This is one of my absolute favorite strategies when teaching vocabulary to English Learners. Grab the FREE  template here  and watch the vid...

In this strategy, students are asked to select or draw and image they feel relates to a concept, topic or text. Students share their images ...

Blackout poetry is a type of found poetry that students create by blacking out words and phrases in an existing text. The remaining words co...

This is a simple, no-prep strategy that is super easy to implement with your ELLs. It works as a pre-assessment for new vocabulary, or as a ...

Before starting a new unit or topic, it is important to find out what students already know, and connect it to the new concepts they'll...

One key way to get your ELLs talking is to ask high-quality questions. This means we should plan our questions in advance, and ensure that w...

As part of my job, I routinely visit content classrooms to observe instruction. Often times I walk into these classrooms and find them to be...