Do you have EL students in your classroom? Even if you don't, many of the strategies in Everyday Mathematics 4 will be helpful to any student in your classroom. Strategies such as Three Reads, Close Reading, Notice and Wonder, the use of sentence frames and visual vocabulary cards are great strategies to incorporate in your daily EM4 lessons. Be sure to reference the Differentiation for ELs resource book which is located in ConnectED ebooks.
Check out this short video clip of a planning session in which the coaches and classroom teachers discuss several useful strategies for meeting the needs of EL students. This discussion focuses on using vocabulary visuals and the Three Reads Strategy to address the Math Message in a Grade 2 lesson on subtracting through 10. Check it out!
This second clip shows a portion of this planned lesson. Note the way the math coach addressed the vocabulary, the gestures that the EL teacher utilized when working with the emergent student, as well as the Three Reads Strategy.
We even incorporated the native language into this lesson. When we used native language for the number 10, the Spanish and Haitian Creole speaking students' were excited and felt included in the lesson. Recent research has indicated that careful and strategic use of a student's primary language can help English language learning, particularly in understanding math vocabulary, instructions, and in developing teacher-student and student-student relationships. Acknowledging, celebrating, and encouraging the use of our students' home languages is just one of the many ways we can look at them through the lens of assets, and not deficits, that our students bring to the learning process (Ferlazzo, 2017).
Your math coach would be glad to help you to incorporate these strategies and many others into your daily math lessons.
In addition to working with your coach, there are some useful planning tools that can be found on our Differentiation for ELL webpage. These resources can help guide you in thinking about unit and lesson planning.
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