Blog #9

I feel the most important strategies teachers can use for ELL students for both fiction and non-fiction is help create common background knowledge and front load vocabulary before reading.  After this background knowledge, vocabulary support, and previous teacher modeling for how to use/read text features, I feel the non-fiction texts help support ELL students more than fiction, especially in the upper grades when the fiction texts do not have visual that support the story line.   The use of graphic organizers, visual aids, clear labeling, titles, and glossaries, helps with student comprehension.