Fostering English Learners Academic Language Development

Target Audience: K-12, Core Content Teachers

Presenter: Julie Kanagy, District ESOL Coach and Teacher

Do you struggle getting your ESOL students to use academic language? This session will provide strategies from the book Unlocking English Learners' Potential by Diane Staehr Fenner and Sydney Snyder to help students be more successful. Strategies on increasing awareness of the academic language English Learners need in order to be successful during a lesson will be presented as well as vocabulary development.