{"id":7712,"date":"2023-01-01T11:58:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eltweekly.com\/?p=7712"},"modified":"2023-01-01T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:58:01","slug":"6-essential-strategies-for-teaching-english-language-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=7712","title":{"rendered":"6 Essential Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/profile\/emily-kaplan\">Emily Kaplan<\/a>&#8216;s article from Edutopia.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrationpolicy.org\/programs\/data-hub\/charts\/english-learners-k-12-education-state\">10 percent<\/a>&nbsp;of students in the United States\u2014more than 4.8 million kids\u2014are English language learners (ELLs), and the number is on the rise. Though these students do not learn differently than their native-English-speaking peers, they do have particular educational needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To learn about these needs\u2014and best practices for addressing them\u2014I interviewed a range of educators and observers, including Larry Ferlazzo, an educator and author of&nbsp;<em>The ESL\/ELL Teacher\u2019s Survival Guide<\/em>; longtime teachers of English as a second language (ESL) Emily Francis and Tan Huynh; and the journalist Helen Thorpe, who spent a year observing a teacher who works with ELLs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group emphasized that the strategies listed here, which include both big-picture mindsets and nitty-gritty teaching tactics, can be incorporated into all classrooms, benefiting both native English speakers and ELLs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/article\/6-essential-strategies-teaching-english-language-learners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Emily Kaplan&#8216;s article from Edutopia. Over&nbsp;10 percent&nbsp;of students in the United States\u2014more than 4.8 million kids\u2014are English language learners (ELLs), and the number is on the rise. Though these students do not learn differently than their native-English-speaking peers, they do have particular educational needs. 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