EPS Sheltered Instruction

04/17/2024

Shared by a school that is working on anchor charts in math-what key content AND language can be held on a chart to support learning across the unit? Building it slowly over time WITH students and continually referencing it and pointing students towards it as a resource increases student use of the chart for meaning making and output.

03/15/2024

I love the K-8 version of this book. Excited to see a secondary version!

Join me for this event: Teaching Secondary Multilingual Learners: Growing Language and Literacy 6-12 Book Launch with . Take a look!

02/13/2024

Expressing vs Co-constructing ideas

Interactive learning is key to multilingual learners’ academic success, language development, and sense of belonging in the classroom community. Read our Focus Bulletin from 2021 on Interactive Learning with Multilingual Learners in Content-Area Classrooms for a discussion of two aspects of interactive learning, expressing and co-constructing ideas: https://wida.wisc.edu/resources/interactive-learning-multilingual-learners-content-area-classrooms

This resource also includes sample interactive learning activities and questions to help educators reflect on the role of interactive learning in their classroom.

01/10/2024

Connecting language practice with shared reading in kinder. Students each had a picture and used the routine, “Lines of Communication,” to practice sentences structured like the text to describe the picture to a partner.

01/04/2024

Official page for Carol Salva's blog & podcast. The website holds information about classroom projec

10/16/2023

Found in 3rd grade at Sunset. Visual sorting to understand science concepts/vocabulary along students using writing to interact with whole class charts.

10/01/2023

September’s Featured Educator is Michelle Skinner! Michelle is in her first year at a school with a large population of newcomers in South Carolina, but this isn’t her first year teaching. She has more than 20 years of experience!

Read this edition to learn more about her approach to the new school year and her wisdom from the last 20: https://wida.wisc.edu/news/featured-educator-michelle-skinner

06/15/2023

https://www.colorincolorado.org/sentence-frames

Related Video: Using Sentence Frames with ELLsESOL specialist Sheila Madji explains what a sentence frame is and how she might use this strategy with ELLs.[VIDEO::https://youtu.be/f3rXwstobh8]How to Use This StrategyBefore presenting a sentence frame to students: Explain what the sentence frame is a...

06/05/2023

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04/18/2023

Found at Crestline. Partnering expectations communicated visually along with language for partner communication.

03/29/2023

Many of our newcomers have been more successful with explicit instruction about how certain tools and visual representations work because they are different than their previous schooling experiences.

03/21/2023

3rd graders loved looking at a picture from a favorite book and brainstorming language to create sentences.