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Section 4: Shared Reading as an Instructional Practice Required Reading: Section 4 from the course text: Strategies for English Learners Additional required reading - Teacher Skills to Support English Language Learners <http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.620.4481&rep=rep1&type=pdf> Now watch these short videos with additional teaching strategies to use with English Learners: How do these teachers make the learning comprehensible and accessible for their students? Bridging Content & Language in a Dual Language Classroom <https://www.teachingchannel.org/video/parallel-lines> 7 Step Process for Teaching Vocabulary to ELs <https://www.teachingchannel.org/video/vocabulary-for-ells> Total Physical Response Vocabulary <https://www.teachingchannel.org/video/total-physical-response-vocabulary?jwsource=cl> Essay Structure for ELLs <https://www.teachingchannel.org/video/ell-essay-structure-lesson> Scaffolding text structure in writing for ELs <https://www.teachingchannel.org/video/scaffolding-text-structure> Required Reading: Chapter 3: Word Study: Personalizing Vocabulary from *The Flexible ELA Classroom: Practical Tools for Differentiated Instruction in Grades 4-8* by Amber Chandler Assignment 4: Vocabulary & Strategies for ELs 1. Choose a piece of text with expressive vocabulary or academic vocabulary. 2. Using a strategy or two from the course textbook, create a plan for teaching and reinforcing the vocabulary from your chosen text. 3. Plan specific strategies to use with your ELs to teach and reinforce the vocabulary as discussed in the course text or the Teaching Channel videos.