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Preparing All Teachers to Meet the Needs of English Language Learners | Center for Amer... - 0 views

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For schools, improving academic outcomes for ELLs is a litmus test for whether teachers are meeting their charge to truly leave no child behind.
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fact that the nation’s teachers are and will increasingly encounter a diverse range of learners requires that every teacher has sufficient breadth and depth of knowledge and range of skills to be able to meet the unique needs of all students, including those who struggle with English
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equally critical to consider how best to prepare mainstream, or general education, teachers to work with English language learners since they are increasingly likely to have such students in their class.
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relatively little attention paid to the essential standards, knowledge, and skills that general education teachers ought to possess in order to provide effective instruction to ELLs placed in their classroom.
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attending to oral language development,
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upporting academic language
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teachers’ cultural sensitivity to the backgrounds of their students
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DLL Research Overview Papers - Child Development (CA Dept of Education).pdf - 0 views

DIIGO_FILE_HOME/1gk30/vuy2 DLL preschool ELL literacy block PLS SPED

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teacher-directed or explicit instruction—is associated with better child academic outcomes on specific knowledge and skills (e.g., letter knowledge, vocabulary words)
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Among school-age children,*reading interventions focusing on phonemic awareness, word recognition, and vocabulary tend to have comparable effects for DLLs (or English learners),
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In schools and classrooms where English immersion is the only feasible option, there are ways that teachers can still bring the home language into the classroom that might contribute to helping children experience home–school continuity, provide opportunities for continued use of the home language, and encourage parents to continue developing children’s native language skills.
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The quality of preschool for young DLLs does not end with the richness of the instruction itself. Teacher–child relationships appear to be important to academic outcomes as well.
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Teachers’ attention to individual academic and emotional needs appears to be related, in particular, to successful mathematics development
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found that rich explanations of target vocabulary, coupled with frequent home reading and higher initial vocabulary in English, made significant contributions to the learning of sophisticated vocabulary from story reading.
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Interactive or dialogic reading is a strategy that engages children in discussions of texts.
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guided instruction—such as explicit vocabulary support—is important for DLLs to make further progress in language development
- Shaeley Santiago on 23 Feb 16
  
  Excellent suggestions for incorporating PLS, especially in classrooms where multiple lgs are present and/or teacher doesn't speak other lgs.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Excellent suggestions for incorporating PLS, especially in classrooms where multiple lgs are present and/or teacher doesn't speak other lgs. </div>
  
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The principal point is that students who are learning content in a language they are simultaneously learning to speak and understand probably need additional supports to make the content comprehensible to them. Teachers must therefore consider using modifications, such as interactive approaches targeting both content and language; graphics, illustrations, and other visuals; direct teaching to help students learn skills and concepts; material with familiar content (in addition, of course, to teaching new content); and using the home language to support concept and language development
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one implication is that teachers need to allocate time and space for intentional interactions aimed at promoting English language use and development.
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- Shaeley Santiago on 23 Feb 16
  
  Katie - See here for info about sign-language & language acquisition.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Katie - See here for info about sign-language & language acquisition.</div>
  
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- Shaeley Santiago on 23 Feb 16
  
  Additional suggestions to include as resource for lit block
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Additional suggestions to include as resource for lit block</div>
  
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taking advantage of cognates can be of value in vocabulary instruction.
- Shaeley Santiago on 23 Feb 16
  
  See the link to the Reading Rockets summary of dialogic reading in the References.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">See the link to the Reading Rockets summary of dialogic reading in the References.</div>
  
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