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PRACTICAL STRATEGIES THAT YOU CAN USE RIGHT NOW 
(AND SOME THAT REQUIRE SOME PLANNING...  I AIN'T GONNA LIE)

***For additional strategies, visit the Emergency Aid page.  Click here!***
***For Videos and Songs, click here!
***For necessary building blocks you should drill with newcomers every day, visit my Routine for Newcomers page.

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Technology
(Websites and more)

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Sentence Frames

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TPR and Gestures

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Front Load Vocabulary

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Color coding

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Demystifying Figurative Language

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Label your classroom

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Visuals

Classroom Labels
Word Walls

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Videos and Movies

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Music

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Kinesthetic activities, Hands-on activities, and Role Play

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Personal Dictionaries

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Word Walls

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Ask/Answer Cards

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Choral Repetition

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Pocket Chart Sentences

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Building Background / Schema /
Activating Prior Knowledge

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Modeling

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Realia / Manipulatives

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Jigsaw Text Reading

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For more, visit: http://www.colorincolorado.org/ell-strategies-best-practices

Here's another great article about 5 scaffolds discussed on this page:
https://www.middleweb.com/35980/ells-try-these-5-scaffolds-in-any-subject/

The idea for this website originated from a booklet I compiled for the gen ed teachers in my school.  Download it here for educational purposes only.