Tool #5: Suggested Scaffolds at Each Proficiency Level

Beginning

  • Access to text, video, and/or instructions in home language, as well as in English
  • Sentence frames to help ELLs respond to text-dependent questions posed throughout the lesson
  • Word walls and word banks
  • Reduced linguistic load for language of instruction

Intermediate

  • Access to text, video, and/or instructions in home language, as well as in English, as appropriate
  • Sentence stems
  • Word walls and banks

Scaffolds for all levels (including Advanced) 

  • Concise background knowledge 
  • Pre-taught vocabulary 
  • Graphic organizers 
  • Glossaries 
  • Dictionaries 
  • Repetition, paraphrasing, modeling 
  • Pair and small-group work