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Their (ELLs) Needs

Although ELL students come from diverse backgrounds, they have several common needs.

They need to:

build their oral English skills

acquire reading and writing skills in English

maintain a learning continuum in the content areas (e.g., mathematics, science, and social studies).

Some ELL students will have other needs that will make the task of learning much more difficult.

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Challenges Facing ELLs

Whatever label is used to identify these students, research has shown that they, in disproportionately large numbers, face low achievement and high drop out rates.

By and large, ELLs are not receiving instruction that supports their highest possible achievement.

Among the instructional factors that affect ELLs’ achievement are:

-low teacher expectations;

-assignment to classrooms with under-qualified or inexperienced teachers;

-instructional methods that do not address the development of much needed

verbal and vocabulary building skills;

-instruction that does not build on students’ prior skills, knowledge, and

experiences;

What is Sheltered Instruction?

A means for making grade-level academic content more accessible for English Language Learner (ELL) while at the same time promoting English Language Development (ELD).

The practice of highlighting key language features and incorporating strategies that make the content comprehensible to all learners.