Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Moving Ahead While passing by an open door, you hear Jorge, a 4th grade ELL student, some sentences from a story that he wrote for homework using the week's vocabulary terms. The teacher, Ms. Shoefit, has 24 students in her ELA class and 10 of those students are English learners. How can Ms. Shoefit balance trying to reach the goal of increasing the English of her ELL students while trying to move ahead with her regular students? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Differentiate instruction is the key to Ms. Shoefit's dilemma. The ELL students can continue becoming proficient in English while still moving forward with the class. Students in 4th grade are working on finding the main idea and key details within a text. Ms. Shoefit's regular students will fill out a graphic organizer using complete sentences, and her ELL's will write the main idea in a complete sentence started by the teacher and draw pictures or two words describing the key details within the story. The Ell's can demonstrate their knowledge of theme and key details without being bogged down with having to write four complete sentences.