Interdisciplinary+ELD

On this page, you will find a list of **articles**, **strategies,** and (web) **tools** you can use to deepen your **students' understanding of content** through interactive practice.
====You will also find tips on how to collaborate across disciplines in order to design and deliver **student-centered, hands-on,** and **interactive lessons** that will help your students **build proficiency in English** and **increase knowledge of academic content.**==== ====Click here to read an article on how to **support English language learners across content** areas.====

====Click here to see the 9 most effective instructional strategies for working with ELLs, according to Dr. Robert Marzano.====

**Concept Maps**
====Concept Maps are a great tool to help make learning visible for ELLs. Take a look at the document, which explains the use of a concept maps and also shows an example of a concept map.====

Take a look at a sample concept maps that are ideal for ELLs because they use non-linguistic representations along with the written concepts/words.

**Flashcard Machine** (http://www.flashcardmachine.com)
====Create interactive web-based study flash cards and share them with others. Students can either create their own flashcards to prepare for a quiz, or teachers can create flashcards for their students and incorporate them into their lessons as part of an interactive and collaborative learning or review activity.====

**RAFT - transitioning from reading to writing**
====Use this strategy to integrate reading and writing for students with a wide range of abilities, from emerging to advanced readers and writers. It can be used with fiction or non-fiction texts and across content and disciplines. It is a great tool for differentiation!==== ====To check out the enclosed document which includes a step by step instruction for use in reading and writing, language support, a sample writing product, and a blank template, click .====

**Story Star**
====The **Story Star** is a graphic organizer that works well when used for pre-writing or summarizing activities. It is successful because it gives emerging readers and writers, and English language learners guidance and help them structure their thinking as they tackle what they will inititally see as dauntingly complex tasks.====

Download a Story Star graphic organizer at [[file:StoryStar.pdf]].
====**Event Map Event Maps** are similar to Story Stars that help students **structure and organize texts**, both fiction and non-fiction. Because they help students pull out vital information from a text, they also encourage students to **reflect and think critically**, as students have to **judge and evaluate** what events or information they deem significant.====

Click on [|Suggestions for Parking Lot] for ideas on how to use this activity.
====I recommend a poster-sized rendition of the [|Parking Lot] graphic for use in your classroom. Laminating it will allow you to reuse the parking lot over and over again.====