Teaching Academic Vocabulary to ELL's

One great way to teach ELL students vocabulary is by using Marzano’s 6 steps. His steps include description, restating, drawing, activities, discussion and games. All these steps are beneficial for ELL students because it gives them multimodalities for learning. For example, the student gets to draw a picture, which gives them a visual. Using all these steps gives the student the best chance of truly understanding the vocabulary word.