One of the most effective strategies to teach social skills in elementary school is to create a common social language that becomes part of the classroom culture. (edutopia.org)
ELLs produce one - to two - word phrases and may repeat commonly used social language. (spellingcity.com)
Academic language requires that students move away from social language, with its more simplistic grammar and Anglo - Saxon vocabulary (body, chew, mellow), to sophisticated grammar with Greek and Latin words (aesthetics, ctenophora, heuristic). (edutopia.org)