Here is a dual-language Rohingya-English video with basic words to learn for school. Rohingya has no official written language, so visuals and oral translations go a long way! youtu.be/2K5Jvm87EoE #OntEd #WRDSBMLL

Multilingual Language Learners Build Confidence and Community at Camp | #StudentVoice - Waterloo Region District School Board WRDSB Multilingual Language Learners (MLL) headed to camp to celebrate the end of the school year. Over three days, 150[...]

So proud of our newcomer Grade 5 and 6 Junior Joutnalists who contributed to this multilingual #StudentVoice story about @wrdsb MLL Camp! #WRDSBMLL

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Butterfly life cycle labelled diagram with verb word box

English-arabic water cycle diagrams

MLLs can be supported by #PWIM to acquire content-specific vocabulary and concepts while also learning English language structures. Labelling photos and providing word banks and sentence stems can make learning more accessible. #wrdsbMLL

Question charts Question charts are excellent tools to help both teachers and students to generate a wide range of questions. You first choose one of the question words on the left column, then a word from the top ro...

A question matrix is a highly visual scaffold that can be used to prompt higher level questioning, while providing the words necessary to do so. Essential for some, good for all. #wrdsbMLL #OntEd
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Very cool sentence stem ideas for various language functions at different levels of language proficiency! static1.squarespace.com/static/5e287... #OntEd #WRDSBMLL

Hot off the press! Find out how to use Google Meet and Google Translate to make translated audio phone calls! youtu.be/7qRxVe9WBk0 #OntEd #WRDSBMLL

Social and academic vocabulary are not the same. Many newcomers can hold their own in an English social conversation (“recess talk”) but will still need support with academic vocabulary development. Don’t remove supports too soon! youtu.be/ChWknB0-OsI?... #OntEd #WRDSBMLL

Fun with Picture Books: Tell Stories Without Reading

Here’s a great strategy for families with children in ESL or French-Immersion programs to use home languages with picture books. Scroll to the last page for translations in many languages. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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BART Simpson writing: multilingualism is a superpower, not a deficit.

Multilingualism is a superpower, not a deficit.

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Make your own Bart Meme here: www.ranzey.com/generators/b...

Sample learning skills for newcomer students: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #OntEd #WRDSBMLL

Wow. What an amazing turnout for the after school session today on strategies and resources to support MLLs with the new Language Arts curriculum! If you couldn’t attend or need the slides with videos and links from today here you go: drive.google.com/file/d/16mB5... #WRDSBMLL #OntEd

Here's a short structured literacy demo video lesson for teaching students how to read, say, and write the letter "S", while welcoming their home languages into the classroom and using visuals to make new vocabulary understandable. Great for MLLs and ALL kids!

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Have you ever wondered what introducing a new letter sound might look and sound like for multilingual language learners?

Do you want to know how visuals and home languages can be incorporated to support comprehension?

Check this out: youtu.be/THdJq5WPxAY
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