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Beginning the School Year: For Teachers of MLs

7/24/2023

 
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Teachers of Multilingual Learners have unique roles, special jobs! They not the same as most of the other teachers in the building. Here are a few articles to help get the year started on the right foot. 

4 Things You Can Take OFF of Your List Before School Starts

3 Common 1st Day of School Mistakes 

Things To Do with MLs During the 1st WEEK of School

5 Ways to Start Off Your Class Period with MLs

July 01st, 2023

7/1/2023

 

The F-Word. Fidelity & Why it May Be a Fallacy for EL Instruction

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Buzzwords in education are like mosquitos. They are here for a while and during that time they become very annoying. Lately, many educators are hearing one certain F word frequently in regard to programs and curriculum. 

FIDELITY 

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The Intersection of UDL & Multilingual Learners

3/17/2023

 
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Multilingual learners (MLs) are amongst the fastest growing population in the United States. MLs come from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. The assets they bring to classrooms are sometimes underrecognized leaving these students struggling linguistically and academically. Many teachers of MLs want to provide instruction that meets their needs but find themselves not knowing how to help and feeling overwhelmed. 

This is where Universal Design for Learning (UDL) enters and has been known to support and benefit MLs. What is UDL?

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23 Things Educators Can Do to Support MLs

1/7/2023

 

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Last year this article was shared and greatly loved. This year, I'm adding to it to include one additional support.

Multilingual learners count on us to provide high-quality, comprehensible, and culturally responsive instruction in each lesson in every classroom.


Here are 23 practical and efficient ways (in no particular order) we can support multilingual learners as they climb to become our future global leaders.
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*The terms multilingual, emergent bilingual, and English learner are used interchangeably in this article and also include the acronyms MLs, EBs, and ELs.

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How to Lose a Reader (13 Ways)

5/21/2022

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  1. Don't give students time for free reading in class. 
  2. Assign all reading and offer students no choices in their reading selections. 
  3. Be sure to call on students one at a time to read aloud in front of their peers, for example, popcorn reading or round-robin reading.
  4.  Assign reading logs as homework and require students to fill them out regularly for a grade.
  5. Make reading worksheets a major practice of instruction and grading. 
  6. Only let students read books at their reading levels. 
  7. Discourage reading in languages other than English.
  8. Don't consider culturally inclusive book selections on your bookshelf and keep a blind eye to what students are reading. 
  9. Don’t let students abandon books even if they aren’t connecting with them. 
  10.  Avoid making space for students to talk or write about their reading.
  11. Don’t meet students where they are as readers. 
  12. Pull multilingual learners out of class during reading.
  13.  Don't model reading by reading aloud to students or sharing your passion for reading. 
This brief post lists 13 instructional practices that reduce the love and motivation for reading in students and then 13 ways to inspire and motivate them. ​
In contrast, here are 13 ways to help students find love, joy, and excitement in reading. 


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Don’t Let Monolingual Agendas Lead Multilingual Learners

5/10/2021

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Teaching multilingual children is a gift. It’s truly a joy. In my own classroom, I learned so much from my students, especially those that spoke more than one language. 

Over the years, one thing I learned from experience as well as through professional learning is that each student deserves to be seen and served individually. No one size fits all approach works. While differentiation may seem daunting, it’s actually not that scary. Dr. Stephen Fleenor describes differentiation as “not creating individualized lessons...it is creating environments in which students at all different levels, all different proficiencies...can each thrive and each grow one level up in that lesson”. Dr. Fleenor offers two wise suggestions for creating of environments that offer differentiation: 

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Sheltering Instruction in the Content Areas

6/16/2017

 
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These supporting documents have been in high demand and are in various blog posts on this blog. So I decided to put them all in one post for easy access. This is a one stop shop where you can find the supporting documents to shelter instruction in the content areas. Please feel free to share them with your teacher colleagues as they are meant to help all educators and students. These supports are not just for English Language Learners. ALL learners who need extra help will benefit! 
Social Studies
Math
Reading
Writing
supporting_english_language_learners_in_ss.pdf
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supporting_ells_in_math.pdf
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supporting_ells_in_writing_workshop.pdf
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ELL Friendly Anchor Charts

1/8/2017

 
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​Have you ever walked into a classroom and looked around in awe at the beautiful charts and posters? The beautifully decorated boarders and store bought matched sets? But when you ask the students about them, they don't have a clue what they are for or how to use them?

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