The 6 essential principles for centering the needs of ELLs in foundational literacy lessons will be at the core of the presentation.
For each principle, the presenters will offer background information, rationale for the importance to ELLs, then offer specific strategies and teaching routines to support learning.
The audience will participate in small and whole group discussion opportunities as they learn, connect with, and process the information presented.
About 7-8 minutes will be spent on each content component.
There will be peer-to-peer interaction as well as using whole-group response/engagement activities.
Attendees will learn the essential principles for centering the needs of ELLs in foundational literacy lessons.
Attendees will discover helpful strategies for developing lessons that build language alongside literacy skills.
Attendees will gather information to create linguistically diverse classrooms that foster language-rich environments for their ELLs that consistently and deliberately immerse them in ways that combine literacy skills, language growth, and content learning.
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