Five things to know about language when planning for ESL students.

1.- Determine the language demands of the student activities you are planning to do.
2.- Have students to be aware of what it is expected and what to pay attention to.
3.- Plan according to a language category, such as: vocabulary, language structure or language function.
4.- Develop your activities base upon the type of language students will demand to use for the activity to complete.
5.- Use foldables to help students focusing on what it is important for the task to be completed.

Differentiating with foldables

The embeded purpose of having students using foldables is a five prong goal planning framework:

Using foldables will:

1. Improve student achievement:

• Consider the Marzano's strategies such as Non-Linguistic Representation.


• Foldable recommended on page 16.
  

2. Help learner to make sense of information.

3. Help learning facilitators to chunk information.

4. Enhance student skill to construct mental models.

5 Foster learners motivation.

Five elements of a Content-Based ELD

In a content based English Language Development Lesson you will notice:

1.The goal is language development

2. The standards are related to language arts objectives of the lesson.

3. The teaching block is the designated ELD time

4. The content is selected by language objective.

5. The language level correlates to the language proficiency level.

Source: Goldenberg Claude,Promoting Academic Achievement Among English Language Learners

Water Cycle Foldable

Activities

Water Cycle Diagram

Water cycle foldable

Five effective foldables for ESL students

Using foldables to help your ESL students showing understanding

Strategy 1: Use visuals and hands-on objects.
Two tab Cause and Effect foldable

Strategy 2: Make lesson concrete.
Types of punctuation and sentences
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Strategy 3 : Slow the language delivery down.
Understanting positional words


Strategy 4 : Keep oral presentation and reading assignments short.
Showing understanding using non linguistic representation


Strategy 5 : Be creative.
Free choice:How to fold foldables