Using Academic Vocabulary Instruction to Help English Language Learners Succeed

Presented by Christi Gilbert
Outstanding ELL Teacher and National Presenter

Specially Designed for K-12 Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Paraprofessionals, ELL Staff, Title I Staff, and Administrators

Practical academic vocabulary instruction practices to boost your ELL students' learning and achievement
Dozens of highly effective academic vocabulary activities to use in any content area
Specific ways to make academic vocabulary "stick" for your ELL students
Receive an extensive digital resource handbook with a wide selection of academic vocabulary learning activities and printables, academic word lists & phrases, a sample unit template incorporating academic vocabulary instruction, and implementation tips you can use immediately

Practical Ideas and Strategies

This outstanding NEW seminar by Christi Gilbert is packed with dozens of practical, ready-to-use strategies to boost your ELL students' success in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies using innovative strategies to teach academic vocabulary. You will walk away with classroom-tested strategies to achieve improved comprehension and understanding while also increasing your students' long-term retention. You will be able to instantaneously engage your English language learners in academic language and discourse, significantly improving their engagement and participation in class. Learn how to demystify and impart abstract vocabulary and concepts to enable students to interpret word problems before they attempt to solve them. Explore a unit guide that will enable you to integrate academic vocabulary, AND the essential understandings required of the content area. Leave with many tools, strategies and resources you can implement immediately!

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Improve Your ELL Students' Success Using Academic Vocabulary Instruction
Help your ELL students to better understand content learning in all subject areas … Learn best practices for supporting overall language development and academic success for your English Language Learners (ELL)
Help Your ELL Students Who Struggle With Understanding Key Academic Concepts
Walk away with classroom tested methods for significantly improved comprehension of academic high utility words that boost your students' long-term retention and understanding of the content you are teaching
Achieve Higher Levels of Engagement and Participation From English Learners
Active engagement leads to decreased misbehavior and increased learning … Learn practical strategies that increase active engagement for all students in your classroom
Learn Specific Ways to Make Academic Vocabulary "Stick"
Learn practical methods to help your struggling readers engage in repetition of target vocabulary multiple times without boredom … Powerful ways to specifically target academic vocabulary at any grade level
Help Your ELL Students Find Greater Success in All Content Areas
Increase your ELL students' learning in math, science, and social studies … Classroom proven ways to help your ELL students achieve content learning at higher levels
Amplify the Benefits of Your Academic Vocabulary Instruction With Co-Teaching
Learn ways to build a more powerful partnership that benefits your ELL students … Specific ideas for using the power of two to help students grow their academic vocabulary
Improve ELL Students' Writing and Speaking Skills by Mastering Academic Vocabulary
You will learn how to help students better communicate and express their understanding of content … See a remarkable improvement on essays, and academic conversations
New, Innovative Techniques to Boost Content Vocabulary Understanding
Take Total Physical Response to a new level with classroom tested techniques that will expand your students' background knowledge and take learning to new heights
Easy-to-Implement Steps to Creating a More Powerful Unit of Study for English Learners
Explore a fully developed content area unit plan for developing academic vocabulary, as well easy-to-use templates that make planning a breeze
Receive an Extensive Digital Resource Handbook Filled With Ideas for Helping ELL Students Learn Academic Vocabulary
Receive an extensive digital resource handbook with a wide selection of vocabulary learning activities and printables, academic word lists, academic phrases, a sample unit template, and a full array of implementation tips you can use immediately with your ELL students

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

Boost ELL students' learning in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies
Leave with classroom-tested methods to enable immediate comprehension and understanding of academic, high utility words that enables long term memory retention
Leave with specific ways to make academic vocabulary really stick
Learn a method that enables struggling readers engage in repetition of target vocabulary multiple times without boredom
Receive an application of Total Physical Response that specifically targets high end academic vocabulary
Significantly improve your ELL students' reading and listening comprehension
Enable every student to immediately understand vocabulary such as cause, effect, empathize, and infer that enable comprehension of stories and inferencing skills
Learn practical strategies for enhancing your ELL co-teaching
How to significantly expand your students' background knowledge and take learning to new heights
More effectively teach abstract terms necessary for successful content area academic discussion and writing
Learn powerful techniques to help your students unlock their understanding of word problems … Demystify and impart the abstract vocabulary and their concepts to enable students to interpret word problems before they attempt to solve them
Explore a content area unit where the vocabulary AND the essential understandings are supported

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

If you are like me, you feel strongly for that ELL student in your classroom, struggling daily to keep up with content understanding during instruction and assessment. No matter what you try, nothing seems to connect their native language intelligence with successful academic performance in English. You have tried somewhat helpful curriculum-based strategies, but those skills alone have not effectively helped your student to harness all the ideas contained in academic language and transfer them into their own functional use. You know in your heart that academic vocabulary knowledge and skills can unlock success for this student, but you need a better path to get there.

This unique one-day seminar provides just that! I am prepared to share with you a variety of highly practical strategies you can use immediately to enable your ELL students to finally access and even master the content and concepts you are teaching! You'll learn innovative approaches to teaching subject specific vocabulary that will help your students improve their reading and listening comprehension and foster longer term memory retention. This seminar is designed to give you practical strategies to teach academic vocabulary you can use in your classroom immediately.

Please join me for a day packed with powerful ways to get more of your ELL students working to their full potential. I look forward to meeting you at the seminar and sharing our passion for our content teaching, and ensuring it is understood and learned by all!

Sincerely,
Christi Gilbert

P.S. My entire emphasis will be on PRACTICAL academic vocabulary strategies you can immediately implement with your own ELL students!

Who Should Attend

K-12 Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Paraprofessionals, ELL Staff, Title I Staff, and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

Powerful resources for helping ELL students at the various stages of language acquisition learn academic vocabulary
Specific academic vocabulary strategies and activities for implementing the most effective instruction for ELL's
Practical ideas for helping your ELL students improve their reading, writing, listening, and speaking for greater school success
Access to K-12 academic vocabulary tools and materials you can use immediately to help your ELL students

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in improving their ELL students' acquisition of academic vocabulary.

Consultation Available
Christi Gilbert will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

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