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Designing Effective ELD Instruction

Empowering Multilingual Learners through Instruction.

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How do we implement effective ELD instruction?

Culturally Responsive Practices

Invite family and community perspectives "Newcomer Night"

Use heritage language assets

Affirm students' identities

Writing

Offer feedback loops through peer and teacher review.

Support with shared and modeled writing.

Scaffold with sentence/paragraph frames.

Reading

Choose culturally relevant and represenrtational reading materials.

Use texts and tiered vocabulary.

Speaking

Structured oral practice

Encourage group discussion and participation.

Model academic sentence frames.

Listening

Practice comprehension with visual supports.

Scaffold with vocabulary previews/worksheets.

Use audio with transcripts.

How to achieve that?

How we know it's working?

Check-ins and reflections

Portfolios showing written and spoken progress.

ELPA Data

Monitor language growth through assessment and feedback

Create inclusive and culturally responsive classroom environments!

Provide effective ELD instruction that integrates listening, speaking, reading, and writing.