The Language Lens for Content Classrooms

Welcome to #EllChat_BkClub 20.0 featuring 

The Language Lens for Content Classrooms by Sarah Ottow. 

Sarah is CEO/Executive Director and Founder of Confianza LLC. She is also an Independent Consultant focusing on improving outcomes for diverse populations by reinforcing relationship skills and value-identification.

Read more about Sarah here

We are super excited about this book, which focuses on the need for ALL teachers to have a language lens in order to ensure academic language instruction is included  across all content areas and throughout the day for English learners and academic language learners alike! 

Our reading schedule is as follows: 

Questions will be posted weekly on twitter (typically on each Saturday) and I will also link the questions here so you can easily come back to this post and find links to questions from all of the weeks in one place.

Week 1 Questions
Week 2 Questions
Week 3 Questions

ELL Confianza blog posts referenced in the text

If you choose to respond to the weekly questions, please identify which one you’re responding to in your tweet (2A1, 2A2) Please note: The number before the Q indicates which week of the chat we are in, so 2A1 would indicate the answer to question 1 from week 2. Remember that you are not limited to these questions. Post a pic of your highlighted text, your favorite quotes, meaningful ideas, book snaps, your own questions, and connections to other texts!! 

#EllChat_BkClub is a slow chat, so you can post at any time throughout the week and throughout the chat. You can also post about questions or topics from previous weeks. It's all good as long as you are learning! 

For this chat, we will be using the following hashtags:

#EllChat_BkClub 20.0 

#LanguageLens

Also, please tag the author @SarahOttow

To get started: 
1. Post your #bookie (a photo of yourself with your copy of the book!
2. Introduce yourself on our #LanguageLens Flipgrid 

Please reach out if you have any questions!

@Toppel_ELD

katie.toppel@gmail.com

If you are new to #EllChat_BkClub, check out the resources in this post for more information about how to participate.