Content area teachers who teach multilingual students need four fundamental understandings to design and deliver lessons that foster content learning and disciplinary language simultaneously. These Integrated Language and Content Fundamentals provide educators with theoretical foundations along with pedagogical practices needed to plan and implement instruction that leverages the assets of our multilingual learners for success in content area classrooms. 

These four English Language Fundamentals guide our work with school districts as they seek to either create or enhance their current Designated (aka "Targeted" or "Standalone") ELD curricular units to build upon the strengths and meet the needs of their multilingual learners.

These principles and accompanying Mathematical Language Routines (MLRs) provide guidance to mathematics teachers for recognizing and supporting students' language development processes in the context of mathematical sense making.

States, districts, and schools have asked for help with gathering information on student progress, given the shift to distance learning. In response, Understanding Language created two one-hour virtual sessions focused on strengthening Formative Assessment practices in remote and non-remote environments.

This unit shows instructional approaches that are likely to help ELLs meet new standards in English Language Arts.

Helpful resources for science educators.

The goal of these materials is to illustrate how Common Core aligned math tasks can be used to support math instruction and language development for ELLs at three grade spans (elementary, middle, and high school).