Teacher Resources

Promoting Academic Language Development
Staff Development presented at PDW October 14, 2015
Focus on: cooperative learning structures and the Can Do Philosophy

 Classroom Teacher Folder 2015-16

 Classroom Teacher Folder 2014-15

 Stanford ELL Modules
Course materials used by Stanford professors from 2003-2012 to prepare teachers to work with students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, shared with the public for free.

 Frayer Model and other Marzano strategies:
http://www.adlit.org/strategies/22369/
http://www.readingeducator.com/strategies/frayer.htm
http://www.palmbeachschools.org/qa/documents/Handout5-MarzanoHighYieldStrategies.pdf

Reciprocal Teaching:
Description of reciprocal teaching:
http://www.readingquest.org/strat/rt.html

Information about how to implement reciprocal teaching in the general education classroom:
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/reciprocal_teaching/

Research on implementing reciprocal teaching in the primary grades: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/40008/


Think-Pair-Share
Information about how to implement think-pair-share in the general education classroom:
http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/strats/think/

Kagan Cooperative Structures:
Brief article describing how cooperative structures help support ELLs (and all students) in the classroom setting:
http://www.kaganonline.com/free_articles/dr_spencer_kagan/279/Kagan-Structures-for-English-Language-Learners

Brief article describing one research study that supports the use of cooperative structures to increase ELLs (and all students) achievement:
http://www.kaganonline.com/free_articles/research_and_rationale/325/Kagan-Structures-Increase-Achievement-at-Catalina-Ventura-School

Research supporting the use of cooperative structures for all students:
http://clc2.uniservity.com/GroupHomePage.asp?GroupID=174544

Strategic Oral Language Instruction:
“The National Literacy Panel concluded in 2006 that high-quality reading instruction alone will be ‘insufficient to support equal academic success’ for ELLs, and that ‘simultaneous efforts to increase the scope and sophistication of these students’ oral language proficiency’ is also required.” (August and Shanahan, 2006)) To address the need to develop more academic language proficiency, especially for oral proficiency as a prerequisite for literacy skills development, three strategies are needed minimally:
a. Use cooperative grouping configurations regularly
b. Identify vocabulary and academic expressions (sentence stems) for practice
c. Provide an environment that supports and encourages the regular use of academic language

 Research and specific strategies for teaching oral language to improve literacy development:
http://www.ballard-tighe.com/pdfs/fff/whitepaper_email.pdf
 http://connect.ilprincipals.org/blogsmain/blogviewer/?BlogKey=e79cc539-8a99-40e5-b89a-8d86dbe93bce

Academic Vocabulary in Math:
http://www.austinschools.org/curriculum/math/elem/resources/general/M_el_res_acVocabBridge.pdf

Simplifying math test language:
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/mathematics/plain_english_information.pdf 


Wida Can-Do Descriptors: Read about how to differentiate instruction for English language learners (ELLs) in your classroom. Click on the pdf for your specific grade level to see a basic overview of what the Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing proficiency level results on the Model, W-Apt, or ACCESS tests indicate about your students' abilities and what they "can do." http://www.wida.us/standards/CAN_DOs/

Language Functions
http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/standards/elp/files/langfunc.pdf
http://www.htsb.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Academic-Language-Functions-toolkit.pdf 

Instructional Strategies to Support Content-Based Instruction
http://www.learner.org/workshops/teachreading35/pdf/content_instruct_for_ell.pdf
http://www.carla.umn.edu/cobaltt/modules/strategies/index.html

Learning Strategies Resource Guide
http://www.nclrc.org/eils/

Language Policy Matters
Become more aware of the research on what produces the best outcomes for schools’ increasingly diverse student populations.
http://ea.niusileadscape.org/docs/FINAL_PRODUCTS/LearningCarousel/Language-Policy-Matters.pdf

Dual Language Learners: The Early Years
http://wida.us/resources/focus/WIDA_Focus_on_Early_Years.pdf

Other good websites with resources:
http://www.cal.org/resource-center/links
http://www.readingrockets.org/atoz/english_language_learners/
http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/tools.htm
http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/index.htm
http://www.allianceforchildhood.org/
areadingplace.com
readworks.org







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