WHAT? Use a graphic organizers at the beginning, middle and end of a lesson. WHY? Graphic organizers help language learners become familiar with and organize vocabulary and concepts in a visually accessible way, helping them to understand the lesson concepts and language throughout the lesson. There is a body of...

Robert J. Marzano has become famous for testing instructional strategies to see if they result in quantitative achievement gains.  The following is a summary of his vocabulary learning strategy and some products that may help you to implement the process.  (Be sure to do all six steps!  His research has...

  This is my new favorite teaching tool!   Write and Wipe Pockets are so flexible and give students the opportunity to practice reading and writing in English!  Check out my YouTube video with lots of ideas for how to use them!

Watch my short video blog on flexible ways to use cubes in the classroom to enhance language practice and reinforce content and language learning.   This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 at 4:27 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry...

I was doing some research on the Department of Education website (ed.gov) for a book I am writing and stumbled upon a new tool for educators and administrators.  Their Doing What Works website makes sense of research-based practices for teaching English Language Learners and more.  They’ve got videos, classroom examples,...

In their study of 238 preschoolers, Leung, Silverman, Nandakumar, Qian, and Hines’ (2011) findings suggest that both monolingual English speakers and English Language Learners learned English words in a similar order – meaning that the order of word difficulty of their word list was the similar for both groups.  However,...