I am new to teaching esl and to teaching middle school. I have taught elementary for 6 years. I am the first and only esl teacher at our charter school. I will be responsible for providing esl services to 4th-8th graders. We currently don’t have a curriculum. I have been asked to find one to purchase. What are your recommendations for a curriculum?

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I like Word by Word by Molinsky.

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We used Imagine Learning at the school I currently teach at. It’s computer based so not really a curriculum but great for ESL. I’ve seen growth using it with my Els

I’ve used language for learning/thinking/writing too. It a direct instruction/scripted program. It doesn’t really integrate with classroom instruction, but I kind of like that. It focuses on building vocabulary and the variety of sentence structures students can understand and use.

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