50 Strategies for Teaching 
English Language Learners

Jill Kerper Mora, Ed. D.
San Diego State University

 

This page is provided for teacher education students using the textbook Herrell, 2000 in courses on ESL, ELD/SDAIE and other methods courses. Many of the strategies are linked to resources on Dr. Mora's CLAD Website that elaborate on uses of the teaching approach or give examples of activities. 

Herrell, A. L. (2000). Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill.

*These 50 strategies are listed in the Table of Contents of Herrell, 2000 in alphabetical order. Consequently, page numbers are not given.

Most of the activities described in the 50 Strategies utilize and integrate the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. However, each activity tends to have a focus skill. The focus skill is the basis for this categorization. Critical thinking and study skills require higher-level integration of all four skills. Click here for additional activities focused on each of the four levels of language proficiency and four language arts skills.

Lesson Planning, Classroom Organization & Assessment  Academic Language Scaffolding Advance Organizers Anecdotal Records Cooperative Learning Integrated Curriculum Projects Language Framework Planning Learning Centers Multimedia Presentations Multiple Intelligences Strategies Performance Sampling Portfolio Assessment Predictable Routines and Signals Skills Grouping Theoretical Overview

Listening Activities  Communication Games Dictoglos Interactive Read Aloud Imaging Preview/Review Realia Strategies Total Physical Response   Visual Scaffolding

Speaking Activities  Language Experience Approach Language Focus Lesson Manipulative Strategies Modeled Talk Partner Work Peer Tutoring Reporting Back Scripting Story Reenactment Syntax Surgery Sorting Activities  Vocabulary Role Play

Reading Activities  Collaborative Reading Cloze Activities Free Voluntary Reading Guided Reading Repetition and Innovation Shared Reading

Writing Activities  Cohesion Links Interactive Writing Word Wall Writing Workshop

Critical Thinking and Study Skills  Attribute Charting GIST Learning Strategy Instruction Leveled Questions  Reciprocal Teaching

Culture  Bilingual Books and Labels  Culture Studies

 

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This page was last updated on 07/26/02