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2nd Edition

The ELL Teacher's Toolbox 2.0: Hundreds of Practical Ideas to Support Your Students

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Larry Ferlazzo, Katie Hull Sypnieski

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  • The ELL Teacher's Toolbox 2.0

592 pages
2025
ISBN: 9781394171675

Set your English language learners up for success with this effective resource.

The ELL Teacher's Toolbox 2.0 is a valuable, updated resource that teachers of English Language Learners (ELLs) can use to improve student outcomes. With hundreds of innovative strategies and activities to bring to your classroom, this book can be used with learners of all levels and in any instructional setting. This revised edition provides the latest enhancements to the instructional tools—along with 16 new chapters that you can add to your teaching repertoire. New content includes coverage of artificial intelligence, online learning environments, and differentiated instruction. Graphics and visuals make it easy to understand and adapt the content to your unique teaching situation.

Written by proven authors in the field, the book is divided into two main sections: Reading/Writing and Speaking/Listening. Each of those sections includes “Top Ten” favourites and between 40 and 70 strategies that can be used as part of multiple lessons and across content areas.

  • Contains 60% new strategies
  • Features ready-to-use lesson plans
  • Includes reproducible handouts
  • Offers technology integration ideas

For the growing number of ELLs in public schools, effective ELL instruction can mean the difference between long-term academic success and continued struggling. In this book, you'll find countless practical ideas to add to your teaching arsenal—or for training and coaching ELL teachers—so you can support your students on their journey.

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Contents

Table of Contents

About the Authors xxi

Acknowledgments xxiii

Introduction 1

I Reading and Writing 3

  1. Independent Reading 5
  2. Text Engineering 15
  3. Graphic Organizers 22
  4. Vocabulary 39
  5. Activating Prior Knowledge 59
  6. Sequencing 68
  7. Clozes 80
  8. Language Experience Approach (LEA) 93
  9. Jigsaw 9
  10. Reading Comprehension 113
  11. Inductive Learning 133
  12. Retrieval Practice 150
  13. Teaching Grammar 158
  14. Writing Frames and Writing Structures 165
  15. Quoting, Summarizing, and Paraphrasing 183
  16. Choice Boards/Learning Menus 193
  17. Using Photos or Other Images in Reading and Writing 199
  18. QSSSA 214
  19. Error Correction Strategies 228
  20. Revision 237
  21. Problem-Posing 244
  22. Project-Based Learning and Problem-Based Learning 251
  23. Learning Games for Reading and Writing 263

II Speaking and Listening 277

24.Dictation 279

25. Conversation Practice 285

26. Total Physical Response (TPR) 296

27. Music 30

28. Using Photos or Other Images in Speaking and Listening 315

29. Video 320

30. Listening 333

31. Learning Games for Speaking and Listening 342

III Additional Key Strategies 351

32. Differentiation for ELLs in Content Classes with English-Proficient Students 353

33. Supporting ELL Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFEs) 365

34. Working with Long-Term ELLs 371

35. Multilevel Classes 375

36. Culturally Responsive Teaching 383

37. Social Emotional Learning 391

38. Motivation 402

39. Peer Teaching and Learning 417

40. Co-Teaching 437

41. Working with Parents and Guardians 442

42. Translanguaging 449

43. Beginning the School Year 453

44. Ending the School Year 465

45. Beginning and Ending of Class 482

46. Zero-Prep Activities 492

47. Using Technology 498

48. Interactive Word Walls 513

49. Assessment 526

50. Accelerated Learning 538

Appendix: English Language Arts Standards--Anchor Standards 548

Index 553


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