originally posted on achievethecore.org by Diane Staehr Fenner Criteria for Curricular Materials Labeled as Appropriate for ELLs How to determine whether instructional materials support ELLs’ needs Although the CCSS were not originally written with ELLs in mind, there are several tools available for those educators who wish to evaluate the…
originally posted on achievethecore.org by Diane Staehr Fenner The Shifts and ELLs An ELL expert explains what the Common Core means for teachers of English language learners According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the percentage of English language learners (ELLs) in PreK-12 in the United States was just…
Originally posted on Colorin Colorado by Diane Staehr Fenner Three strategies can help teachers more accurately assess their English language learners. At a recent professional development institute in a school district in New York State, I led content-area teachers new to teaching English language learners (ELLs) through a geometry lesson…
By Diane Staehr Fenner and Sydney Snyder / Originally published on the Colorin Colorado website / November 17, 2014 In our last post, we shared information about the new Teaching Channel ELL series based on Academic Conversations (2011) by Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford featuring related classroom videos developed in partnership…
