Online Learning
Here you’ll find videos, sample lessons, and instructional tools that provide guidance for improving teaching and learning for English learners. These online resources are a new component of EL Services’ work that is evolving to meet the needs of the local education community.
Videos
These videos highlight strategies for improving instruction for English learners and provide resources for implementation and further study.
ELD Lesson, Contractions & Compound Words: Students in teacher Debra McCampbell’s class sort contractions and compound words using a Tree Map. The lesson also showcases a variety of effective ELD instructional strategies. | Video
Supporting ELD Instruction with Graphic Organizers: This is the first of a series of SCOE videos on supporting ELD instruction with graphic organizers. Here, teacher Debra McCampbell uses a Tree Map to teach adjectives. | Video
Kindergarten ELD: Teacher Brandy Raymond is shown presenting an ELD lesson she developed using a lesson planning format that emphasizes overt language objectives. | Video | Lesson Plan | Related Brief
Grade 5 SDAIE Science: In this fifth-grade science lesson, teacher Tara Lyon balances content and language objectives. | Video | Lesson Plan | Related Brief
Five Components of English Language Instruction: Kevin Clark explains how phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon, and semantics are fundamental to learning English. | Video | Related Brief
Instructional Tools
Formative Assessment Recording Tool (pdf)
Aiming High Briefs
Published from 2005 to 2010, the Aiming High Briefs were a series of publications developed by the EL Services staff to highlight strategies for improving instruction for English learners and provide resources for implementation and further study. The Briefs are available below as PDF documents.
Using Formative Assessment to Monitor Language Proficiency | Jan-Feb 2010
School Talk: Communicating with the Parents of English Learners | Nov 2009
Structuring Language Instruction for Stalled English Learners | Sept 2009
Developing & Delivering Lessons with Overt Language Objectives | Jan-Feb 2009
School & Classroom Structures for ELD | Oct 2008
Using Research to Improve EL Achievement | Dec 2007
Is it Time for a Newcomer Program? | May 2007
Structuring Effective ELD Instruction, Tonya Ward Singer | May 2007
Deconstructing Language, Vanessa Girard & Pam Spycher | Mar 2007
Effective Instruction for English Learners, Margarita Calderón | Oct 2006
Making Mathematics Accessible to English Learners | Apr 2006
Providing Language Instruction, Susana Dutro | Jan 2006
Teaching Academic Vocabulary, Kate Kinsella | Nov 2005
Preparing for Effective Vocabulary Instruction, Kate Kinsella | Oct 2005
Designs for Learning: The Story of Success | Apr 2005
AVID, Advancement Via Individual Determination | Mar 2005
Thinking Maps: Strategy-Based Learning | Feb 2005
Role of Language in Academic Development | Jan 2005
Contact
- Patty Dineen, Regional Director, English Learner Services
(707) 522-3151, - Susana Lowery, Program Director, English Learners & Reading-Language Arts
(707) 522-3039,
