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Julie Motta is the Assistant Superintendent of the East Providence School District in Rhode Island and formerly the ESL Director of Pawtucket Schools. In this blog post written for Colorín Colorado, Julie walks through a template that she has been using with her ESL teachers to make curriculum units aligned to the Common Core State Standards more accessible to ELs and highlights the many strengths and areas of expertise her teachers bring to the process.
In this collaborative strategy, students listen to a short text about their current unit of study several times and reconstruct the text together.
Amanda Reynolds is a fourth-grade teacher at Claremont Dual-Immersion Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia. In this interview, she explains how collaboration works in her school's dual-immersion model and the kinds of supports she gives ELLs in th
Here are some tips for talking about tough topics when they come up in the classroom.
Moving beyond the writing process, this useful resource is filled with activities and graphic organizers to help students understand and then produce various types of writing: narrative, expository, persuasive and poetic.
This week we'd like to take a break from text-dependent questions to share some resources with you on implementing the Common Core with ELLs that have become available recently.
In this book, Joanne Yatvin offers a variety of techniques for teaching writing that will motivate all students, while also providing ELLs with the supports they need.
This article reviews research concerning literacy engagement and motivation of adolescent ELL students as well as native speakers in content-area classrooms.