Differentiation

Asking the Right Kind of Questions

Previously, I have written about using visuals and technology as support in the EL classroom. In this post, I will be exploring how teachers can create questions to check for reading comprehension for various English proficiency levels. In an immersion classroom, ideally English language learners and native speakers of English should be working on the…

Technology in the ESL classroom

Previously, I have written about how teachers can support comprehension by incorporating visuals in their curriculum. In this post, I explain how technology can be used as a powerful resource to support learners in the second language classroom. As a language teacher, I often find that technology is just what I need to perk up…

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

In this post, I explore how teachers can easily incorporate visuals into their curriculum to support English language learners in the classroom. You could imagine that learning a foreign language is a daunting task. This is particularly true when students find themselves in an immersion classroom not speaking the primary language. Unless language teachers make…