English Learner Instruction
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 component of SCOE’s work that is evolving to meet the needs of the local education community.
Supporting ELD with Graphic Organizers
Contractions and Compound Words | Dec 2011
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.
Teaching Adjectives, 4th Grade | Feb 2011
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.
Aiming High Resource Briefs
The Aiming High Briefs focus on strategies for improving instruction for English Learners and provide resources for implementation and further study.
Monitoring Language Proficiency | Jan-Feb 2010
Formative assessment strategies in instructional programs for English learners are explored in this Aiming High Brief.
Additional Resource:
Formative Assessment Recording Tool (pdf)
Structuring Language Instruction | Sept 2009
EL consultant Kevin Clark says that focusing ELD instruction on the five components of language will help students who plateau at the intermediate level.
Developing Language Objectives | Jan-Feb 2009
This Aiming High Brief on developing language objectives is accompanied by a video showing a kindergarten ELD lesson developed and taught with overt language goals.
Grade 5 SDAIE lesson
Here is a second video showing a lesson taught following the lesson planning strategy outlined in the Aiming High Brief.
Additional Resources:
Sample ELD Lesson Plan: Kindergarten (pdf)
Sample SDAIE Lesson Plan: Grade 5, Science (pdf)
Archive
Aiming High Briefs, 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,
