Welcome Back to Writing with ELLs and the Common Core! Originally posted August 9, 2013 on Colorin Colorado In this week’s post, guest blogger Dr. Ayanna Cooper writes about…writing! In preparation for the start of a new school year, teachers may begin planning their first few lessons or units. When thinking about implementing Common…
In this week’s post, I’ll share some information related to assessing English language learners that I gathered while attending the Council of Chief State School Officers National Conference on Student Assessment last week. You can take a look at the CCSSO NCSA conference program as well as several presentations here.
In last week’s post, I shared the first part of the year-end review of our CCSS for ELLs posts. That post focused on the big picture overview of the year’s posts related to implementing the CCSS for ELLs. This week, I’ll give you a recap of instructional considerations and resources for…
As some teachers’ school years have already come to a close and others’ school years are quickly winding down, I thought it would be a good time to share a recap of this year’s top themes on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for ELLs blog. I’ll present the recap…
Originally posted June 5, 2013 on Colorin Colorado by Diane Staehr Fenner In my first post in this series about the Common Core and writing, I looked at some general considerations for English language learners (ELLs), including an overview of how the the writing standards are organized in English Language Arts/Literacy. In…
Originally posted May 17, 2013 on Colorin Colorado I’m finding that as I write my posts, my original ideas morph into unexpected topics. While preparing last week’s post on ELL writing considerations in the Common Core, I was struck by the fact that the intersection of culture and writing is not…
