Reading high-quality academic texts is crucial to #multilingual learners' language development. Here's a short thread with examples of how to scaffold a text prior to doing the reading activity. 🧵⬇ (1/3) #EAL #MLs #edutwitter #reading

Need another teacher in the room? Let the walls start teaching too. Learned so much from Dr. Carol Salva with leaders from around the US about making secondary schools structures for newcomer students! #emergingmultilinguals #eldshines

Learning about how all our languages handle nouns and verbs in G3! Do we change the nouns if they are plural? Do verbs conjugate? Not always! 12 languages represented in 3SA. #translanguaging Ceci Gomez-Galvez (she.her.ella) Tatiana Kladova (she/her, она) SSIS

📖 Reading Aloud to Middle Grades 📚 sbee.link/fey4wnbxqg via @valentinaesl #mschat #elar #teachertwitter

. Canva is making great advances that are helpful to teachers of English Learners.

#WIDA is giving away one registration to the 2023 WIDA Annual Conference. To enter, complete the following by 4/25: 1. Follow WIDA 2. Like this post 3. Reply and tell us why you want to attend #WIDA2023 this year? Learn more about #WIDA2023: events.wida.us

Agree totally with this 👇🏽Kuldeep Matharu Gezina Gillen Ramsey Dilek Eryilmaz Salki @ECISMLIE BSN EAL #multilingual #EAL

Effective vocabulary instruction for #ELs ✅helps with comprehension ✅expands students' listening, speaking, reading, & writing vocabulary ✅leads to greater engagement & motivation to learn. To make a copy of the #ELL2point0 infographic, click ⬇️ 📌bit.ly/3onc9Uy

Yay, new books! 📚 I make it a point to not *only* have books for my EAL students in my class library. Any student can find a book to read in my room-helps eliminate stigma around language learning and ‘the EAL classroom’. All students come to read or work in my room. #mll #ell

"One career counselor, who was legally blind, told me I faced two difficulties: unlike hers, I have an invisible disability that people don’t see & understand, and adults forget that students with learning differences grow up & still face them." #dyslexia edsource.org/2023/without-s…

If you truly want to know what a #multilingual student understands about a topic, let them express their knowledge through all of their languages. #MultilingualMindMapping #Year5

Four Surefire Techniques for Engaging ELs and Creating ELL Friendly Classrooms SchoolLibraryJournal Still a well loved article and visual. slj.com/story/four-sur…

#Therapydogs on AIS Budapest campus during the HS #exam week.There's something truly magical about the calming touch of these beautiful creatures. #MentalWellness

My son was termed a “reluctant reader” in KINDERGARTEN and I watched him give up on school as his teacher said comics were getting in the way of literacy. Was given awful boring nonsensical Bob books instead. He WANTED to read comics, with built-in scaffolding, engagement, and

Far too many popular strategies for teaching reading are not actually supported by research. We sifted through to find the ones that are most effective.

Got research? Join the MLRC at a Research Symposium this year. Together we will explore research-based insights and opportunities for teaching multilingual learners. Barcelona: Nov 18-19, 2023 Singapore: Dec 2-3, 2023 Guatemala City: Jan 27-28, 2024 mlrc.wisc.edu/events/

Does anyone know if WIDA ever published the outcomes of the WIDA-CEFR correlation project work from January? I remember at the time summer was mentioned as the expected timeline. Have I missed it somewhere? Jon Nordmeyer 🌎 AToma (she/her) WIDA™

Some things I learned teaching my first college class, a 🧵: • you have to model any skill you want students to do successfully. If you can’t teach it explicitly (how to organize, how to annotate) or you think they should already know, then model and keep modeling. You have to.

Looking for international schools that use LAS Links Online for admissions testing. Anyone use it or have a connection to someone who does that you could connect me with? Thx! #MLL #EAL #internationalschool #englishlanguagelearning #ESL #CEESA #ELMLE #AISC #AISA #ECISMLIE #ECIS