Secondary ELD Newsletter for March 19, 2024

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Try This Strategy! Reciprocal Teaching

When your students are reading a complex text, try Reciprocal Teaching. Students read texts in smaller chunks and stop to talk at pre-determined places. Each student has a role in the discussion: questioner, clarifier, predictor, and summarizer.

• To download a graphic organizer, get ideas, and learn about how to differentiate for your students, sign in to Ellevation and go to the Reciprocal Teaching strategy.

Journal Prompt Ideas

Looking for something interesting for your students to journal about? Try one of these fun writing prompts:

• Provide students with a strange or interesting photo and have them write about it (National Geographic pictures of the year or New York Times pictures of the week are great places to start)
• Show students an interesting news headline and have them write the story (google “Weird News” for inspiration)
• Have students write the story of a dream (you can give them a beginning or let them make it up completely)

Curriculum Corner: Additional Unit Vocabulary

Each unit in Get Ready has a list of additional vocabulary words that you can download and share with your students. This would be great for a word of the day, a station activity, or word wall! Find the list under Resources > Additional Vocabulary Lists.

Announcements

Our next ELD Professional Development meeting will be on Wednesday, March 27. Please request your sub now if you haven’t already.