English Language Learner supports
Amplify ELA provides many supports for English Language Learners (ELLs), allowing teachers to adjust instruction so that ELLs can access grade-level content along with their English-proficient classmates. These supports maintain academic rigor and high cognitive demand, while providing scaffolding to support learners at different language levels. They also help to reduce the language demands of learning while maintaining content and learning goals.
Supports include:
- Vocab App
- Visual supports for differentiated prompts
- Definitions of key vocabulary in differentiated activities
- Word banks in many writing activities
- Discussion Sentence Starters, Response Starters for Share activities, and sentence starters for differentiated prompts
- Simplified language in student directions and Writing Prompts
- Chunked directions and prompts
- Reduced amount of text
- Text previews, or short context setting introductions, to foster reading comprehension
- Sentence frames to provide language conventions and support reading comprehension
- Graphic organizers
Idiom videos
| To see eye to eye | To cut corners | To miss the boat |
| To play it by ear | To think outside the box | To bend over backwards |
| To be on the ball | The last straw | To add insult to injury |
| To wash hands of something |