ELL Strategies Worksheet

Instructions: As your peers present their strategies, complete the chart with the information that is most relevant to you for each
strategy.

Name of strategy Purpose Grouping Teacher role Student role In my class

K.W.L Chart To introduce students & get them Whole Group To engage students. To To already think of the Use before beginning a unit.
rolling on a subject/topic. informally assess where topic. To listen and
students are. engage.

Individual
Sorting To facilitate & lead to To sort vocabulary high To give synonyms and understanding to
To have students’ sort. To Small Group correct organization. & low frequency new vocabulary.
Activities/Ideas demonstrate thinking. Identify the practice. words.
Model.
Whole Group

Vocabulary Role Small Group To facilitate. To use vocabulary During reading a book.
To make connections between past during the activity.
Play experiences to vocabulary.
Whole Group

Manipulatives
To support language understanding.
To support and demonstrate
vocabulary. To represent subjects such
as math and math concepts. To move
and manipulate objects in order to
reach a goal.
Individual Identify the concept to Must pay attention to May be used in any subjects but seen
be taught. Demonstrate expectations of use. more in math. Ex: Physical Venn
and explain the concept Must record any new Diagrams using objects represented in a
Pairs using manipulatives. vocabulary that is being story. Ex: Skeleton model to learn about
Provide guidance introduced. Must ask bones and parts of the body. Ex:
practice. Give students questions. Must use Battleship boats and real-life battle
Small Group time for additional manipulatives safely. board for ware studies.
practice. Review and Must participate during
celebrate. guided and free
Whole Group practice.

Checking for Provides knowledge to the teacher on Individual Plan format. Watch for To show their To give and ask for thumbs-ups or
what an individual student student’s body understandings. downs. Use after or during explanation.
Understanding understanding. language. Positive
Whole Group actions.
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Instructions: As your peers present their strategies, complete the chart with the information that is most relevant to you for each
strategy.

Multimedia To incorporate different types of Individual To model & introduce To show what they’ve Greatly used for research projects,
media into classroom instruction. A the concept. To add learned. To apply their writing/typing, and can be applied to any
Presentation way to present & gather all of the media that is knowledge. subject.
information. Pairs appropriate.

Small Group

Reporting Back To support students in bridging the Individual To prepare the students K-3 – Verbally describe Can be used as a follow up after any
gap between spoken written language. for an active learning the steps taken to active-learning experience. Students
experience. List and complete an describe their experience using
Pairs review the steps. assignment. Listen & vocabulary that is connected with the
Verbalize the action. add to a peer’s report experience so that classmates have a
Allow for verbal on an activity. Verbally clear understanding of the materials and
Small Group
practice. Celebrate the describe actions and sequence of actions. After instruction,
Whole Group achievements. Review contributions of each they can write reporting back
the vocabulary word. member of a group summaries. Language arts: reporting
Write the reports. activity. back on research for a research topic.
Assess students’
progress and
understanding. Evaluate
your use of reporting
back.

Pairs
Closed (?) Cloze? To assess reading comprehension To model & introduce. To participate and To teach vocabulary terms.
through analyzing the word choice Small Group Group students for collaborate.
Activities students make. instruction.

Individual
Preview & Review Having students look at the lesson & To plan and gather To engage and look To introduce vocabulary and historical
then recap the lesson in their home Small Group materials. Introduce key over the lesson before it settings. Before going on a field trip.
language. To ensure content vocabulary and is taught. Math, Science, Reading.
understanding. To familiarize students concepts. Teach the
with the material in a language they lesson. Review

