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This video, produced by the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Program, is part of a series developed for the Professional Learning Communities Facilitator’s Guide for the What Works Clearinghouse Practice Guide: Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School.
In this video, a teacher in a fourth-grade class demonstrates how to use a graphic organizer as the foundation of a writing assignment. The class shown has 26 students. The majority have attended this school since kindergarten. Nine of the students are native speakers, while the rest come from homes where Spanish is the primary language. Six of the students were either reclassified as fluent English proficient or found to be proficient in English when initially tested on entering kindergarten. Of the remaining 11 English learners, 1 student is at the early advanced level of English proficiency, 9 are at the intermediate level, and 1 is at the early intermediate level. This teaching segment was filmed during the third month of school.
This video was prepared for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under Contract ED-IES-12-C-0012 by Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, administered by SEDL. The content of the video does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of IES or the U.S. Department of Education, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
This REL video is in the public domain. While permission to reprint or use this video is not necessary, it should be cited as:
Instructional Research Group. (2015). Using graphic organizers in writing (fourth-grade class) [Videofile]. In J. A. Dimino, M. Taylor, & J. Morris, Professional learning communities facilitator's guide for What Works Clearinghouse practice guide: Teaching academic content and literacy to English learners in elementary and middle school (REL 2015-105). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest. Retrieved from ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs.
This video is available on the Regional Educational Laboratory website at ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs.