Multilingual learners

Use WIDA Can Do Descriptors to help you understand and support your emerging bilingual students through differentiated lessons.

Learn strategies for supporting your multilingual learners in the mainstream classroom. English Language Learns (ELLs) and students MLs benefit from high quality insturction and a welcoming classroom environment. There are also specific langauge strategies that will help these students succeed.

Last year this article was shared and greatly loved. This year, I'm adding to it to include one additional support. Multilingual learners count on us to provide high-quality, comprehensible, and...

by Valentina Gonzalez The quality and quantity of preservice instruction in teaching multilingual learners vary, leaving many teachers feeling inadequately prepared. And even those who did re…

When you are teaching writing to multilingual learners, what do you focus on? This is a big question with many components. I think of writing as being organized in two main categories: mechanics and ideas. Some students have many ideas to write about and enjoy free writing. For many MLs this can be challenging. One

This article was originally posted on 2-25-2017 and has been updated on 9-17-2020 to include information relevant to distance learning. “A picture is worth a thousand words" or so we’ve heard....

Explore effective scaffolding strategies for multilingual learners across different proficiency levels. Discover practical techniques to foster inclusive classrooms and support diverse student needs.

Many of us are language specialists, but some of us are not multilingual educators. However, both language specialists and multilingual educators serve under the same banner: to boost achievement for multilingual students.