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Language, Literacy, and Learning in the Content Areas

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.
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Teaching Resources | Math
These principles and accompanying Mathematical Language Routines provide guidance to mathematics teachers for recognizing and supporting students' language development processes in the context of mathematical sense making.
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Remote Learning
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.
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English Language Arts
This unit shows instructional approaches that are likely to help ELLs meet new standards in English Language Arts.
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Science
Helpful resources for science educators.
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Teaching Resources | Math
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).
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