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Tag Archives: content-based instruction
6 Questions to Support Multilingual Learners in Learning Content-Area Vocabulary
Judie Haynes
If teachers of multilingual learners (MLLs), whether they are in the general education classroom or in an ESL class, want to help MLLs to understand content-area texts, they need to use strategies that help students gain new academic vocabulary. Here … Continue reading
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Tagged as content-based instruction, elementary ESL, elementary writing, ESL vocab, primary education, Teaching Vocabulary
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Successfully Implement Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning for ELs
Darlyne de Haan
All kids are curious, no matter where they are born or what language they speak. Curiosity—the desire to understand and explain how the world works—drives the questions that we ask and the investigations that we conduct. But how do we … Continue reading
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Tagged as content and language integrated learning, content-based instruction, science, STEM, STEM in ELT
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STEM and ELT: 7 Science Reading Strategies
Darlyne de Haan
There is growing interest in how to teach English learners (ELs) science in the general education classroom especially because science contains a lot of reading and academic language. The strategies I discuss here, including the four strategies from Part 1 … Continue reading
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Tagged as content-based instruction, math, reading, reading strategies, science, STEM, teaching reading
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8 Strategies for Teaching Math to English Learners
Judie Haynes
Classroom and ESL teachers often discuss difficulties they encounter when teaching math to English learners (ELs). The first step is to look at the challenges your students face when learning math in English. It’s often said that “math is a … Continue reading
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Tagged as content-based instruction, language learning strategies, math, math strategies, primary education, scaffolding
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Helping Secondary Students Develop Scientific Literacy
Nathan Hall
Secondary ELL teachers who focus on content-based instruction quickly become masters at adapting vocabulary. With a little familiarity of the subject and the assignment’s goals, they can turn a seldom-used word into something more conversational faster than most people can … Continue reading
Challenges for ELs in the Social Studies Classroom
Judie Haynes
Understanding the language and concepts used in a social studies classroom provides an enormous challenge to ELs. ELs generally lack prior knowledge of the U.S. history, geography, and current events needed to understand new material in social studies, and even … Continue reading
Combining Content-Based Instruction With Career Goals in Secondary School
Nathan Hall
High school is the time when many young people start considering different careers. Those who are more interested in science take better notes of what happens in labs, while the aspiring artists and writers start searching for their voice. But … Continue reading
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Tagged as career goals, CBI, classroom activities, content-based instruction, evergreen, Nathan Hall, secondary school
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Making Word Problems Less Problematic
Nathan Hall
I worked in adult ESL education before earning my secondary school teacher certification, and one student I’ll always remember was a woman who was a math teacher in her former country. She could handle problems and equations so easily, I … Continue reading
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Tagged as content-based instruction, evergreen, math, Nathan Hall, secondary education, word problems
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