Best practices are intended to support multilingual learners (MLs) in all classes, no matter their proficiency level. These strategies are expected to be used by all teachers within lessons, assignments, and assessments to support MLs and all learners. Best practices are strategies that educators can quickly implement within daily instruction, activities, and classroom assessments.
Description
Multilingual learners (MLs) benefit from hands on activities, and manipulatives give kinesthetic learners something to manipulate or handle as they are learning a new concept.
Examples:
Manipulatives are not just for math! Manipulatives can also include the following:
- action dice
- vocabulary cards
- articulation boxes
- magnetic letters
- realia
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Teacher |
Student |
 |
The teacher introduces a new concept using appropriate manipulatives.
The teacher explicitly teaches students how to use the manipulatives for learning. |
The student uses the hands-on, tactile materials to learn a new concept. |
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Teacher |
Student |
 |
"Take out your magnetic letters to use to help form the new words using this new letter blend." |
"Can I use my articulation boxes to help me?" |
| Recommended Domain(s) |
Recommended Level(s) |
| Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing |
All levels |
