50 Strategies for Teaching ELLs (Herrey & Jordan, 2012)
Strategies to Encourage Active Involvement
- Predictable Routines and Signals - Reducing Anxiety
- Preview/Review - Building Vocabulary and Concepts to Support Understanding
- Visual Scaffolding - Providing Language Support Through Visual Images
- Small Groups and Partners - Interactions to Enhance Instruction
- Learning Centers - Extending Learning Through Hands-On Practice
- Cooperative Learning - Group Interactions to Accomplish Goals
- Scripting - Practicing Verbal Interactions
- Multiple Intelligences Strategies - Teaching and Testing to Student-Preferred Learning Modes
- Culture Studies - Learning Research Skills and Valuing Home Cultures in One Project
- Manipulatives Strategy - Using Objects to Connect Concepts
- KWL and Data Charts - Researching and Organizing Information
Strategies for Language Development
- Total Physical Response (TPR) - Integrating Movement into Language Acquisition
- Realia Strategies - Connecting Language Acquisition to Real World
- Modeled Talk - Demonstrating as You Talk
- Vocabulary Role-Play - Building Vocabulary Through Dramatization
- Leveled Questions - Adjusting Questioning Strategies to the Language Levels of Students
- Collecting and Processing Word - Making Vocabulary Your Own
- Reporting Back - Verbal Practice in Curriculum Connections
- Story Reenactment - Making Stories Come to Life!
- Language Focus Lesson - Support English Vocabulary and Structure Acquisition
- Language Framework Planning - Supporting Academic Language and Content Acquisition
- Syntax Surgery - Visually Manipulating English Grammar
- Communication Games - Creating Opportunities for Verbal Interaction
Strategies for Literacy Development
- Moving into Reading - Using Multiple Strategies to Foster Comprehension
- Sorting Activities - Organizing Information into Categories
- Read-Aloud Plus - Using Strategies to Support Comprehension
- Guided Reading - Providing Individual Support within a Group Setting
- Scaffolding English Writing - Matching Instruction to Language Development
- Imaging - Creating Visual Pictures to Support Understanding
- Cohesion Links - Understanding the Glue That Holds Paragraphs Together
- Bilingual Books and Labels - Supporting Biliteracy Awareness
- Read, Pair, Shaire - Working with a Partner to Negotiate Meaning
- Repetition and Innovation - Exploring a Book to Deepen Comprehension
- Cloze - Using Context to Create Meaning
- Free Voluntary Reading - Nothing Helps Reading Like Reading
- Repeated Reading - Using Script Writing and Reader's Theatre
Strategies for Content Instruction
- Advance Organizers - Getting the Mind in Gear for Instruction
- Learning Strategy Instruction - Acquiring Self-Help Skills
- Integrated Curriculum Projects - Using Authentic Project to Integrate Content Knowledge
- Attribute Charting - Organizing Information to Support Understanding
- Dictoglos - Improving Listening and Communication Sills
- GIST - Exploring Tough Text
- Tutorials - Closing the Achievement Gap
- Graphic Organizers - Visually Representing Ideas, Text, and Connections
- Microselection - Finding Key Words and Main Ideas
- Collaborative Reading - What to Do when They Can't Read the Textbook
Technology Strategies for English Learners
- Multimedia Presentations - Oral Reports for the New Millennium
- Interactive Comprehension Building - Using Technology to Build Background Knowledge
- Wiki Building - Using Wikis to Support Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary Development
- Handheld Computers and Smartphones - Applications In and Out of the Classroom