How Do You Keep Up With ELL Accommodations in the Classroom?

It can be really challenging to keep track of all the different accommodations needed for ELL students in the classroom. Understanding each student’s unique needs and making sure they’re getting the right support while also covering the curriculum is a lot to handle. Every student may require different types of instructional modification, and it can be overwhelming to manage on top of all of your other teaching responsibilities. This year we want to ease your workload and help create an inclusive and supportive environment for all students with printable teacher organization tools from Teach Starter.

One good rule of thumb for keeping up with ELL accommodations is to sit down at the beginning of the year with student test data, permanent records, etc., and identify which accommodations are required and which ones may be beneficial to add or remove for your grade-level content. With that data in hand, it will be easy to create an Accommodations-at-a-Glance worksheet for each student needing classroom modifications. Once you’ve got that in place, tuck it inside your binder or planner, and then you have everything at hand when you need to plan for instruction, reteaching, and testing.

Download a Printable ELL Accommodations Checklist

This resource download includes a printable teacher checklist/form to help organize every bit of that ELL data at the beginning of the year. The fully editable form includes a checklist of possible modifications for the classroom, along with space to record student data, such as:

• ELL Learning Progressions
• Student Native Language
• Can-Do descriptors
• And more!

This resource is available as a printable PDF file and as a fully editable Google Slides resource. To get your copy, click the download button to select your preferred file format.

This resource was created by Samantha Rose, a teacher in Florida and Teach Starter Collaborator

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