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ACCELA supports teachers in designing, implementing, and reflecting on curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices in ways that connect with students' lives, address the Massachusetts' Curricular Frameworks, and attend to Massachusetts' ELL Benchmarks and Outcomes.
ACCELA also supports teachers in developing curricular units that reflect ACCELA's core principles. These principles include:
- drawing on students' linguistic and cultural resources
- attending critically to the linguistic features of content-based reading and writing practices
- providing students with instructional scaffolding to ensure ELLs develop both academic English proficiency and subject-matter knowledge
- reflecting on student work
The following links provide examples of ACCELA teachers' projects:
Laura Caron, Grade 2, Science
Laura Caron designed a curricular unit to support her students in learning about the life cycle of insects and acquiring grade level literacy practices.
Wendy Seger, Grade 2, English Language Arts and Technology
Wendy Seger and Dong Shin Shin, an ACCELA Doctoral Fellow, teamed up to design a unit to support second graders in writing recounts by blogging with their peers and family members.
Ibelis Mateo-Leon, Grade 3, English Language Arts
Ibelis Mateo-Leon supports her students in reading, writing, and analyzing fairy tales.
Maria Cahillane, Grade 4, English Language Arts
Maria Cahillane designed a unit to support bilingual students in reading and writing poetry. The unit attends to the power of code-mixing and code-switching in literary texts.
Michelle Grilli & Nylsa Davila, Grade 4
These teachers supported ELLs in meeting Science Standards and ELL Benchmarks in an exploration of different states of matter.
Amy Rivera, Grade 4, English Language Arts
Amy Rivera modified mandated textbook materials to make them more supportive of ELLs' content-based academic literacy. These modifications included analyzing multicultural children's literature and using a genre-based approach to teach students to read and write personal narratives.
Sue Hucul, Grade 6
Sue designed a curricular unit to teach sixth grade ELLs how to read and write poetry as a way of exploring their cultural and linguistic identities and to meet ELA Standards and ELL Benchmarks.
Mary Wright, Grade 8, English Language Arts
Mary Wright supports ELL students in meeting ELA Standards by reading the poems of Tupac Shakur and apprenticing students to keeping their own writer's notebooks.
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