@nfontes

Multilingual Educator

[Colorín Colorado @ColorinColorado]

Language Objectives: The Key to Effective Content Area Instruction for English Learners

This article includes tips, examples, and expert videos.

https://t.co/QzOPQ7HQ14

[🌍 Dr. Vαℓєηтιηα Gσηzαℓєz ♥️🙌🏽 @ValentinaESL]

Bilingualism can be a person’s greatest human capital. In education we can help foster a love & value for languages. We can invite & encourage students to use their full language repertoires. This is part of their gift! Let’s buil it & not ignore it.

#teachingideas #teachingresources #teachingkids #teachingenglish #bilingualchildren #multilingualkids

[Colorín Colorado @ColorinColorado]

Our popular text engineering strategy has a slide deck with examples and ideas for PD -- plus a new set of resources related to scaffolding with AI!

(Example via ClaudeAI)

https://t.co/yWdziMK8u5

[Dr. José Medina (él, he, his, him) @JoseMedinaJr89]

Our team member, David Nungaray, had an amazing day facilitating #duallanguage job-embedded coaching alongside teachers from Richland School District! Students and teachers owning biliteracy instruction!

[🌍 Dr. Vαℓєηтιηα Gσηzαℓєz ♥️🙌🏽 @ValentinaESL]

Getting stretchy with sentences! I’m sharing this again per request from a teacher who DMed me.

*Tip: model this step by step using a concept currently being studied by students. Then have them practice with a group or partner to create a similar sentence.

[Colorín Colorado @ColorinColorado]

ELL Strategy: Total Physical Response

Total Physical Response (TPR) connects vocabulary and phrases to actions or gestures.

https://t.co/ivfZewkqmX

[Colorín Colorado @ColorinColorado]

ELL Strategy: Using Visuals

Visuals can be a powerful way to engage students, help them make important connections, and make new content and vocabulary accessible. This strategy includes a slide deck for turnkey PD sessions.

https://t.co/zXn13uyPz6

[Colorín Colorado @ColorinColorado]

ELL Strategy: Sentence Frames and 
Sentence Starters

Sentence frames and starters are "fill in the blank" phrases and sentences that provide the structures or patterns that students need to express themselves. This is our most popular strategy!

https://t.co/q1U5N2Ktke

[WIDA™ @WIDA_UW]

Our latest Focus Bulletin gives practical examples of how collaborative, culturally sustaining approaches can support Indigenous students’ success while honoring the sovereignty and vitality of their languages and cultures. Check it out!

https://t.co/8zRfNq7nB0

[Colorín Colorado @ColorinColorado]

Personal Stories for Middle Grades: Hispanic Heritage

https://t.co/jzURUMUi4l

[Colorín Colorado @ColorinColorado]

ELL Strategy: Sentence Combining

Sentence combining is a strategy that teaches students to write detail-rich sentences with more complexity.

https://t.co/AfPlZaDPgu

[Colorín Colorado @ColorinColorado]

Graphic Novels for Middle Grades and Ya: Hispanic Heritage | https://t.co/r4ML38CSc1

[Colorín Colorado @ColorinColorado]

ELL Strategy: See-Think-Wonder

This visible thinking routine launches a unit or text with an image and uses students' observations, inferences, and questions to develop vocabulary and background knowledge before starting a unit.

https://t.co/P6KsdmHNtU

[Colorín Colorado @ColorinColorado]

Here's a free slide deck you can use for "grab and go" PD!

What It Feels Like to Be a Language Learner

https://t.co/wyw5W4PER5

[Dina Cerra @DinaTCerra]

So excited for Dual Language at ⁦@324Hope⁩ !!

[PPSD Multilingual Learners @ppsdMLLs]

Week 1 of school ✅
We are proud to begin the 25–26 SY alongside our amazing students, families and school communities! We strive to ensure every MLL receives what they need to thrive! Reach out to [email protected] for anything you may need throughout the year! We are here for you!

[PPSD Multilingual Learners @ppsdMLLs]

📣Shout-out to Mr. Buckley, an ENG/ELD teacher @324Hope, for using multiple MLL strategies today to set up routines that will support content and language instruction throughout the year! MLLs thrive when they have structured opportunities to interact with peers!

[Brendan O'Sullivan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @ImtaBrendan]

Very nice Bloom's Taxonomy cheat sheet! Fantastic for planning, questioning and skill development.

[Colorín Colorado @ColorinColorado]

ELL Strategy: Accountable Talk (includes video)

https://t.co/TjZKaB9ysO

[Colorín Colorado @ColorinColorado]

ELL Strategy: Annotated Diagrams

https://t.co/V8orpLJe4q