Use WIDA Can Do Descriptors to help you understand and support your emerging bilingual students through differentiated lessons.

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Last year this article was shared and greatly loved. This year, I'm adding to it to include one additional support. Multilingual learners count on us to provide high-quality, comprehensible, and...

by Valentina Gonzalez The quality and quantity of preservice instruction in teaching multilingual learners vary, leaving many teachers feeling inadequately prepared. And even those who did re…

When you are teaching writing to multilingual learners, what do you focus on? This is a big question with many components. I think of writing as being organized in two main categories: mechanics and ideas. Some students have many ideas to write about and enjoy free writing. For many MLs this can be challenging. One

by Valentina Gonzalez Effective anchor charts can leave a lasting imprint of a lesson, helping multilingual learners while they work independently. Multilingual learners can refer to anchor charts …

Being an international teacher brings on a lot of questions, mostly about language and learning English - what languages do my students speak and how can I teach them if they don't know English (yet). Ultimately, the confusion is about how we do it. However, it's not only international teachers that are adapting their instructional practices - this is today's classroom (and I love it)! Multilingualism, translanguaging, translating and scaffolding - it's all in a teacher's day!

Language specialist Tan Huynh shares how teachers can support students’ multilingualism by maximizing translanguaging, offering learning in context, and integrating all language domains. ELL ML ESL

Learn strategies for supporting your multilingual learners in the mainstream classroom. English Language Learns (ELLs) and students MLs benefit from high quality insturction and a welcoming classroom environment. There are also specific langauge strategies that will help these students succeed.