Drawp Partners with the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) to Provide Digital Versions of English Language Learning Scaffolding Tools
The Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) has partnered with Drawp for School to provide interactive digital versions of their English language learning scaffolding tools for English learners. These tools are organized by proficiency level and provide teachers editable sentence frames and questions that can be tailored to any content. Teachers can access any lesson plan from the Drawp Resource Marketplace and then simply add sentence frames to assignments to help guide English learners.
These tools do not replace interaction in the classroom, but using Drawp with LACOE’s useful scaffolding tools allows for enhanced engagement. For example, with Drawp, teachers and students can add Voice Sticker recorded notes to the LACOE sentence frames as a way to practice fluency and confirm pronunciation, intonation, and understanding. Students can also use Drawp’s digital drawing tools to illustrate concepts.
Drawp has produced a short video to demonstrate a sample lesson plan using the LACOE scaffolding tools:
Check out these PowerPoint presentations below with trainer notes for each set of tools: Emerging, Bridging, and Expanding levels useful for professional development:
- Sample Lesson Plan For Emerging Level English Learners Using Drawp and a Tool For Scaffolding Instruction (LACOE)
- Sample Lesson Plan For Bridging Level English Learners Using Drawp and a Tool For Scaffolding Instruction (LACOE)
- Sample Lesson Plan For Expanding Level English Learners Using Drawp and a Tool For Scaffolding Instruction (LACOE)
In applying the LACOE scaffolding tools with Drawp, English language learners (ELLs) benefit in all language domains:
- Oral practice with frames
- Listening practice with questions
- Writing prompt with frames
- Reading practice with support
- Scaffold support in multiple languages
Teachers also benefit from using the LACOE tools with Drawp:
- Organized by Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Filtered by Narrative, Expository and Argumentative/Persuasive types of questions and sentence frames
- A bank of strategies are linked to each level
- A bank of products or assessments are included for each level
- Scaffold support can be turned on in multiple languages
If you have any questions about using Drawp for School and the LACOE scaffolding tools for English language learners, please email school@moondropapps.com.
- Julie Brannon