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How to Use Vocabulary Frames
This website describes both when and how to use vocabulary frames in instruction and provides a printable worksheet. Vocabulary frames provide additional support for students who are learning English by helping them to not only define a word but...
Vocabulary Frames
Framing words around their functions in a sentence to better support language acquisition along with content mastery
Setting up a Know-Wonder-Learn (KWL) Chart
This article from the The Teacher Toolkit describes a Know-Wonder-Learn (KWL) Chart and how this structure can be used to identify prior knowledge, build in opportunities for inquiry, and support student learning and comprehension.
Know-Wonder-Learn (KWL) Chart
Know-Wonder-Learn (KWL) Charts help educators identify prior student knowledge, build in opportunities for inquiry, and support student learning while measuring mastery and comprehension.
Scaffolded Summary
Crafting sentence and paragraph stems can support students who are learning English in summarizing content in a more scaffolded way.
Say Something Cards
Say Something cards provide students who are learning English with scaffolded sentence stems to help guide conversations.
Rules for “Say Something” Cards
This set of cards provides students with sentence stems to use during classroom conversations. Educators can print off this document to create tangible cards for students to reference. Some teachers laminate the deck and hang it from a hook in the...
What is Total Language Response?
This video explains what Total Language Response (TLR) is and how to use it to better support students who are learning English.
Total Language Response
How to use body language and non-verbal cues in addition to verbal directions to better support understanding for students who are learning English, as well as all students.
Quality-Plus Teaching Strategies: Non-Verbal Representation
This website describes specific “Quality-Plus Teaching Strategies,” such as non-verbal representation, as identified and developed by Gwinnett County Public Schools. These evidence-based pedagogical strategies are focused on specific classroom...
Non-Verbal Representation
How to use non-verbal support (e.g., visual and auditory input) to communicate concepts, meaning, and to build vocabulary and content knowledge.