Supporting MLs in Content Areas
Most Multilingual Learners (MLs) spend the majority of their day with a classroom teacher or in a content classroom. Often these teachers are not ELD specialists. Most of the strategies that support language learning for MLs will help all students improve their academic language and content knowledge. Visuals All learners will benefit from pictures, photographs, or other visual supports. Sometimes this means finding images before a lesson. Other times even a quick sketch is better than no visual support. For unit…