| Realia: These are real-life objects that enable students to make connections to their own lives. |
Using realia video; Using Realia ideas |
| Pictures: Photographs, illustrations, icons can provide visual support for content, vocabulary and can build background knowledge. Post pictures alongside vocabulary. |
Ferlazzo’s best of” photos in lessons |
| Amplify Text: Essential concepts, topic sentences, vocabulary, and summaries are highlighted, translated, paired with visuals, or chunked to make text more comprehensible. This ensures the rigor of the text is not lowered. |
Text engineering blog |
| Modeling: Demonstrate tasks and use of materials step by step. |
Steps for interactive modeling |
| Visuals in the Content Areas (math, social studies, etc): These can include models, graphs, charts, timelines, maps, props, and bulletin board displays. Visual cues can support auditory processing |
Article and video on use of visuals |
| 4 Corners Vocabulary: A vocabulary building strategy to help teachers preview, review or reinforce key words and concepts and to help MLLs become partners and independent learners in building academic language proficiency. |
Article Vocabulary games video |
| Vocabulary Cards: Students pick challenging words and craft cards with words- the drawing is made on the front of the card and a definition and sentence is written on the back. Share cards within teams, and swap with other groups |
Video and article on flash cards for MLLs |
| Guided Notes: Teachers create outlines with gaps for students to fill in key vocabulary and information during lectures or readings. This boosts engagement, offers study-ready notes, and aids vocabulary recognition. |
Guided notes resource from Teacher Toolkit |
| Cloze Activities: Teachers create sentences/paragraphs with missing keywords for students to fill using context clues. A WORD BANK can be added for extra support, helping students identify and use relevant words from the lesson/unit. |
Make a Cloze Activity |
| Translations: Offer material in home languages or provide translation support. |
MagicSchool.ai translator tool |
