ESOL STRATEGIES FOR BASIC CLASSROOMSThis is a “live e-version” of the ESOL Strategies page that your ELL Contact should provide for you. Each link is tied directly to the strategy and gives you a video to view or document to read that deals directly with that strategy. (Press CTRL+mouse click to follow link)

☐ Making use of contextual clues-gestures, expression, body language.Body Language: Engage & Motivate.Manners and Body Language

☐ Individualized assistance and instruction.Rick’s Reading Workshop: One on One/Differentiation.More assistance and instruction.

☐ Adjusting or shortening assignments.Go With The Flow: Plan and Adjust/Planning.Adjusting Lessons.*Scaffolding and Differentiating Instruction in Mixed Ability ESL Classes Using a Round Robin Activity.Adapting-a-Strategy: Adjusting Lessons for ESL/ELL Students.

☐ Defining content area language or terms for students.Student Profile: Learning English Through Content/ELLGrounding Content.Supply and Demand Made Relevant.Using a Warm-Up to Review Content.Classroom Design: “The Critter Keeper.”*Library of Congress: Lesson, Units, and Projects for Secondary Level English Language Learners. Click: Especially for you…Teachers.

☐ Adapting written text and materials to facilitate comprehension. Analyzing Texts: Putting Thoughts On PaperAnalyzing Texts: Brainstorms Before Writing.Analyzing Texts: “Text, Talk, Time.”Academic Choice: Comprehending and Retelling a Story.Using Text Features to Gather Evidence about Soil.Interacting with Complex Texts: Scaffolding Reading. How do you describe poetry’s value in the classroom?

☐ Seat the student close to the front of the room/Classroom ManagementGuided Reading Organization. Classroom Design: “The Traffic Cop.”Classroom Design: “Super Organizer.”Morning Arrival Routines in the Classroom.Taking Attendance & Displaying Schedules.

*“Provide Various Opportunities for Talking and Consider Seat Placement: It is very important to consider seat placement in the classroom for the ESL student. All too often, ESL students are seated in the back of the classroom, which leads to a great lack of contribution, listening, and participation. Try and seat the ESL student

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close to the front, especially with other students who are inviting and enjoy conversation. Provide the most opportunities as possible for talking and listening to others in the class via group work. You will be surprised how much shorter the silent period will end. ”

☐ Provide alternative instruction whenever the class lessons are extremely difficult.Visual Tools for Differentiating Reading by Roger Essley 1-4.ESL Classroom Games.

☐ Allow ample time to complete assignments.☐ Speak clearly, and simplify the vocabulary (it is not necessary to speak louder.

Extending Understanding: Vocabulary Development.Building Vocabulary with Fruit HaikuVocabulary Paint ChipsKick Me: Making Vocabulary Interactive.College Talk: Improving Student’s Vocabulary.Using Picture Cards to Learn About Electricity

☐ Use alternate assessment to measure ELL progress.Infinitely Reusable Folders for Practice and Assessment.Text What You Learned Using Technology Assessment.*Assessing ELLs in ESL or Mainstream Classrooms: Quick Fixes for Busy Teachers.

☐ Using multiple media, give verbal information and explanations along with a visual presentation, hands-on experiences, use role playing.Supporting ELLs Through Project-Based LearningDeeper Learning For English Language Learners.Visual Cues.Poetry Visualization: Draw What You Hear.Poetry Workstations.Preparing Students to Read: Word and Inferences Wall.Modern Nursery Rhymes: A Musical.Understand Music with Rhythmic Clapping.Book Wizard Mobile App.Fraction Museums with Bob Krech/A Better Way to Teach MathTeaching The Alphabet in 3D.

☐ Using linguistic modifications: repetitions, slow speech, re-stating, controlled sentence length.Tips to Get Students’ Attention.Making The Declaration Of Independence come alive.

☐ Using written and pictorial forms to teach: maps, graphs, charts, pictures, audiovisual aids, lists, semantic maps and webs, flow charts, outlines, thinking maps.

Visual Tool & Storyboarding: Integrating Visual and Verbal by Roger Essley 1-4Latitude and Longitude.Algebra Equation: Algebra Through Hands-On Equation.

☐ Small group instruction, peer tutoring, cooperative learning groups, arranges small discussion and talking activities that permit students to practice verbal skills. Assign buddies and peer tutors to ELLs. Utilize learning centers as alternative instruction to provide sufficient reinforcement of content material. Provide individual and group activities to develop listening and speaking skills through learning centers.

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Reading Workshop.Reading Workshop Overview.Mystery Bags Intro.Mystery Bags In Action.*Differentiated Instruction in the English Classroom: Content, Process, Product, and Assessment.

☐ Using alternative assessments: observation, demonstration, product evaluation, portfolio assessment.

Teacher Talks: Tim Rasinski on Emergent Literacy.Yvonne and David Freeman TalkAbout 1-4: About ELL students in the classroom.Written Conversation by Angela Bunyi 2013.Pam Allyn TalkAbout: 1-6/ About The Complete 4/ Literacy Strategy Support.

☐ Reducing oral and written directions and information to easy-to-understand steps or parts. Keep directions short and simple. Clearly explain work assignments since the ELL student may lack support at home. Provide frequent review and repetition in each step of language and content learning. Provide guidelines for written work.Preparing Learner: Activating Prior Knowledge.Interacting with Complex Texts: Scaffolding Reading.Persuasion Across Time & Space: Unit Overview.Extending Understanding: Vocabulary Development.Preparing Learners: Ethos, Pathos & Logos.Interacting with Complex Texts: Jigsaw Project.

☐ Use as many of the senses (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting) as possible to present information to students.Make A Six-Pack Snowflake.Make A Snowy Day Collage.Jim Henson’s Sid The Science Kid.Jim Henson’s Sid The Science Kids/PBS Learning Media.Exploring The Five Senses.

☐ Utilize the language experience approach which incorporates the experiences, the oral language and interests of the student to develop reading and writing skills. Present new vocabulary extensively, utilize props and facilitate multisensory formats.Modeling Instruction: A lesson using characters and props to strengthen comprehension.Interactive Think-Aloud Lessons by Lori Oczkus: Lessons 1-6Lester L. Lamaniack Unwrapping The Read Aloud.

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