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Keep Moving Forward

"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening…

SDAIE Social Studies

The goal of teaching Social Studies is to help students develop the ability to make…

Content-Area Application

Holla for CALLA No child Left Behind (2002) spawned CALLA, the Cognitive Academic Language Learning…

Re-presenting Information

After students have learned something new, they can transform that knowledge into another way of…

Adapted Instruction

Teacher's To-do List for Instructional Conversation Arrange the classroom to accommodate conversation between the teacher…

ELL Comprehensive Reading Program

A balanced, comprehensive reading program would include several components, but I will discuss two of…

Instructional Designs for ELLs

Let's compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of a few of the common instructional…

Alternative Forms of Assessment for ELLs

Alternative forms of assessment are needed for English Language Learners (ELL) because they're not able to…

SDAIE

Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English SDAIE or Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English, has…

MMTS Multimedia Text Sets

Multimedia Text Sets (MMTS) are kind of like HyperDocs, but not. MMTS are set-up for students…