JavaScript is required to access this page. Please enable JavaScript in your browser.

ELA
ELA
Education Leaders
Education Leaders
Activities

Sentence Fluency Activities for Newcomer ELs

ELA

Sentence-level content-integrated writing strategies to support emerging and newcomer multilingual learners in simultaneously developing sentence fluency, content knowledge, and analytical thinking

Read and download your free copy:

Complete the form below to view this recording:

I am a... (select all that apply)
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.

Very often, writing instruction for multilingual learners is overly focused on precision and accuracy instead of meaning. Furthermore, the use of sentence frames and starters, when not integrated with content that multilingual learners are learning, do not support students with expressing increasingly complex ideas.

The following strategies should be used when evidence from student work suggests that students are struggling with sentence fluency in academic and disciplinary writing. They can be used across content areas and should be designed to target content and academic concepts, as well as Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary, that multilingual learners are learning in subject area instruction.

The strategies can be rolled out over time to progressively build students’ language and writing skills. Home language should be leveraged as well to support students in the use of these strategies, or tasks can be provided in home language entirely.

Featuring
No items found.

Read and download your free copy:

Complete the form below to view this recording:

I am a (select all that apply)
Watch Recording
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
No items found.
Activities

Sentence Fluency Activities for Newcomer ELs

ELA

Sentence-level content-integrated writing strategies to support emerging and newcomer multilingual learners in simultaneously developing sentence fluency, content knowledge, and analytical thinking

Download Resource
ELA

Very often, writing instruction for multilingual learners is overly focused on precision and accuracy instead of meaning. Furthermore, the use of sentence frames and starters, when not integrated with content that multilingual learners are learning, do not support students with expressing increasingly complex ideas.

The following strategies should be used when evidence from student work suggests that students are struggling with sentence fluency in academic and disciplinary writing. They can be used across content areas and should be designed to target content and academic concepts, as well as Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary, that multilingual learners are learning in subject area instruction.

The strategies can be rolled out over time to progressively build students’ language and writing skills. Home language should be leveraged as well to support students in the use of these strategies, or tasks can be provided in home language entirely.

Content Focus
ELA
Grades
K
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
No items found.
Featuring
No items found.

Related Webinars

No items found.