English Language Learners
Quality Education for ELLs/ MLLs: Why We Need It and How We Can Achieve It
Resources and Strategies for Identifying and Supporting English Learners with Learning Disabilities
Scaffolding Writing Through the "Teaching and Learning Cycle"
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What California Teachers Are Saying About Their Instructional Materials for English Learner Students
This brief summarizes survey data about California teachers’ views of and experience with their instructional materials in relation to their English learners.
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How to Engage Dual Language Elementary Students with High-Quality Texts
This webinar builds on the webinar, How to Prepare Dual Language Elementary Students to Engage in Conversations Around Central Ideas with High-Quality Texts, and introduces dual language educators to teaching and learning approaches and processes that support elementary students’ abilities to access and engage in disciplinary literacy practices with high-quality, complex texts.
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How to Prepare Dual Language Elementary Students to Engage in Conversations Around Central Ideas with High-Quality Texts
This archived webinar highlights the importance of surfacing students’ prior experiences and activating their prior knowledge in dual language classrooms.
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Analyzing Texts in Grades 3-5: The Development of Oral Language in a Distance Learning Environment
In this archived webinar, upper elementary teachers will learn how to support 3-5 grade students’ oral language development by asking questions that promote student analysis of a text’s key themes in distance learning environments.
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Supporting Secondary English Learners in the Social Studies Classroom in a Distance Learning Environment
This archived webinar helps deepen teachers’ understanding of the development of oral language for English Learners and provides some strategies that can be applied to distance learning environments.
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Elementary Educators: Communicating with Families of English Learners During Distance Learning
In this archived webinar, learn how educators can communicate regularly with families of young English Learners to increase student success.
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Linking, Describing, and Critiquing in Secondary Mathematics: Supporting English Learners’ Oral Language Development
In this archived webinar, learn how to design content-specific learning experiences that promote oral language development in distance learning environments.
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Effective Questioning in Grades K-2: The Development of Oral Language in a Distance Learning Environment
In this archived webinar, teachers will learn effective questioning techniques that can be used to design activities for distance learning environments that promote text-based discussions.
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Communicating with Families of Newcomer English Learners During Distance Learning
The presenters in this archived webinar offer practitioners ideas for how to keep parents, guardians, and other family members engaged in supporting their students’ learning trajectory at home.
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Lesson Planning for English Learners in Distance Learning Environments: Elementary Educators
In this archived webinar, the presenters demonstrate how elementary educators can adapt and implement lessons in a distance learning environment to support English Learners and language development.
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Lesson Planning for English Learners in Distance Learning Environments: Secondary Educators
In this archived webinar, the presenters demonstrate how secondary educators can adapt and implement lessons in a distance learning environment that promote rigor and high levels of support.
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How to Support Young English Learners at Home with Language and Literacy Development
In this archived webinar, teachers, coaches, and administrators receive guidance, resources, and activities that can be shared with families and caregivers to strengthen language and literacy development with English Learners at home.
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Supporting English Learners During School Closures Considerations for Designing Distance Learning Experiences
While a fair amount is known about effective instructional practices for English learners, less is known about how these practices might look in a distance learning environment. This brief is designed to help educators make this critical shift.
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Meeting the Learning Needs of Historically Underserved Students During and After California School Closures
Written primarily for district and school leaders, this paper, produced by WestEd as part of a collection of Crisis Response Resources, calls on educators to keep a sharp focus on meeting the needs of historically undeserved students, both during this initial period of distance learning and as leaders plan for an uncertain future in school year 2020/21.
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Strategies to Identify and Support English Learners With Learning Disabilities
This REL West brief presents a summary of research and practice and compares 15 state guidance manuals and other resources for policymakers, administrators, and practitioners.
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