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A Deeper Look at an Innovative High School CCSS Lesson for ELLs
In my last post, I shared Colorin Colorado’s new multimedia project filmed with ELLs and ESL teachers in Poughkeepsie, NY. This week, I’d like to delve a little deeper into one of the high school...
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Socratic Circles and the Common Core: A Close Reading of the Text (Part II)
In Part I of our series on Socratic circles and English language learners (ELLs), we provided you with an explanation of what Socratic circles are, how they’re relevant in the Common Core, and some...
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Socratic Circles and the Common Core: Activity Ideas for ELLs (Part III)
Students at Colin L. Powell Elementary School, Centreville, VA. http://llclifford.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/powells-newest-philosophers/ In the first two posts in our series about using Socratic Circles...
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New! Stanford MOOC: Constructive Classroom Conversations
Stanford’s Understanding Language Initiative has recently launched a set of MOOCs (massive open online courses) on student-to-student academic discourse, aimed at helping teachers better understand and...
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New video series: Engaging ELLs in Academic Conversations
Sometimes the stars align and you find yourself in the middle of a conversation that lots of people are having at once! Following our recent series on using Socratic seminars with English language...
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Using Pair and Group Work to Develop ELLs’ Oral Language Skills
In our last post, we shared information about the new Teaching Channel ELL series based on Academic Conversations (2011) by Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford featuring related classroom videos developed...
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Creating Text Dependent Questions for ELLs: Examples for 6th-8th Grade
Last year, we wrote a two-part series on text dependent questions (TDQs) for ELLs, and it was one of our most popular blog posts. In the first blog post, we provided an overview of what TDQs are and...
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Seven Steps to Using Next Generation Science Standards with ELLs
Our guest blogger Emily Miller has received a lot of emails from teachers of English Language Learners (ELLs) in science classes asking for guidance on using the Next Generation Science Standards...
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My Collaborative Journey: An ESOL Teacher’s Perspective (Part 3)
This blog post is the third in a three-part series about the steps one elementary school with 60% ELLs took to increase collaboration between ESOL teachers and content teachers in order to better meet...
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Creating a Planning Process that Meets ELLs’ Needs: A Staff Development...
This blog post is the second in a three-part series about the steps one elementary school took to increase collaboration between ESOL teachers and content teachers in order to better meet the language...
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