The document provides ideas for engaging English language learners in lessons, including reading short books aloud and having students act out actions, sketch vocabulary, and reread stories; singing songs and reading poems with visual supports; acting out stories, scenarios, and retelling stories through drawings and sentences; modeling the rhythm and cadence of English by reading passages aloud; and using known works to focus on phonological awareness in a brief and lively way.

1. Engaging English Language Learners

4. Sing songs or chants and read poems with visual supports.

6. Recreate scenarios or retell stories through actions, drawings and sentences using frames they complete with learned words and phrases.

9. Use known works to focus on phonological awareness. Make this brief and lively.