ELD ACRONYMS
What does ELD stand for?
English Language Development
What specific language supports do ELD teachers provide?
Our role is to provide academic and social language support.
Have the student SHOW vs...
TELL you if limited English proficiency
ELD is an Intervention. True or False?
ELD is not an intervention. The term “intervention” would suggest that a student is in need of remediation or “fixing”. Our ELD students have just not had the same opportunities to be exposed to English as monolingual English speaking peers would.
Who is our rock-star ELD TA here at TR?
Brad Pfaff
What does ELL/MLL stand for?
English Language Learner/Multilanguage Learner
What "good practice" is easiest to implement in ALL classrooms to help an ELD and ALL students follow classroom expectations/schedule?
VISUALS
Simplify....
instructions/directions
Integrate diverse__________reading experiences.
cultural.
What ELD teacher works with 1st and 3rd grade?
Sarah Longnecker
What does LEP stand for?
Limited English Proficiency
If a student has good social language, you can assume their academic language is just as good. True or False?
False.
Front load _________________with visuals before difficult content.
vocabulary
Use both verbal and _________________,
non verbal cues in your classroom.
This ELD teacher got her TESOL masters degree in 2023.
Mrs. Talbert
What is the name of the translation tool you can use for phone or video calls?
Propoio.
How long does it typically take for a student to master both social and academic language? 1, 7 or 15 years?
5-7 years, 7.
Allowing writing in 1st language and translanguaging is o.k. for newcomer/beginning students. True or false?
True!
Offer sentence _________and sentence __________.
frames, starters.
ELD teachers must speak another language to teach ELD? True or false?
False.
What is the WIDA Access?
What are the 4 domains we focus on teaching in ELD?
Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
What is the #1 thing you can provide your ELD students?
Celebrate their bi-multilingualism as a gift and know language proficiency is not tied to content mastery.
Practical strategies for teaching ELL's include model, _________, _______.
model, model and model some more!
What languages can Mrs. Broughton speak?
English, Spanish and Japanese!