Instructions: As your peers present their strategies, complete the chart with the information that is most relevant to you for each
strategy.
are most familiar with.
Repeating Reading Traditionally, repeated reading
involves using familiar text that is at
an independent reading level, students
reread a passage 3-4 times. Students
are asked to read for a given amount
of time and their fluency is measured
by hoe far they can read in that given
time. They are asked to reread the
same passage periodically to
document their growing fluency.
Students can write a reader’s theater
script based on a book they’ve read.
In the process of writing the script
students increase their understanding
as well as interpretation of the
reading.
Repeated readings, writing scripts, and
performing them supports
understanding and fluency
Research shows that writing and
rereading reader's theater scripts is
especially powerful in supporting
reading fluency in English language
learners
ELL Strategies Worksheet
vocabulary and
concepts. Provide
additional practice.
Assess and document
students’ reactions.
Small Group
Select a book that is Write the script using ELLs at the speech emergent level may
Whole Group interesting to both shared writing. Reread. be reluctant to speak in front of their
teacher and student. class. Repeated reading in readers’
Matching to students’ theater allows students to become more
English language confident and fluent in their English-
development level and speaking skills.
age.
Working in a group allows the
Read the book aloud opportunity for students to internalize,
discuss and clarify the meaning of text.
Demonstrate the format
for writing a script: Students can experience repeated
Show students how readings of text, explore characterization
dialogue is written. and expression, discover and illuminate
new vocabulary, and participate in event
Practice reading the sequencing through reader's theater
script aloud. Encourage presentations and script writing to
students to practice strengthen reading, oral fluency, and
reading the script with comprehension.
expression and fluency
before they "perform" it
for the class or for other
classes
Have students read the
script with expression
and fluency but not
memorizing lines.
English learners are
 ELL Strategies Worksheet
Instructions: As your peers present their strategies, complete the chart with the information that is most relevant to you for each
strategy.

Enhances vocabulary development often reluctant to

perform for their class
but are eager to perform
for younger students.

Assess the students’

comprehension, reading
fluency, and expression
as they read, and plan
additional practice for
students that need it

Individual
Story Reenactment Deepens comprehension & builds Provide materials. Retell story in Encourage students to use “book
spoken and reading fluency. Pairs Encourage its usage. sequence. Gather & language” & vocabulary.
Listen & assess make the props.
Small Group retellings of stories. Collaborate.

Pairs
Group Pair Share Model each step. Share thinking. Retelling stories.
Participate in
discussion. Read the
text.

Pairs
Communication To give students an interactive way to Explain concept &
learn and practice strategies to Small Group model the game.
Games communicate.

Graphic Organizers Comprehension by enabling readers to Individual Identifying

label aspects of a text. teaching/learning
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Instructions: As your peers present their strategies, complete the chart with the information that is most relevant to you for each
strategy.

Pairs purpose. Model.

Discuss connections.

Small Group

Whole Group
Small Group
Realia Strategies Allow students to apply real-life & Identify opportunities Participate and Blend into lessons (implement).
background knowledge to vocabulary. Whole Group to use this. Collect & collaborate.
organize them. Assess
vocabulary.

Culture Studies Build class community while
integrating lessons/topics/subjects.
Gives students a chance to guide their
own learning.
Pairs
To design & assign the Participate and respect Use family pictures create timelines.
Small Group culture study project. other cultures. Compare & contrast cultures.
Whole Group

Whole Group
Modeled Talk To demonstrate while you talk. Identify your lesson. Listen and follow Happens every day in all content areas.
Provide examples of thinking for Practice your modeled directions. We do it subliminally, it’s just a matter
learners to follow. Reinforce talk. Design a visual of of creating the visual aids to go without
instructions and expectations so directions. Review the it.
students best understand what they are steps to be taken.
supposed to be doing. Observe the students.

Individual
Collecting and To help children develop better Act out words/ add Active listening. Keep Students can create a story using a word
speaking and writing vocab. It also Pairs actions to them. track of their bank of vocab words. Using vocab
Processing Words supports their understanding of the Adjusting word study to vocabulary in a journal. journal for students to write down new
nuances of words that have the same Small Group their developmental Participate in vocab in. Read aloud. Any subject!
or similar meanings. level. Making sure that discussions.
Whole Group words are taught with
context and
supported…
 ELL Strategies Worksheet
Instructions: As your peers present their strategies, complete the chart with the information that is most relevant to you for each
strategy.

Whole Group
Predictable Routines Structuring a positive and nurturing Set up your room. Be engaged and Procedure/transition songs. Write out
environment in the classroom. Establish routines. participate in the daily schedule on the board. Provide
and Signals Reducing anxiety of ELL students. Model routines. signals and routines. images to go with motions.
Having patterns, routines, and signal Contextualize Look around the room
helps students relax and not worry directions. Evaluate for visual ques from the
about the following sequence of your use of routines and teacher or on the wall.
events of the day. procedures periodically Ask for help when
to identify areas that needed.
can be improved.

Whole Group
Micro selection Locate key words in sentences and/or Introduce. Model. Overarchingly Breaking down math word problems.
the meaning in a passage. More Partner Gradually release participate. First
retention for main ideas. responsibility. Discuss. identify key words of a Students struggling with retelling.
Assess. sentence. Paraphrase.
Find meaning of words
they don’t understand.
Find main ideas in short
passages.