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Schools and Community
Supporting English Language Learners
EL Education believes that English Language Learners (ELLs) deserve the same rich, compelling, and challenging curriculum that other students receive. The basic design of EL Education’s curriculum is inherently and intentionally supportive of ELLs, incorporating many oral and literacy approaches that support their learning needs. These approaches are critical to language development and also help establish equity: teachers and students unlock the “secret code” behind how language works. Additionally, varying levels of support in using English are built in at the lesson and unit level to assist ELLs with this compelling and challenging curriculum. This is your guide to how to get started with the multiple levels of ELL supports in our curriculum.
• Start with the Eight High-Leverage Approaches for Supporting ELLs in the Supporting English Language Learners section of your Module 1 Appendix. This will give you access to a few powerful practices you can put to immediate use in your classroom.
• As you prepare to teach a new unit, go to the Supporting English Language Learners section of the Unit Overview to see where some of these practices, like Language Dives and Conversation Cues, are placed in that unit. This section of the Unit Overview will tell you which lessons contain Language Dives in the Supporting Materials, and how Conversation Cues are introduced or emphasized in the lessons.
• At the lesson level, you will nd additional supports for ELLs in the Supporting English Language Learners section at the start of the lesson, and embedded throughout in the Meeting Students’ Needs section of the daily lesson plan. This section includes di erentiated levels of support for students with di erent levels of language pro ciency needed for that day’s work.
• For a better understanding of Language Dives and Conversation Cues and how they support your students, read the Language Dives and Conversation Cues sections in your Module 1 Appendix.
Additional Resources
Read Your Curriculum Companion: The Essential Guide to the EL Education K-5 Language Arts Curriculum, a complete guide to implementing our curriculum, available on ELeducation.org and through booksellers.
Find a complete set of classroom protocols, including all of the protocols used in your lessons, in the Classroom Protocols pack on Curriculum.ELeducation.org. Our book Management in the Active Classroom is also a rich resource for protocols and classroom management strategies, available on ELeducation.org and through booksellers.
Watch instructional videos showing our curriculum at work in real classrooms on Curriculum.ELeducation.org. Dig into our online set of PD Packs and other implementation resources on Curriculum.ELeducation.org.
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