3. GLAD
Amazing teaching strategies for teaching ELL
students!
Personal favorites: Inquiry Charts, Big Books, Chants,
Scientist Awards, Compare and Contrast, Response
Journals, Found poetry, and Sentence Pattern.
There is a plethora of resources and opportunities
for application
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4. Sentence Pattern
One of the strategies
used for GLAD
Teaches All parts of
speech to a tune
When applied the
learning is immediate- it
will stick in your
students minds
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5. Sentence Frames
Many, many options...
One of my favorite frames
includes this form for a
summary sentence:
Someone/wanted/but/so
Example: The big bad wolf
wanted to eat one of the
three little pigs, but he
was unsuccessful in his
attempts to blow down a
house so he climbed down a
chimney.
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6. Expert Teachers
Students set personal goals- they decide to become
experts at an aspect of a lesson (i.e. strong ending,
internal commas, hooks, paragraphs, activity
directions...
Whenever a student is absent or confused ask for an
expert teacher. Students love to help their peers and
will be attentive to teacher directions, so that they may
get the chance to be the Expert.
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7. - Teach one vocabulary word daily
- Create a hand action to match and use it as a transition cue
- Encourage multi-lingual students to teach the word in their first
language and teach the class
- Post the words around the room and refer to often (Build a part of
speech word wall
Word of the Day
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8. Mimic Writing
Students read multiple picture books
Notice author craft
Students choose a book or author to mimic
Students write their own story version
Celebrate the accomplishment
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9. CHOICE PROMPTS/
WRITING DERBY
Allow students to choose between prompts for quick writes
Students generate writing for 5 minutes, then count words, and
graph their progress (fast visual for student and teacher)
This can be extended later to any focus in writing (i.e. have
students count mind-movie sentences or vivid verbs or helping
verbs)
It is simple; students with a reluctance for writing will gladly play
this basic “game.”
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10. Sensory Field
Trip
When teaching the five senses, first provide
understanding with visual cueing cards and
real world examples- fresh oranges, bird
calls, a fan...
Once students have a grasp, take them on a
field trip of the school- the corridors, the
outside field, a different classroom- and have
them classify the different senses. Allow
students only a few minutes in each location.
They will be focused and intent on
identifying as many different senses as they
can.
This can then be expanded on with a poetry
lesson.
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11. Sites to look into...
• Bilingual Site of books and authors: http://
www.colorincolorado.org/read
• Scholastic- so many strands!
• Google ESOL teaching strategies
• Mrs. P (online oral story telling)
• Enchanted Learning
• Spelling City
• A to Z
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