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Moving Ahead

While passing by an open door, you hear Jorge, a 4th grade ELL student, some sentences from a story that he wrote for homework using the week's vocabulary terms. The teacher, Ms. Shoefit, has 24 students in her ELA class and 10 of those students are English learners. How can Ms. Shoefit balance trying to reach the goal of increasing the English of her ELL students while trying to move ahead with her regular students?

Posted on: 10/12/15 | Views: 826
Solution #1
I think when you have a range of students in your classroom, an efficient way to reach all of the students is small group activities. Group the students by what you want to achieve. This will allow you to differentiate the different activities for each group and focus on what that small group of students need. This will give you the opportunity to increase the skills needed by your ELL students and giving you the ability to move on with your regular ed. students.

Utilizing leveled readers as opposed to a basal reader and differentiating skill based activities are wonderful ways to meet the needs of students at all levels. Words Your Way is a differentiated spelling program that is worth checking out.

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Solution #2
Differentiated instruction with small groups would be an answer. You could also pair higher students with ELL students to practice vocabulary.
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Solution #3
The best way to reach all students is through guided reading groups. If the teacher breaks the class into groups of 4-5 students based on their reading levels, she can differentiate to meet each student's need.
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Solution #4
Differentiate instruction is the key to Ms. Shoefit's dilemma. The ELL students can continue becoming proficient in English while still moving forward with the class. Students in 4th grade are working on finding the main idea and key details within a text. Ms. Shoefit's regular students will fill out a graphic organizer using complete sentences, and her ELL's will write the main idea in a complete sentence started by the teacher and draw pictures or two words describing the key details within the story. The Ell's can demonstrate their knowledge of theme and key details without being bogged down with having to write four complete sentences.
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Solution #5
If Ms. Shoefit have time she can modify the lesson plan that can accommodate the ELL students, and make a game about the lesson. So the ELL students will push themselves to win and the same time learn the lesson. Group also the students, group them with some ELL students in each group.
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