5th Annual Dual Language Symposium
NABE 2023 Conference
Join us at the NABE 2023 Conference in Portland, OR! Click here for more information
La Cosecha 2022 Conference
Join us at the La Cosecha 2022 Conference in Houston, TX! Come visit us at our exibitor booth in the Santa Fe Convention Center (#20) and online! Click here for more information
NABE 51st Annual Conference 2022
PLEASE JOIN US AT THE NEW YORK HILTON MIDTOWN FOR THE 51ST ANNUAL NABE CONFERENCE! CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION: NABE 51st Annual Conference 2022
Top 5 Ways to Spend Down F18 Budget & Grow Your Dual Language and Bilingual Programs:
In the next few weeks, schools and districts across the country are in the midst of a crazy time between now and June 30th called “spend down”, it is the last few months of the year where they are forced to either spend their remaining budgets, or risk losing that money altogether. For many schools, this means […]
What Makes an Exemplary Curriculum for Language Learners?
The success of linguistically and culturally diverse students has become a shared goal for educators and policy-makers across both political lines because there are now over 5 million students from homes where a language other than English is spoken. The impact of this fast paced-growth began with grants, funding sources, and other program level compliances. […]
Part 5: Teaching Cognates to English Learner Students
When it comes to English Language Learners, it is critical that students have the opportunity to see their native language as an asset. Particularly for native Spanish speakers, a way to do that is to help them understand the sheer amount of academic vocabulary they have at their disposal through the use of cognates. […]
Part 4: Prefixes and Suffixes
Over the last few weeks, we have looked at the different strategies for improving students’ ability to acquire new vocabulary words. Teaching prefixes and suffixes (together known as affixes) is just one more strategy teachers can provide to students in order to help them infer the meaning of unknown words that are encountered as they […]
Part 3 – Strategies for Learning Unknown Words
Yes, students need access to a large bank of words in order to be successful readers. But they also need to be able to process and analyze new words for meaning as they encounter them. Without this skill, readers miss important parts of text that hinders their ability to make meaning. These “word learning strategies” […]
Vocabulary Instruction: Part 2/6 Word Play for Teachers of English Learners and Struggling Students
In part 1 of this series we talked about word consciousness being whether students grasped that words are the currency of the English language and whether they “bought into” reason why words are essential. We offered a number of strategies to achieve this: from having a word-rich environment, time for metacognition, student choice, and student […]