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Rolando Diaz teaches sixth-grade science at Del Valle Middle School. His class is a mix of English language learners (ELLs) with vary-  \ning levels of English proficiency. He also has a few newcomer students, mostly from Mexico and Central America. Although all the students are Latino, they have varying degrees of Spanish proficiency.  \nDiane August is a managing researcher and the director of the Center for English Language Learners atthe American Institutes for Research. Previously, she was a senior research scientist atthe Centerfor Applied Linguistics and a senior program officer atthe National Academy of Sciences. This article is drawn from chapters 7 and 8 of the report Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures, published in February 2017 by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which is available online at [www.bit](www.bit). ly/2nObDhP.  \nToday, Mr. Diaz is teaching a lesson on ecology. To prepare for it, he has added several scaffolds to the district-mandated science curriculum. He presents slides to guide the lesson, providing students with visual support for what they hear him say.  \nStudents also have a workbook that corresponds to the slides. For each slide, students engage in an activity that helps them process information. In this case, it is “partner talk” requiring them to describe a variety of habitats in terms of food, shelter, and temperature. They also use a bilingual glossary with pictures and English and Spanish definitions for the lesson’s target vocabulary words. The glossary asks students to answer a question about each word and draw a picture or provide an example. For instance, for“ecosystem,” they describe one near their house.  \nMr. Diaz begins the lesson by introducing the content and language objectives for the day. Next, he explains several general and domain-specific words using the slides.  \nHe quickly gives each definition in English, asks a student to read the definition in Spanish, presents an example for each definition, and asks students to discuss each word’s meaning. A few  \n4 AMERICAN EDUCATOR | FALL 2018  \nweeks ago, he taught a mini-lesson on recognizing English-Spanish cognates, so they discuss whether “habitat”  \nand “ecosystem” are also cognates.  \nStudents then form groups to explore the schoolyard habitat. In each group, students are assigned various roles—mapmaker, bug collector, vegetation inspector, soil sampler, or data collector—and they complete a corresponding chart. For example, the vegetation inspector measures and records the height of the tallest vegetation and works with the mapmaker to record the location.  \nAt the end of the lesson, students listen and follow along as Mr. Diaz reads the section of the grade-level text that discusses features of the ecosystem in Yellowstone National Park. After each section of text, students answer questions orally about the text, illustrations, and other visual displays. Mr. Diaz provides sentence starters and sentence frames to scaffold responses for his students with lower levels of English proficiency.* He intentionally pairs newcomers with bilingual peers so they can converse in Spanish before writing in English.  \nA longtime teacher, Mr. Diaz has effectively planned and carried out instruction on a specific science topic. He has ensured that students with varying degrees of English proficiency can access the academic content, strengthen their literacy skills, and engage with and learn from their peers.  \nI’ve worked with Mr. Diaz and many others like him to incorporate these best practices into their teaching. His teaching reflects the latest research on educating ELLs. In this article, I discuss this research","cbCairmXfY1KyDrD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairmXfY1KyDrD","pdf",408518,"English","# Educating English Language Learners\n## Classroom scaffolds and bilingual supports\n## Research principles for teaching ELLs\n## Access to grade-level course content","[{\"question\":\"How does classroom scaffolding support English language learners during science lessons?\",\"answer\":\"It uses slides, visual guidance, and slide-matched workbook activities so students process information. 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