Text Dependent Questions for ELLs

Posted by Diane Staehr Fenner
On January 24, 2014
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academic language, close reading, Colorin Colorado, Common Core, ELL, English as a Second Language, English language learner, text dependent questions, Tim Shanahan

Originally posted January 24, 2014 on Colorin Colorado by Diane Staehr Fenner In this week’s post, I’ll circle back to another theme from Tim Shanahan’s fascinating article called “Letting the Text Take Center Stage” (American Educator, Fall 2013). As you may recall from my previous posts, Shanahan’s article explores the issues of background knowledge and text […]

Posted by Diane Staehr Fenner
On January 21, 2014
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background knowledge, Colorin Colorado, Common Core, ELL, Tim Shanahan

By Diane Staehr Fenner | Originally published December 12, 2013 on Colorin Colorado This week, I’d like to focus on a topic that is getting a lot of attention in Common Core conversations: the role of background knowledge in reading instruction for ELLs. You may recall that close reading is one of the major shifts of […]

Text Dependent Questions for ELLs

Determining How Much Background Knowledge to Provide for ELLs