ELLs use more complex language in oral and written form.
It is important to carefully observe how individual
ELLs use both receptive and expressive language.
What types of vocabulary words does
the ELL use?
Does
the ELL use academic vocabulary appropriately?
Not exact matches
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Some of the linguistic features that can pose a problem for
ELL students include long phrases within sentences, and less commonly -
used verb tenses.
In a 7 - year study at a Boston elementary school where half the students are English Language Learners (
ELL), setting a school - wide goal of improved writing skills and
using a genres - based instructional method improved the performance of
ELL students on state and internal assessments, according to Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.
Whether they correspond to the vocabulary in a social studies unit or simply help students learn new words, you can
use this app to support a variety of
ELL students.
Teachers of English - Language Learners (
ELLs) can
use technology to promote growth in their students.
The cards marked with a star are less wordy and better to
use with struggling readers or
ELL kids.
Our students» limited English - language skills could easily be
used as an excuse for low performance or a need for unlimited resources, but we see it as a necessity for teachers to differentiate their instruction to reach all learners, including
ELL students.
In the NAEP analysis, the authors estimate student poverty with data from the federal lunch program and estimate additional student characteristics
using data on possession of an Individualized Education Program (IEP) and English Language Learner (
ELL) status, admittedly a common practice when analyzing education data.
Fay / Whaley: Because it takes
ELLs five to seven years, and some research suggests even longer, to successfully
use and process academic language, it is paramount that
ELLs have many opportunities to
use the language they are learning.
At San Francisco International High School, all students are non-native English speakers and take regular high school classes that
use teaching techniques specifically geared toward
ELLs.
Use these sentences with ESL,
ELL, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Special Education, or ANY language, Picture «Reading» Sentences — These sentences can be
used as oral assessments both before and after the vocabulary has been taught.
It is great for those students who may be
ELL,
using non-verbal communication is great for everyone!
Though the origin of this popular adage is unclear, one thing is clear:
using photos with English - Language Learners (
ELLs) can be enormously effective in helping them learn far more than a thousand words — and how to
use them.
We also
use our extra academic hours to provide targeted one - on - one and small group intervention for our students with special needs who are significantly behind grade levels in reading, and we offer additional hours of ESL instruction to our beginning
ELL students.
Portions of this column are excerpts from their new book, The ESL /
ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready - to -
Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English - Language Learners of All Levels.
Despite moves to ease limits on bilingual education in California and Massachusetts, more
ELLs are now learning in English, taught by teachers who
use an array of strategies to reach nonfluent students.
So how do you build a really attractive, flexible curriculum that has modules that could be
used, not only for students who are on grade level, but for those who may be a year behind, for the
ELL students, for special needs students?
WIDA (World - class Instructional Design and Assessment), an organization that promotes academic language objectives for the benefit of both educators and
ELL students, classified academic language along four lines, called Key
Uses, that are based upon the purpose of the communication:
«I really believe that to be innovative in the
ELL space, designing around the needs of the teacher is key and should be part of any comprehensive approach to
using technology.»
Online resources have become inexpensive and easier to
use, and they apply to a wide range of curricula
used by
ELLs.
Provide
ELLs with quality instructional practices and resources, including fair assessments, free
use of dictionaries and thesauruses, extra time, and the option of multiple media.
A proposed «interpretation» of the No Child Left Behind Act's Title III — the conduit for most federal funding for
ELL programs — says that states must further standardize the criteria they
use to report how well such students are learning...
The report, last in a three - part series about states» testing policies for
ells, urges states to provide comprehensive guidelines for school districts on how to use accommodations with E
ells, urges states to provide comprehensive guidelines for school districts on how to
use accommodations with
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This post is excerpted from their new book, The ESL /
ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready - to -
Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels.
ELLs can
use these techniques, too.
Here are some strategies for
using video with
ELLs that reflect those words and avoid the danger of just sitting back and watching the screen.
Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski explain how English - language learners must develop academic language proficiency as well as communicative competence, and provide a lesson plan they have
used successfully with their
ELL students.
Part 1 of this series describes the Common Core Writing Standards and shares general strategies that
ELL teachers can
use to meet them.
My shop has a variety of resources - presentations, writing prompts, worksheets, activity cards, posters for
use in the English /
ELL / ESL or mainstream class.
This brief provides a framework for
using Response to Intervention (RTI) with students who are English Language Learners (
ELLs) from Hispanic backgrounds.
Research shows that
using poetry to show the different meaning of words is an effective instructional strategy to
use in EFL / ESL and
ELL classrooms.
The Pathway Project trains teachers to
use a pretest on - demand writing assessment to improve text - based analytical writing instruction for mainstreamed Latino
ELLs who are able to participate in regular English classes.
Learn more about
using the home language to support
ELLs» reading instruction in our Teaching
ELLs to Read webcast featuring Dr. Genesee!
The ESL /
ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready - to -
Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels
Each voucher student who «persisted» in the private school to graduation was matched by «grade, neighborhood, race, gender, English Language Learner (
ELL) status and math and reading test scores» to a student who did not
use a voucher.
Connected Educator John Spencer shows
ELL educators how to combine technology with teaching in this easy - to -
use guide to blended learning.
In the days when the term was first
used in connection with
ELLs, students were considered «sheltered» because they studied in classes separate from «the mainstream» and did not compete academically with native English speaking students (Freeman & Freeman, 1988).
The term English language learner (
ELL), as
used here, indicates a person who is in the process of acquiring English and has a first language other than English.
Q: Can an
ELL teacher
use an assessment that is already developed by an educational publisher (aligned with WIDA Standards) for SGOs?
Learn about the unique relationship and program between Bullis Charter School and the Family Engagement Institute from Foothill College and how they are
using patterns of innovation strategies to «stretch» low - income,
ELLs to ensure a more successful transition into their first school year.
Data
Use Improves
ELL Achievement: • «Similar English Learner Students, Different Results: Why Do Some Schools Do Better?»
The result is that
ELL teachers were given well - researched, readily available resources to
use to better reach students, Larson says.
There are, for example, no statistics on the percentage of
ELL students in the schools, no numbers on the privately raised funds the schools put to
use, and only cursory gestures, in Kenny's book, to the controversy over students counseled out of or removed from these charter - school classrooms and to their teacher turnover rate.
An independent study conducted by McREL International shows how well these features and methods work:
ELL students
using VocabularySpellingCity in class had a 46.5 % increase in reading comprehension compared to peers not
using the program.
Next,
ELL students should learn to identify various types of context clues and how to
use them effectively.
We are very aware of the need for more resources in Spanish for
use in ESL /
ELL / Bilingual classrooms.