Resources

"Vocabulary in Context" is a teaching strategy that focuses on helping students learn new words by using them in meaningful sentences and activities. By modeling how to infer word meanings from context and incorporating vocabulary into daily lessons, teachers can significantly improve students' language comprehension and academic success.

The "Structured Literacy: Key Points for New York Educators" presentation underscores the significance of explicit, systematic instruction in reading education. It details the core components of structured literacy, highlights its benefits, and offers practical implementation strategies to enhance literacy outcomes for all students.

The February 2024 Focus Bulletin from the University of Wisconsin-Madison explores the topic of expanding reading instruction with multilingual learners. The bulletin highlights the need for educators to consider the unique needs and assets of multilingual learners in their literacy programs and approaches.

The document "Selecting and Using Academic Vocabulary in Instruction" provides practical strategies and activities to enhance vocabulary instruction for all students, with specific additional supports for ELLs. It emphasizes the importance of selecting appropriate vocabulary words for in-depth instruction to ensure comprehension and retention, leveraging students' home languages where applicable.

Provides an overview of the instructional strategies that facilitate learning across content areas. It emphasizes the importance of literacy-related strategies in helping students acquire and retain content knowledge and abilities. The strategies are designed for use by all content area teachers and can be implemented with students in Grades 4-12.

The document "Early Literacy for Multilingual Learners: Cross-Cutting Ideas" emphasizes culturally responsive teaching, oral language development, and family engagement as critical components of literacy instruction for multilingual learners. It advocates for integrated language and literacy instruction and the use of formative assessments to tailor support for students.