Language instruction is continuously evolving to better support English language learners (ELL’s). This Spotlight will help you identify potential learning gaps heightened by the pandemic; learn best practices for strengthening
literacy skills in your schools; discover strategies for personalized language instruction; gain insights into the future of education for ELL students; begin to understand the challenges facing ELL’s and their teachers; and more.

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This lesson for English Language Learners (ELLs) discusses the physical effects of stress on the human body. In this lesson, learners will practice reading, listening, speaking and writing. All activities are automatically graded with feedback provided to the learner upon submission.

Materials include:
Teacher guides
Student workbooks
Decodable readers
Assessment and remediation guides
Videos
Flip books
Many other supports

TASK: Student will practice reading, writing, speaking and listening about type of Transportation.
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This site offers several online decodable books covering different letter sounds while introducing phonetic and sight words. Reading prompts and discussion points are imbedded throughout the book, with discussion questions at the end.

Sun West School Division have developed holistic EAL rubrics based on the provincial standards (Adapted from: “A GUIDE TO USING THE COMMON FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE (CFR) WITH LEARNERS OF ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE” – September 2013 – Government of Saskatchewan, Ministry of Education).Teachers use these rubrics to assign CFR scores for the EAL students. Sun West CFR Progress Reports have been developed for three levels:Elementary  Middle Level  Secondary  

This document provides a framework for welcoming EAL students into Sun West School Division.
It addresses the role of: administration, the classroom teacher, EAL support teacher, student support teacher. It also looks at assessing the learner's needs and working through the four layers of language acquisition.

This lesson for English Language Learners (ELLs) introduces a series of paintings by Vincent Van Gogh that have become famous throughout the world, Sunflowers. In this lesson, learners will practice reading, listening, speaking and writing. All activities are automatically graded with feedback provided to the learner upon submission.

"This information portal features a repository of resources and intends to provide information to all Saskatchewan educators to support English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners in their classrooms. Whether you're a new teacher or new to the world of EAL learners, you may find useful and practical information on this site.

It may take approximately two hours to complete the five modules in this portal.
You may need additional time to explore the embedded hyperlinks and review the resources in the Helpful Resources sections.
Although the modules are not meant to be sequential, as a first time teacher of an EAL learner it may be helpful to go through the modules in the order they appear. "

The site features a repository of resources and intends to provide information to all Saskatchewan educators in their quest to support EAL learners in their classrooms. Whether you're a new teacher or new to the world of EAL learners, you may find useful and practical information on the site.

The document attached below supports students in grades K-12 in finding amazing databases using school network credentials - anywhere and any time! Including:Encyclopedia BritannicaGale in ContextPoints of ViewScience OnlineVideo StreamingMultilingual Books

This lesson for English Language Learners (ELLs) introduces the traditional food of Japan, sushi. In this lesson, learners will practice reading, listening, speaking and writing. All activities are automatically graded with feedback provided to the learner upon submission.

This lesson for English Language Learners (ELLs) introduces a set of global goals that all countries around the world should strive to achieve, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. In this lesson, learners will practice reading, listening, speaking and writing. All activities are automatically graded with feedback provided to the learner upon submission.

This lesson for English Language Learners (ELLs) introduces the traditional Japanese art of sword making. In this lesson, learners will practice reading, listening, speaking and writing. All activities are automatically graded with feedback provided to the learner upon submission.

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This lesson focuses on artworks that depict things people use for a meal. Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about still life in a painting. Activities emphasize prepositions of location -- through discussions about objects depicted in the featured work of art.

This lesson focuses on an artwork that depicts things people use in a room for both functional and decorative reasons. Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about decorative arts. Activities emphasize using different action verbs with nouns -- through discussions about how people use objects depicted in the featured work of art.

This lesson focuses on artworks that depict things people wear. Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about different media (painting and photography). Activities emphasize descriptions using adjectives -- through discussions about the clothing people are wearing in the featured works of art.

This lesson provides teachers with support for using text-dependent questions and Common Core literacy strategies to help students derive big ideas and key understandings while developing vocabulary using the text "Tomas and the Library Lady". With the help of the English-speaking local librarian, Spanish-speaking Tomas is encouraged to assume the role of family storyteller, finding that he cannot only be a learner but a teacher as well.