This packet contains pre-reading, pre-teaching vocabulary and background knowledge supports for English Language Learners for the John Muir: Conservationist on the Quarter task.
Welcome! I have created this E-Portfolio as a guide for Elementary and Middle School ESL teachers (as well as myself), with the intention of utilizing any and all resources available to foster the development of my students, specifically in two areas: Culture and Language Literacy. My hope is that educators, parents, and students add to this website, thereby creating a professional development tool for all to use.
Campus administrators need to have a good understanding of strategies that work with diverse populations they serve. In this paper, the authors share a research-based intervention from a longitudinal randomized trial study funded by the Institute for Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. The intervention is Story Retelling and Higher Order Thinking for English Language and Literacy Acquisition ( STELLA) which combines the following components: (a) integrated ESL strategies, (b) higher order leveled questions, (c) academic vocabulary in the content area of science which was explicitly and implicitly taught, (d) opportunities for students to practice language through retelling, and (e) training for the teachers on a biweekly basis.
