Can/Have/Are charts are a simple way for students to organize information about a particular topic. These charts are helpful for MLs (Multilingual Learners), but all students benefit from using them. Anchor Charts Use can/have/are charts as an anchor chart for a unit. Put up the blank charts and work with students to add in words and phrases for each category. Use the premade chart as a reference for yourself to give students ideas, and after the anchor chart is finished,…

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Grammar is a set of rules that helps organize words into sentences so they make sense. It explains how words work together to form a clear meaning. Teaching grammar is a concept that is easy to skip over when there is a limited amount of time in your schedule. Many native English speakers develop grammar skills naturally over time and can often tell if a sentence “sounds right.” However, this is not always the case for multilingual learners (MLs). The…

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Learning to read is a complex process. Students need to learn how to decode words while also understanding what those words mean. The science of reading gives valuable research about how children learn to read. Many effective teaching strategies come from this work. When you are working with multilingual beginning readers, it’s important to remember that much of this research was done with monolingual students. For multilingual learners (MLs), it is important to think carefully about how to apply these…

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Do your ELD (English Language Development) students need support with writing? Do you work with ELLs with multiple language levels at the same time? Or do you go into a classroom during writing and not always know how to support students during their writing time? Today, I am going to show you a set of  ELD writing lessons. Short Lessons These lessons take around 30 minutes each. You can extend them to about 45 minutes or shorten them to a…

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