This practice guide provides four recommendations that address what works for English learners during reading and content area instruction. Each recommendation includes extensive examples of activities that can be used to support students as they build the language and literacy skills needed to be successful in school, including examples of how the recommendations align with Common Core and other contemporary state standards. The recommendations also summarize and rate supporting evidence. This guide is geared toward teachers, administrators, and other educators who want to improve instruction in academic content and literacy for English learners in elementary and middle school.
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Teach a set of academic vocabulary words intensively across several days using a variety of instructional activities.
This video shows how to extend elementary classroom learning to the home with two Family and Caregiver Activity Sheets:
Asking and Answering Questions About an Informational Text and Writing Note...
This video demonstrates how educators, families, and caregivers partnered to prepare transitional kindergarten children for classroom
lessons on sequential language and then extend this learning ...
This video focuses on how the Family and Caregiver Activity sheets Word Detective and Interviewing a Special Person can extend classroom
lessons on academic vocabulary to help elementary age Engl...
What Works Clearinghouse released a webinar for educators on evidence-based practices to support math, reading, and writing instruction, as well as instructional resources to share with parents and ca...
What Works Clearinghouse released a webinar for educators on evidence-based practices to support math, reading, and writing instruction, as well as instructional resources to share with parents and ca...
This infographic provides examples from two practice guides about secondary school instruction in writing that can be implemented for free or at a low cost in remote learning settings.
This infographic provides examples from three practice guides about elementary school instruction in reading that can be implemented for free or at a low cost in remote learning settings.
This infographic provides examples from two practice guides about elementary school instruction in writing that can be implemented for free or at a low cost in remote learning settings.
Newcomer English learner students must navigate new social structures, school systems, and cultural dynamics-while learning new content in English. One way schools can support them is by building teac...
This guide is designed to assist teams of educators in applying the evidence-based strategies presented in the Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle Schoo...
Using the What Works Clearinghouse guide on Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School, this archived webinar focuses on foundational reading skills for...
How can teachers help English learners build their language skills while they learn complex grade-level content? This REL Northwest instructional video illustrates four evidence-based practices teache...
This bridge event webinar, Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School, was hosted by the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southwest on November 10,...
This bridge event webinar, Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School, was hosted by the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southwest on November 10,...
This bridge event webinar, Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School, was hosted by the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southwest on November 10,...
This bridge event webinar, Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to EnglishLearners in Elementary and Middle School, was hosted by the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southwest on November 10, ...
The presenters cover key recommendations in the areas of academic vocabulary, content-area material, written language, and small-group instructional intervention. The slide deck is available along wit...
The practice guide is also available in e-book format. Materials from the webinar with the practice guide panelists are also available. Click below to access any of the available resources.
This guide is designed to assist teams of educators in applying the evidence-based strategies presented in the Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School educator's practice guide to help K–8 English learners acquire the language and literacy skills needed to succeed academically.
This protocol guided the review of research that informed the recommendations contained in the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) updated English learner practice guide, Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School, published in April 2014.