Primary/Elementary Ed

Literacy and New MLLs in U.S. Elementary Schools: Another Look

In my August blog post, I talked about the characteristics of multilingual learners (MLLs) who come from families and communities that are literacy oriented.

Author: Judie Haynes

Literacy and New MLLs in U.S. Elementary Schools

Teachers of multilingual learners (MLLs) in the United States will be meeting new students from many countries this fall.

Author: Judie Haynes

10 Tips on Strengthening Home-School Partnerships Through Effective Family Engagement

In the context of schooling, family engagement refers to the process of schools and families working together through a participatory and collaborative approach to support a child’s learning and well-being.

Author: Naashia Mohamed

Elementary School Writing for MLLs: Interview With Joanna Wong

Joanna Wong, Associate Professor, College of Education, California State University, Monterey Bay, is an elementary school teacher educator who holds a PhD in education focused on language, literacy, and culture.

Author: Betsy Gilliland

The Importance of Body Language for Effective Oral Communication

For those educators who are teaching multilingual language learners (MLLs), body language is an important topic to address.

Author: Judie Haynes

8 Books to Read About Teaching MLLs

In my April blog, I listed seven online resources that I generally read under the #MLLCHAT hashtag on Twitter.

Author: Judie Haynes

7 Resources From the #MLLCHAT Community

I have long been an active member of a Twitter community that supports teachers of multilingual learners (MLLs).

Author: Judie Haynes

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

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