People at a beach

The Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) is a strategy to teach students sentence structure and content simultaneously.

Drawing of the earth rotating

Sketchnotes are notes that students create from a video, lecture, text, or lesson incorporating labeled, simple drawings.

a classroom of students sitting on the ground and looking up at someone off camera

In this blog post written for Colorín Colorado, Rhode Island administrator and WIDA trainer Julie Motta walks through a read-aloud activity for first grade and highlights how she engaged the students with the story, brought in content-area connections, and included informal assessment to check comprehension.

Boy writing at desk

This in-depth article from Dr. Ruslana Westerlund explains why writing is hard for students and walks educators through a teaching and learning cycle that can help students develop writing skills within disciplinary genres across content areas.

Water Cycle in English

An annotated diagram is a visual that includes labels for each part of an image, text, or diagram that students are using in content-area instruction.

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