Click on the drop down menu of "Effective Strategies" to see how teachers across the district are supporting ELLs in their content acquisition and language development at all different levels and in every content area. Strategies are loosely broken down into the following categories:
These categories certainly overlap, though, as strategies that are effective for writing (such as sentence frames and paragraph frames) can also be very useful in promoting the use of academic vocabulary in classroom discussion or in helping students structure and organize their notes. Similarly, the strategies and techniques teachers are using to teach students new vocabulary and have them regularly apply it in original contexts, will support their reading of grade-level texts and increase their writing and speaking fluency.
- Writing and Discussion
- Reading Comprehension & Note-Taking
- Vocabulary
- Other Strategies
These categories certainly overlap, though, as strategies that are effective for writing (such as sentence frames and paragraph frames) can also be very useful in promoting the use of academic vocabulary in classroom discussion or in helping students structure and organize their notes. Similarly, the strategies and techniques teachers are using to teach students new vocabulary and have them regularly apply it in original contexts, will support their reading of grade-level texts and increase their writing and speaking fluency.