ELL Students-Low Reading Levels at High School

[astahl]

I teach several ELL students in my ECS classes. We use the CSD curriculum for our ECS classes. My ELL students reading levels are on the lower spectrum of WIDA.

I am looking for suggestions or comments on how you teach the CSD course to your ELL students?

Thanks,
Alicia

[mwood]

Here’s a previous post on the forum with some suggestions for translating pages and other strategies you may be able to use. The question was about Spanish, but could be used for any language.

Spanish translation?

Hello! Getting the websites to translate to other languages is usually something where other teachers have found external tools to help out with, including Google Translate. This post has some good suggestions at the bottom for strategies that might be relevant: English Language Learners in the CS Classroom Additionally, for Code Studio levels, Code.org has started incorporating the Immersive Reader tool, which includes a translation feature. Here’s an example of how you could use it for a leve…

Hope that helps!

Mike

[astahl]

Thank you so much for the information and great resources.