How to Use Halloween/ Fall ESL Activities to Build WIDA Language Skills All Month Long October is one of those months when multilingual learners have so many things to talk about. Pumpkins, costumes, spooky houses, animals, characters, feelings, Ha…

Thanksgiving Vocabulary Strategies for ELLs: Building Social Studies Content Through Games I sometimes hear ELL teachers complaining that their students aren’t picking up vocabulary—especially content-area vocabulary—quickly enough. They often say,…

Benefits of Teaching Thematically and Integrating Content Areas in the ELL Classroom One of the joys—and challenges—of teaching English Language Learners is the incredible variety of experiences and abilities they bring into the classroom. In a sing…

The Sentence-Building Challenge for ESL Students For many ELL students—especially in grades K–8—grammar and vocabulary can feel abstract, disconnected, and confusing. Even general education students in grades K–2 often struggle to put words in the c…