English Language Learner Strategies and Activities Presentation - Macy Manin.pptx

This presentation provides research-based strategies and activities to support ELL students.

1. English Language Learner Strategies and Activities Presentation Macy Manin

2. Introduction/Presentation Goals ELL Students require strong, research-based supports to be successful Teachers must use diverse strategies to accommodate ELL Presentation Goals: Provide research-based approaches/activities that help with language growth, comprehension of content, promote involvement and opportunities to interact within a lesson both verbally and physically

3. Strategy/Activities: Vocabulary Development ELL Students need concrete language/vocabulary instruction to ensure they are reaching mastery Strategies: Graphic Organizers Word Walls Images and real-world context-based learning Why?: These strategies create visual constructions, make complex concepts more digestible, promote cooperative learning, and makes language applicable (Echevarría et al., 2024)

4. Strategy/Activities: Ensuring Students Comprehend Content Teachers must make sure ELL students are understanding the presented information Strategies: Applicable visuals like objects and signs or gestures Preteaching important vocab before the content Applying background knowledge Why?: These strategies give appropriate backgrounds to comprehend language, give students confidence to participate in discussions, and promote teacher monitoring (Echevarría et al., 2024) (Morita-Mullaney, 2017)

5. Strategy/Activities: Promoting ELL Discussion Class participation, whole group and small group, fosters confidence in language use and understanding of the English language Strategies: Think-Pair-Share Sentence Frames/Stems Small Group Cooperative Learning Why?: These strategies allow ELL students to participate in low stress environments, aids them in responses, and gives them applicable ways to interact with language. (Peregoy et al., 2023)

6. Strategy/Activities: Encouraging Lesson Interaction ELL students need more than worksheets to comprehend language; they need to make significant relationships to the language through use Strategies: Role-play activities Jigsaw method Cooperative Learning Why?: These strategies promote interaction and hands-on experience through applicable use of language (Echevarría et al., 2024)

7. Strategy/Activities: Hands-On Practice for ELLs ELL students benefit tremendously from hands-on activities which give them useful ways to practice language Strategies: Project-based learning Interactive storytelling Manipulatives (Math and Science) Why?: These strategies strengthen comprehension and understanding through context and visualizations as well as promoting active learning (Alharbi, 2015)

8. Strategy/Activities: Integrating Writing, Listening, and Speaking Standards Using strategies to include writing, speaking, and listening standards allows ELLs to get skills associated with important standards Strategies: Include phonemic awareness, decoding, and other literary instruction to lessons Use Response to Intervention (RTI) to promote differentiated instruction Incorporate multiple areas in lesson plans Why?: These strategies can provide custom supports that allow for differentiation and lessons that are customized to each student’s level of proficiency. (Echevarría et al., 2024)

9. Strategy/Activities: Assessment techniques and strategies Assessments offer important data points for teachers and helps guide future instructions and differentiation Strategies: Formatives: Quick Check and Exit Tickets Alternative Assessment: Oral Response, Portfolio Incorporate multiple areas in lesson plans for the student to demonstrate mastery Why?: A diverse set of assessments can provide the teacher with a more accurate picture of what the student understands. (Echevarría et al., 2024)

10. Strategy/Activities: Technology to Support ELL Students Technology can offer great tools to help ELL students and provided tiered instruction with scaffolding built in Strategies: Apps to build vocabulary (I.E. Duolingo) Adjustable reading tools (I.E. Newsela) Speaking apps (I.E. Flipgrid) Why?: Technological supports take care of a lot of the blending for teachers not used to providing those services and can help build confidence for hesitant students (Peregoy et al., 2023)

11. Strategy/Activities: Supporting ELL students in Specific Content Specialties Learning English is difficult enough, so mastering skills in Math, Social Studies, and Science make this even more challenging. Strategies: Social Studies: Use images and timelines Science: Clear vocabulary instruction with scaffolding translations Math: Show and breakdown sample sentence structures in word problems Why?: All these supports make the content more manageable and ensure a teacher will be able to determine that low data is a result of not mastering the content, not the language (Peregoy et al., 2023) (Morita-Mullaney, 2017)

12. Strategy/Activities: Stimulating Family Literacy and Language Engagement Students who consistently work on mastering English outside of the classroom will undoubtedly see more success Strategies: Sending home nonacademic materials like magazines or brochures Giving students and families bilingual supports and materials Providing literacy workshop opportunities for families to attend Why?: When English language learning is a holistic approach and not something simply done in class, results become stronger (Alharbi, 2015)

13. Takeaways Providing ELL students with support can feel challenging but it’s manageable! Just remember to provide… Support structures Interaction and real world, applicable exercises Multiple types of assessments Balanced instruction regarding reading, writing, listening, and speaking Peer to peer, collaborative exercises Family participation and community opportunities

14. References Alharbi, A. M. (2015). Building vocabulary for language learning: Approach for ESL learners to study new vocabulary. Journal of International Students, 5(4), 501-511. Echevarría, J., Vogt, M., Short, D. J., & Toppel, K. (2024). Making content comprehensible for multilingual learners: The SIOP® model (6th ed.). Pearson Education, Inc. Morita-Mullaney, T. (2017). Borrowing legitimacy as English learner (EL) leaders: Indiana’s 14 year history with English language proficiency standards. Language Testing, 34(2), 241-270. Peregoy, S. F., Boyle, O. F., & Amendum, S. J. (2023). Reading, writing, and learning in ESL: A resource book for teaching K–12 multilingual learners (8th ed.). Pearson Education, Inc.