard for oral instruction.

By using teaching strategies for differentiation, teachers are more likely to appeal to various levels of reading and learning styles with their English language learners

Use a nursery rhyme to teach Kindergarten phonics skills (phonemic awareness, word families) and basic skills (listening, following directions, numbers, colors, feelings)

Learn how to create and use anchor charts to help English language learners become better readers. Strategies help ESL students improve decoding and comprehension skills.

This "quick guide" book describes strategies for scaffolding and teaching English language learners in a kindergarten choice time workshop format.

Spanish and English share many cognates. Teachers who work as bilingual educators can use these cognates to help in a students' acquisition of both languages.

There are as many ELL programs as there are schools. Some use total immersion but other schools vary greatly in how they teach the language to foreign speaking students.

English language learners may need extra support to make content area texts comprehensible. Try these strategies to help ESL students as they read challenging material.

A social studies lesson plan for English language learners that integrates vocabulary development and the geography concepts of village, town, and city.

When teachers collaborate on assessment, they are more likely to target the areas of instruction that will most benefit their English language learners.

These books by teachers for teachers focus on creating classroom writing curriculums and writers workshop experiences that will help English language learners.

Move beyond guided reading groups to take the next step in best practices for teaching literacy in this how-to manual for daily reading assessment and instruction.

Anchor charts provide visuals for ESL students to track their learning and serve as reference tools. Use this teaching strategy to help scaffold ELL learning.

Modern architect, Antoni Gaudi's distinctive structure's can be seen in various places in Barcelona and his work has been influential in the city's architecture.

The second biggest city of Spain is one of the most attractive places on Earth. Great painters and architects were born here and you can see their work everywhere you go.

The following simple resource is valuable for teaching literacy, as an ESL lesson plan and even for basic primary lessons. Visual prompts aid vocabulary learning.

How to help English language learners develop math concepts while learning English.

Some guiding principles to help you plan early ESL early reading activities to young ESL preschool children including a few fun vocabulary activities.

Arne Duncan is promoting merit pay as an incentive for teachers to work harder and raise student scores. What are the numerous flaws in this theory?

It didn't take Golden Globes winner Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona to make the capital of Catalonia a top travel destination - 9 UNESCO World Heritage Sites already did that.

Poverty has a strong impact on homework. What do experts say?

The Nutrition Facts label on food products was mandated by the Food and Drug Administration to enable consumers to identify the various ingredients and additives in them.

Decoding instruction and activities need to involve decoding words in isolation and within a context.

Explore Bascom, North Carolina through the eyes of the Waverly sisters. They'll take you on a magical journey.