Book One

Companion Activities

Every Reflect, Plan, Build, and Audit box in the book has a page here. Scan the code, do the thinking, keep the work.

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• Ch. 1Your Classroom · Asset InventoryInventory what three emergent bilingual students already bring, and what your lesson plan has not yet activated.
• Ch. 2Reflect · BICS / CALP Task SortSort one conversational task and one academic task, then build the bridge between them.
• Ch. 2Reflect · L1 Transfer AuditIdentify what a strong first-language reader can already do, and the move that activates it in English.
• Ch. 3Plan · Language Objectives at Three LevelsWrite a word-level, sentence-level, and discourse-level language target for one task.
• Ch. 4Reflect · Your Translanguaging StanceRate where your practice currently sits, context by context, and name one step forward.
• Ch. 5Plan · Three-Category Scaffold PlannerPlan one sensory, one interactive, and one graphic scaffold for your next lesson, tied to a proficiency level.
• Ch. 5Audit · Filter-Lowering in Your ClassroomAudit two high-filter moments from your last lesson and substitute a filter-lowering move.
• Ch. 6Build · Your Content Area Cognate WallMap five academic terms to their Spanish cognates and shared Latin or Greek roots.