Click open templates and examples you can download and adapt for your own classroom.
Building Background Knowledge — Use this series of Google Slides from teacher Stephanie Gerhold to see examples of many variations to build background knowledge for your multilingual learners. Use slides 3 and 6 as templates for your own content for your class.
Cooperative Group Roles — Use this series of Google Slides from teacher Stephanie Gerhold to download or adjust the role cards for cooperative groups in your own classroom across content areas.
Downloadable Resources from Dr. Monica Burns — Dr. Burns shares educational technology and AI resource sites that are free and may support your work with multilingual learners and the rest of your students. Her website, Class Tech Tips, contains some free resources for educators to use.
Joyful Reading Guide and Classroom Materials — Look through this 57-page resource with explanations and ready-to-use templates and questions to support young readers in enjoying reading and learning how to comprehend text. This guide also includes directions sheets for families in English and Spanish to do fun follow-up art and creative activities around a few children’s books and includes links at the end to other good literacy resources for young readers.
Newcomer Support — Use this series of Google Slide activities from teacher Stephanie Gerhold to help your newcomers understand common phrases and classroom materials they will need for learning and communicating at school. As a follow-up, use the “Language Learning Games” under the Families section of this Multilingual Learners Hub for your newcomers and their families practice common words they need at school, the grocery store, and around the community. In these games, simply click on the icon like the school bus for the school or the store, restaurant, or hospital pictures for common words pronounced in both their home language and in English to hear how to communicate what they want to others.
Peer Learning Activity Checklist — This free resource from Support Ed has a list of considerations for you to check off about your lesson plan to determine if you’ve provided the scaffolds and supports that will help your multilingual learners to succeed. Here is an article to explain more about Peer Learning.
Prepositional Fun — This adaptable template by teacher Melvin Aragon helps beginners move objects on the slide to learn the concepts of “in” and “on.” You could adapt the slides to teach other prepositional phrases to your students beyond these two show.
Reading Comprehension Supports for Multilingual Learners –Use this series of Google Slides from teacher Stephanie Gerhold to print out or show reading comprehension questions with icons for multilingual learners to practice and understand routines good readers do as they read texts across all content areas.
Science Concepts of Light and Shadow — These adaptable slides from teacher Melvin Aragon contain lots of visual examples to help students understand the nuances of light sources and shadows. Adapt the pictures of other scientific concepts to compare more contrasting ideas you can share with your students.
Writing a Simple Personal Narrative — Download and adjust this template created by educator Melvin Aragon for your students to have a step-by-step template for creating a personal narrative or sequencing one they are retelling from their reading.