Episode 51 - Teaching English Content - Here are 3 Ideas How To Make it Accessible to ELs

In today’s episode, I discuss academic connections in response to a question from one of my listeners about teaching English Content.Why is traditional English Language Arts content inferencing, finding metaphors and similes, and identifying literary elements, so difficult for English Learners? It is a higher order thinking skill that requires a deep understanding of the language and having background in it. The first thing to consider is that English Learners need to understand. I...