Primary/Elementary Ed

Optimizing Reading Comprehension for MLLS: 6 Strategies

When my school first adopted the Reading Workshop, a teaching method in which the goal is to teach students strategies for reading and comprehension, I became a proponent of this approach and worked to find ways to adapt it to the needs of multilingual learners (MLLs).

Author: Judie Haynes

6 Questions to Support Multilingual Learners in Learning Content-Area Vocabulary

If teachers of multilingual learners (MLLs), whether they are in the general education classroom or in an ESL class, want to help MLLs to understand content-area texts, they need to use strategies that help students gain new academic vocabulary. Here are six questions that teachers should ask themselves.

Author: Judie Haynes

4 Reasons to Celebrate “Random Acts of Kindness Day”

Multilingual learners’ (MLLs) well-being, as they return to school at the height of the spread of the Omicron variant, is at risk.

Author: Judie Haynes

Navigating the Reading Wars With English Learners

If you follow literacy issues, you have probably heard of the Reading Wars.

Author: Barbara Gottschalk

5 Tips for Supporting New Multilingual Students and Families

Over the last fortnight, I spoke with several immigrant families with school-aged children who narrated to me their stories of migration and starting a new life in a different country.

Author: Naashia Mohamed

8 Reasons Teachers Are Burned Out (And 4 Ways to Help)

Most U.S. schools moved to virtual learning in March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic caused many sections of the country to shut down.

Author: Judie Haynes

4 Poetry Ideas for Young Language Learners

Language learners can often find writing poetry to be an intimidating task, but with some structure and examples, poetry can be easy and fun to write for language learners of any level.

Author: Hetal Ascher

4 Critical Strategies for Teaching Multilingual Learners

Recently, #MLLCHAT on Twitter had a dynamic discussion based on a new book by authors Andrea Honigsfeld, Maria Dove, Audrey Cohen, and Carrie McDermott Goldman entitled From Equity Insights to Action: Critical Strategies for Teaching Multilingual Learners.

Author: Judie Haynes

4 Ways Teachers of ELs Differ From Reading Teachers

“Are you teaching them to read?” asked the custodian as she unlocked the door to my classroom.

Author: Barbara Gottschalk

6 Strategies to Balance the Use of L1 and English in the ESL Classroom

During a recent Twitter chat, a teacher of multilingual learners (MLLs) wrote that she was struggling with a class of fifth and sixth graders who persisted in speaking their home language (Spanish) in class.

Author: Judie Haynes

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