Inside this Toolkit, you’ll step into three real classrooms and watch the same Teacher-Made Big Book strategy used across K/1, 2/3, and 4/5. The strategy stays the same, but the language and vocabulary grow with your students.
You’ll also see the four Linguistic Supports that I use in every lesson because oral language is the foundation of all reading and writing. These supports help your language learners speak with confidence so they can read and write with purpose.
Classroom Video Observations
Watch how the Teacher Made Big Book comes to life at different grade levels. Notice how I layer in oral language routines that help every learner participate.
Downloadable Linguistic Supports Guide
A quick, easy-to-use overview of the four supports you’ll see in action. These are the routines that make any strategy more accessible for multilingual learners.
Printable Note Taking Guide
Guided questions and a place for your own observations as you watch each classroom video. Look for moments where students talk, respond, repeat, and use academic language.
A Look Into My Teaching Approach
This Toolkit is a small snapshot of what you’ll find inside my full resources intentional planning, videos, templates, and real strategies you can use right away.
Because no matter your grade level, age group, content area, or teaching style…
your language learners need predictable supports embedded into every lesson.
These are powerful language support routines that you can use in ANY lesson like math, science, reading, writing, Shared Reading, GLAD strategies, you name it.
These routines lower student anxiety, create safety, get ALL students talking, and help your language learners build academic vocabulary naturally.
How to get students to choral-call without fear
How to use turn-and-talk effectively (and why raised hands actually shut ELLs down)
How to increase participation without putting students on the spot
How to build trust, rapport, and engagement through predictable language routines
You’ll also see videos of each routine in REAL classrooms so you can watch how it actually works and use it tomorrow.
If you want to go beyond seeing the strategy and actually learn how to use it in your own classroom, the Gladly Engaged Shared Reading Toolkit is your next step. It shows you how to take these language supports and apply them to shared reading using your own curriculum, chants, big books, and lifted texts.