ELL Strategies for Elementary Learners
Use these sample projects and classroom ideas to support your ELLs as they acquire new language.
Creative use of technology can help ELLs practice and produce language in a safe and engaging way.
"Wixie offers opportunities for students to demonstrate their knowledge across multiple language domains, making it an essential teaching tool for English Language Learners (ELLs). Students can publish their writing and read their writing out loud to their teachers. Wixie gives students voice and choice!"
Meaghan Martin, MEd
Instructional Technology Coach
Prince William County, VA
Built-in Activities to Support ELLs
Elevate your classroom with Wixie’s Curriculum and Template libraries! Designed with English Language Learners in mind, our collection features dynamic, ready-to-use files that make lesson planning a breeze.
Multimodal Wixie supports ELLs
Simplified Digital Storytelling
Students added a single image and recorded narration to share facts about content they learned and practice fluency.
Passion Picture Books
Students write and illustrate on a topic they love and print as foldable booklets they can read over and over.
Engaging English Language Learners
A collection of visual, speaking, and listening activities to support all 5 stages of language acquisition.
Sentence Strips
Students use the Wixie's Sentence Strip template to write and illustrate a sentence with new vocabulary.
Retelling Repetitive Stories
Students practice writing and speaking new vocabulary words using familiar and repetitive books and songs.
Graphic Organizers
Students use graphic organizers as story starters and to help structure their thinking.
More ways teachers are using Wixie
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Video retelling
NIC KINDER made a video about Elephants on WIXIE! I think I need to create a video booth! pic.twitter.com/4kGkhbceWi
— Melinda Rose (@melrules61) March 7, 2019 -
Receptive and Productive Language Practice
Ss use #Wixie to describe what plants need to grow and to label the plant life cycle. What an awesome tool to demonstrate receptive and productive language using voice and sign! @Tech4Learning @PWCSScience @Michell36007415 @ColesRoadrunner pic.twitter.com/99UIpeCqxY
— Mrs. Martin (@ITCColes) April 28, 2022 -
Creative and Critical Thinking
Do you know what happens when an ESOL Teacher, SBTS and Ms. Boyd�s kindergarten class all come together? You get Creative and Critical Thinkers exploring how to use Wixie to express ideas! We can�t wait to see those final projects! #MeepMeep @fcpsnews @drNEKing @KraftJesse pic.twitter.com/ZM1IgpHUl4
— Lorton Station ES (@LortonStationES) March 23, 2022 -
Research Projects
KG Ss began creating a book about their animal research today in #Wixie @carolynkdaly @Coles_Fletcher @ColesRoadrunner pic.twitter.com/C3unj1AuBk
— Mrs. Martin (@ITCColes) April 26, 2022 -
Retell and Summarize
My students used Wixie to summarize Jan Brett's "The Mitten".Then, they recorded their voices when retelling the story. It was a fun and effective activity. An activity for both K and 1st. L.K.2, L.K.3, L.K.1.A,L.K.1.3 @ESOLMentor @PGCPSESOL @ESOLSupervisor @McSearsA pic.twitter.com/sVhM9od0za
— Asli Masucci (@MasucciAsli) January 3, 2019 -
Fluency Practice
Thursday's are fluency days- Love hearing students read with confidence! #wixie @DundalkES #BCPSz_4 pic.twitter.com/G4l92C7ERo
— Maggie Boquard (@Miss_Boquard) February 2, 2017
