Listenwise is proud to be a part of so many California teachers’ toolkits. With our ever-expanding library of California standards-aligned ELD lessons, we aim to provide rigorous and engaging content for English learners. In this way, our product makes an ideal resource for educators following the California English Learner Roadmap. Read on to learn more…
Did you know that Listenwise ELD lessons can be easily used as ACCESS test prep resources? The materials found in our lessons are ready-made examples of the kinds of questions and visuals provided on the listening exam. In this blog post, we will walk you through how to use Listenwise for WIDA ACCESS test prep…
During our webinar with career teacher, consultant, and author Tan K. Huynh, he led us through his approach to teaching multilinguals using podcasts and video. His goal is to use comprehensible input, as defined by linguist and education researcher Dr. Stephen Krashen. “The focus when you’re working with multilingual students is comprehensible input,” says Huynh,…
Listenwise values the recommended instructional best practice of integrating content and language learning. Doing so is one of the four “Big Ideas” framing the updated WIDA 2020 ELD Standards Framework. Content–language integration means “multilingual learners develop content and language concurrently, with academic content as a context for language learning and language as a means for…
In order to help prioritize and organize the integration of content and language, WIDA has identified four Key Language Uses: NarrateInformExplainArgue These provide focus through an increased emphasis on pedagogy that highlights genres as a way of organizing language use. WIDA’s Key Language Uses also provide a helpful framework for prioritizing academic language development. Each…
Our ELD Lesson Library has been carefully designed to support beginning and intermediate-level English language learners develop proficiency. As these students build a foundation of literacy in another language, while deepening content knowledge, educators can use Listenwise features to scaffold development of essential components of literacy, including phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to…
Our teachers (left to right):Roxana Castro, 4-6 dual language, CASarah Choe, K-5 SpEd teacher, CORobin Hinchcliffe, EL Coordinator, CA We officially launched our ELD Lesson Library and teachers are already talking! Today we’re sharing a conversation we had with three incredible EL educators, two from California and one from Colorado. Each of these teachers has…
This school year, give all your multilingual students a boost with new Listenwise features built specifically to support emergent ELs! Our newly-launched ELD Lesson Library’s multimodal lessons provide several exciting new features, including: Multimodal lessons (podcasts & videos) Optimized assignment experience for emergent ELs Immersive Spanish language supports— with plans to expand to more languages…
Back-to-school season is planning time — and the perfect chance to prepare to try something new with your students! At Listenwise, we’re excited to support and inspire you as you plan to integrate podcast and video lessons into your curriculum all year long — no matter what you are teaching!* To save you time, we’re…
We recently held a webinar with author, educator, and multilingual thought leader Valentina Gonzalez, “Building the Listening-Reading Connection for Multilinguals.” In this webinar, Gonzalez shared her valuable perspective on teaching both reading and listening skills to English language learners. Additionally, she shared two classroom strategies for teachers who want to leverage podcasts to deepen their…
