Social and Academic Language

Academic Language and ELLs : What Teachers Need to Know is a great article from Colorin Colorado that explains the difference between social and academic language. ELL teachers can compare similar contexts and writing about them using a table, they can teach cognates and teach usage of signal words.

Published by fmoreno12

PE/Health teacher. Louisville, Kentucky. Always caring about my students as they were my own children.

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