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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.
Grammar Walls
This website shares information around creating a “Grammar Wall” with children, along with ideas on how to make the activity colorful, age-appropriate, and content-focused.
Interactive Visual Vocabulary
Students build interactive walls that include grammar tenses, content-based vocabulary, etc., that visualize the meaning and can be used as a tangible support during instruction as well as an additional way to build understanding.
What is Modeling?
The teacher models a skill or strategy for students using a gradual release method that follows the pattern: “I do, we do, you do.” The teacher uses a variety of instructional methods while thinking aloud and explicitly modeling a skill or strategy...
Model, Model, Model
The teacher uses a variety of teaching styles during a “think aloud” to explicitly model for students what they will be doing during their independent practice. This modeling process eventually moves from the teacher modeling to the teacher modeling...
8 Tips for Creating Effective Word Walls
This article maps out ways to ensure word walls are engaging, interactive, student produced, and effective in supporting student learning through creative tips and ideas.
Reactions in a Zoom Meeting
This video from the Unversity of Queensland shows how instructors can use the reactions feature to engage students during a lesson.
Strategic Supports: How can general education teachers implement strategic supports for students who are learning English within their personalized classroom?
Are you looking for ways to better support your students who are learning English (EL) within your personalized classroom? If so, this guide will map out specific strategies that can engage your learners in new ways through nonverbal communication,...