About this Resource
Language Acquisition through Content Instruction: Every day, every class counts in the quest to acquire language proficiency: all teachers are teachers of EAL learners. Teachers need various strategies to support EAL learners at different proficiency levels (beginning to advanced) in inclusive learning environments. In this session, participants will learn how to:
- use information gleaned through assessing EAL learners’ proficiency levels on the benchmarks to inform instruction
identify vocabulary and language structures related to the curricular content they are teaching - plan for explicit teaching language within their instructional cycle
- select from a variety of high-impact vocabulary instruction strategies to explicitly teach language in context
- use sentence starters, sentence frames, and mentor texts to support spoken and written production of language in context