- Southridge Junior High
- Teacher Resources for Teaching ELLs
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Go To Strategies
Breakdown of strategies to use or try in class by: Principle 1. Focus on Academic Language, Literacy,
and Vocabulary, Principle 2. Link Background Knowledge and Culture
to Learning, Principle 3. Increase Comprehensible Input
and Language Output, Principle 4. Promote Classroom Interaction, and Principle 5. Stimulate Higher Order Thinking
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Linguistically Responsive Teacher Education: Preparing Classroom Teachers to Teach English Language Learners
This article is only about 13 pages and gives educators insight on the research an theory behind teaching English Language Learners (ELLs) or Second Language Acquisition in general. This article can answer the questions you may have had about why your student can hold a conversation with you, but still struggles academically and does not have a learning disability.
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SIOP Examples
Here are some examples of SIOP lessons
K-12:
http://www.cal.org/siop/lesson-plans/
Junior High:
http://www.cal.org/create/resources/lesson-plans.html
Science:
Lab Safety Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEIXRLcC6RA
The Scientific Method:
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nAETHZTObk
Plan: http://mskaity.weebly.com/siop-lesson-plan.html
Scientific Theory vs Law:
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEIXRLcC6RA
Various Plans: https://missdoctorbailer.com
US History:
https://d3jc3ahdjad7x7.cloudfront.net/SIZiWfbzbC2p4u0o3a2N1Kzb48wHPGlZ2CqgLysTxDD2kFht.pdf
Math
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What a newcomer (novice speaker) can do by the end of the year.
This video shows an adult novice speaker at the same or even a higher level than could be expected of novice level newcomer students in an English Language Acquisition class with no prior exposure to English.
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Intermediate Speaker 1
Here is an example of an adult speaker at an intermediate level of English Language Acquisition. As you watch this speaker can carry on a conversation over highly rehearsed topics and can ask questions. This example is one in which the speaker has had a significant amount of exposure to the language in comprehensible input and may have studied English for up to two years with access to auditory learning. If the student has not had access to auditory learning they may have studied the language for a much greater amount of time to become this proficient in speaking English.
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Intermediate Speaker 2
This is an example of an adult speaker and as you watch notice that she is able to respond to highly rehearsed topics and she can frame her responses into a story or a chronological sequence of events. This example is one in which the speaker has had a significant amount of exposure to the language in comprehensible input and may have studied English for up to two years with access to auditory learning. If the student has not had access to auditory learning they may have studied the language for a much greater amount of time to become this proficient in speaking English.