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What a week it has been y'all! I can't believe how quickly these weeks fly by. This week I changed things up in Writer's Workshop a bit. Some of my kiddos are still struggling with writing a sentence that makes sense and I was racking my brain for ways to help them become confident writers. I thought back to my days as a student teacher in California and what my absolutely a-mazing master teacher used to teach her English Language Learners writing. She used the "Farmer in the Dell" sentence…

Weather/season anchor chart. This input chart uses colors and pictures to help students differentiate between seasons and weather. It uses GLAD strategies and is great for bilingual classrooms, ESL/ELD, and students with special needs

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Professional Development for Language Acquisition and Literacy | Be GLAD

Reaching Goals & Implementing Strategies in ELL classrooms | Read how Sherman Oaks, a Spanish Dual Immersion school in San Jose, uses CCD charts and other visuals to increase academic achievement and instructional best practices in ELL classrooms

another of the GLAD strategies that I am using in my class. From this we make new songs each day and they write their own leaf poems -- to be seen soon!!

GLAD Strategy: Cooperative Strip Paragraph ​ What is the cooperative strip paragraph? The Cooperative Strip Paragraph is by far one of my favorite GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Design)...

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