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Wordle created by The ESL Nexus |
Judie Haynes, a long-time and well-known ELL educator, offers four ways to scaffold vocabulary for ELLs in a recent blog post:
* By activating schema
* By explicitly teaching new academic vocabulary words
* By using graphic organizers
* By using sentence frames
Here’s the link to the complete article, which very clearly explains the rationale for using each strategy: "4 Strategies for Scaffolding Instruction for Els".
If you are wondering which academic words are most useful for ELLs to know, you might be interested in one of my products--lists of the most important content vocabulary words by grade and by subject, as determined by a group of middle school teachers:
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Click HERE for more info; source: The ESL Nexus |
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Click HERE for more info; source: The ESL Nexus |