Thank you so much for spending part of your day with me! Everything we used together is right here, plus a few free resources I come back to again and again.
Take whatever is helpful, and please pass it along to your colleagues. That is what it is for!
Session handouts
These open in Google Drive. You can download or print any of them, and you do not need a Google account to get in.
MLens Planning Organizer
The four page planning tool from our session. Take a lesson you are already teaching and walk it through the Assets, Access and Agency lenses. You will be surprised what opens up!
Spanish to English Transfer Chart
What transfers from Spanish to English across all six elements of structured literacy, what to keep an eye on, and real examples for each one. Our multilingual learners are already bringing so much of this with them.
Los Volcanes Text Preview
The Spanish text we previewed together! The facilitator card on the back has the English translation and the discussion questions, so you can run this with your own team.
Second Grade Asset Profile
A snapshot of one of my second graders. Her decoding accuracy in Spanish sits right next to her accuracy in English, and that difference tells us exactly where to go next.
Want it all in one place?
Open the full folderA few of my favorites
All free, and all created by people doing wonderful work for multilingual learners.
The PLUSS Framework
Sanford, Esparza Brown and Turner (2012). Five practices you layer onto instruction you already have: pre-teaching vocabulary, language modeling, visuals, systematic instruction, and strategic use of the home language. And the full paper is free!
Colorin Colorado: Cognates
Their cognate lists are the fastest place to start. Spanish is the big one, and they have French, Portuguese, German and Haitian Creole lists too.
WIDA
The Proficiency Level Descriptors and Can Do Descriptors we looked at together. Worth bookmarking for the next time you are writing a goal or planning a scaffold.
Cox Campus
Free literacy courses from the Rollins Center at Atlanta Speech School. No cost, certificates included, and open to educators anywhere.
I would love to hear from you
If something from our session makes its way into your planning or your classroom, will you tell me about it? Even a sentence or two helps me know what is actually useful once you are back in the building with your students.
And if your school or district is digging into this work and wants to go further, reply to my email or write to me any time at angela@literacyfutures.com. I would love to talk it through with you!