ELL Across the Curriculum - DT

How can you create a welcoming classroom that engages English Language Learners?

• Recognize their strengths

• Demonstrating respect and empathy

• Teach language and content simultaneously

• Challenging and supporting your students

• All of the above

When scaffolding instruction for ELs, you should consider

• Materials/Resources and Instruction

• Materials/Resources, Instruction and Grouping

• Materials/Resources and Grouping

• Modified materials as academic work is challenging for ELs

Indicate 1 activity that provides ELs with opportunities to develop their Oral Language skills and engage with academic content.

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ELs need scaffolds at the word, sentence and discourse level of academic language. Which of the following show a scaffold at the sentence level?

• home language and a dictionary

• word map

• unpack dense sentences and summarize each chunk

• visuals and home language

When teaching essential vocabulary, ELs benefit from working with a brief informational text connected to the topic studied and practice _______ in multiple contexts.

• 3 words

• 20 words

• as many topic related words as possible

• 5 - 10 words

Which of the following strategies can help you teach background knowledge?

• short texts with supplementary questions

• home language support

• visuals, web links and sentence starters

• all of the above

ELLs need explicit instruction and opportunities to engage in close reading of texts across content areas. You should engage your learners in ______ close read/reads of a text.

• one

• two

• three

• four

Identify one reading scaffold you can use to support your ELLs.

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ELLs benefit from free writing activities.

• True

• False

Knowing the stages of second-language acquisition ensures we teach lessons that complement these stages. For a learner in the developing stage, we can use graphic organizers, break the text into smaller chunks and reduce the linguistic load.

• True

• False