Resources
Engaged ELL parents bring invaluable dedication and wisdom regarding their children to the school community and can be crucial partners in supporting their children's success. This guide offers twenty big ideas to help school leaders get started on the path towards a strong home-school partnership.
This site has a plethora of resources and ideas for successfully implementing the SIOP Model in the classroom. Each SIOP Component is featured along with many other tools and resources for the EL classroom.
This guide, adapted from a text by the same name, by Jana Echevarria and Mary Ellen Vogt, offers 99 ideas and ways to implement the SIOP Model in the classroom. Each SIOP component is featured.
This site offers key information for the WIDA, ELD standards and teaching information, professional learning, and the history of WIDA.
This resource features the following: various documents to help understand the WIDA Standards Framework, features of academic language, connection to Common Core State Standards, Strands of Model Performance Indicators, and various figures pertinent to the strands and standards.
Critical Media Project (CMP) is a free media literacy web resource for educators and students (ages 8-21) that enhances young people’s critical thinking and empathy, and builds on their capacities to advocate for change around questions of identity. CMP has a two-fold mission:
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This document offers definitions which represent how ELLs at each of the development levels process language to comprehend information, ideas, or concepts as they listen and read.
The SIOP Model consists of 8 Components and 30 Features. This guide, adapted from Making Content Comprehensible for English Language Learners, The SIOP Model by Jana Echevarria, Mary Ellen Vogt and Deborah J. Short, offers ideas and ways to implement the SIOP Model in the classroom.
This document offers definitions which represent how ELLs at each of the development levels use language to express information, ideas, or concepts through oral and written communication.
This document contains sets of descriptors of students' linguistic abilities. General education teachers, students, and parents will find this helpful in order to interpret test results or set goals for language development.
This document offers educators examples and verbs to help write affective and appropriate content and language objectives when implementing the SIOP Model in the classroom.
Higher Order Thinking (H.O.T.) Questions Starters and Frames
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