9E) Multiple opportunities to engage with content
Provide multiple opportunities for children to engage with and practice content area vocabulary and concepts.
Video: Operations
These short videos are examples of teachers using explicit prompting to support children's thinking for mathematical operations in the PK classroom. In one clip the teacher uses both Spanish and English to ensure content understanding, and support the development of two languages.Read More
Website Article: Supporting Language and Math
This overview document describes the language learning opportunities for Multilingual learners in math instruction. It includes additional links to activities, handouts and resources that a teacher can use to simultaneously develop children's math and English language skills.Read More
Strategy Overview: How to Use Picture Books (with math)
This resource offers guidance on how to use picture books to develop not only language, but mathematical content learning for Multilingual Learners. It includes prompts for before, during and after reading, along with booklists for five different areas of math.Read More
Website Article: DLLs- Assessing Geometry & Spacial Relations
This article shines a light on the academic language that is often required for children to express their thinking about mathematical geometry and spacial relations. It offers some tips on how to scaffold and support Multilingual learners throughout geometry and spacial relations assessments.Read More
Website Article: DLLs and Math in PreK
An overview document shares important guidelines and tips for teaching math with Multilingual preschool students, including: importance of home languages, family connections, vocabulary and physical gestures. A short video of a class read-aloud showcases intentional teacher prompting and translanguaging practices with Multilingual learners.Read More
Video: Spacial Relations
This link includes a series of videos and activities designed to notice and discuss how one teacher introduces key concepts for students to engage with mathematical thinking around spacial relations in a read aloud. Key strategies for Multilingual learners are seen in the video, including the Describe, Draw, Describe strategy, gestures, inventional prompting, turn and talk and drawing to represent thinking.Read More
Video: Measurement & Data
These short videos are examples of teachers using explicit prompting to develop math vocabulary and thinking during a play-based time in the PK classroom, and circle time in elementary grades.Read More
Video: Counting
In this videoclip Gustavo counts and organizes colored block manipulatives during play-based activity time in the preschool classroom.Read More
Podcast: High Quality Instructional Materials as Equity for English Learners
This podcast covers some of the systematic issues in schools that keep Multilingual learners from adequately progressing. The discussion then shifts to specific supports and considerations for curriculum design that make grade-level content accessible for all learners.Read More
Video: Outdoor, Indoor & Family Inclusive Learning Environment—PK Bilingual
This video shows the power of thematic instruction and rich learning environments in a bilingual PreK classroom.Read More
Video: Standards for Mathematical Practices in Transitional Kindergarten
A teacher discusses how she integrates literacy and language instruction into a mathematical story problem using a "Secret Message" strategy.Read More
Video: Integrating ELD Instruction Using Text Reconstruction
This is a 2nd-grade lesson of the text reconstruction ELD strategy, designed to provide access and practice in both English and content instruction. This strategy encourages Multilingual Learners to communicate as they engage with informational text.Read More
Strategy Overview: Fractions, Factors, and Functions, Oh My! Are My ELs Attaching Meaning to Math Words?
This guide helps teachers plan meaningful activities to make math accessible, hands-on, build on students' prior knowledge, and be language-focused. In these resources, teachers can read about the dos and don'ts of math vocabulary instruction for Multilingual Learners.Read More
Guide: Don’t Underestimate the Power of Contexts in Math Curricula
This guide helps teachers assess whether the context of specific math tasks is accessible and familiar for Multilingual Learners. In these resources, teachers can read about the dos and don'ts of situating math instruction in a familiar context for Multilingual Learners.Read More
Strategy Overview: Anchor Charts for Synonyms – A Vocabulary Strategy
The use of anchor charts in the math classroom creates rich opportunities for teachers to collect, discuss, and practice vocabulary with Multilingual Learners.Read More
Strategy Overview: Amplify and Facilitate Student Learning about Language
Attention and practice in the language of math is a critical part of instruction for Multilingual Learners. In these resources, teachers can read about the dos and don'ts of math instruction for Multilingual Learners.Read More
Video: Model Curriculum for English Learners—Justice, Courage and Fairness (2nd grade)
In this video, a designated teacher for Multilingual Learners talks through her objectives for a fairness and justice lesson. The bridge lesson incorporates opportunities for Multilingual Learners to share their thinking and practice oral language in English. The content matches up to prior learning they have done in Spanish.Read More
Strategy Overview: Selecting and Using Academic Vocabulary in Instruction
This document reviews criteria for how to select academic vocabulary for instruction with Multilingual Learners and offers other supports for vocabulary instruction.Read More
Video: Draw & Label Strategy- 3rd grade
In this demonstration of the "Draw & Label" strategy, the teacher teaches academic and content vocabulary while drawing and creating a language resource for the Multilingual Learners in the class. This resource helps them engage with and practice content area vocabulary and concepts in multiple modalities.Read More
Video: Draw & Label Strategy- Kindergarten
In this demonstration of the "Draw & Label" strategy, the teacher teaches academic and content vocabulary while drawing and creating a language resource for the Multilingual Learners in the class. This resource helps them engage with and practice content area vocabulary and concepts in multiple modalities.Read More
Strategy Overview: Vocabulary in Context
This resource introduces teachers to all of the ways that vocabulary can be introduced, reinforced, and practiced across multiple lessons and activities. This helps Multilingual Learners learn key academic and content words in context.Read More
Strategy Overview: Graphic Organizers
A graphic organizer is a visual map or diagram that displays relationships between facts, concepts, or ideas. For Multilingual Learners, this kind of visual display of information can lessen cognitive load and support transfer of knowledge across languages.Read More
Strategy Overview: Draw, Tell, & Label
This resource describes how to implement the Draw, Tell, & Label strategy in classrooms with Multilingual Learners. This strategy provides multiple opportunities for children to engage with and practice content area vocabulary. This resource also includes guidance on building content understanding in the home language(s) and English.Read More
Strategy Overview: Content-Based Chants
Singing and chanting give children opportunities to practice using academic vocabulary in a group setting. Singing content-rich chants develops phonemic awareness and taps into musical, auditory, linguistic, intrapersonal, and bodily-kinesthetic knowledge, which helps the children retain information.Read More
Strategy Overview: Dialogic Read Aloud
This guide supports teachers in reading texts aloud and engaging learners in a discussion about them. Through planned activities before, after, and during the reading, children learn and internalize the practices that readers use, and develop skills of analytic talk.Read More
