Newcomers' First 90 Days Using Lingolift
Within the first 90 days of welcoming newcomers and emergent multilinguals into your classroom, you’ll lay the foundation to help your students with English language learning. Lingolift provides content and sequence suggestions that are easily customizable for your students’ individual learning goals.
Learn how to support your students develop and practice all four domains of language every day with Lingolift.
The First 90 Days: Using Lingolift with Newcomers and Emergent Multilinguals
Newcomers and emergent multilinguals all come from different educational backgrounds. Depending on the amount of formal schooling they have had, their literacy level in their home languages, and many other factors, your newcomers and emergent multilinguals will approach the content in Lingolift in different ways.
For students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE), or students who have limited exposure to educational technology, learning how to access Lingolift on a computer may be one of their first lessons. Highly schooled multilinguals will be ready to take advantage of translanguaging resources built into the platform.
The key to meeting all these students’ diverse needs equally is flexibility of instruction. Lingolift supports teaching survival, social, and academic language to newcomers and emergent multilinguals, and is flexible enough to address your students’ individual English language learning needs.
Teacher Testimonial
“One of my favorite things about Lingolift is their 90-day guide. When I got three new students in the middle of the school year, this guide helped me get started. In the first month, the 90-day guide has students learning 300 new words, and by the second month, they get another 40 words. You can’t get that anywhere else!”
– ELD Teacher, Texas
First 90 Days: Month One
- Weeks 1-2: Introduce Lingolift to the whole class by doing a video lesson together. You can introduce students to the Watch, Learn, Speak instructional video sequence to get them familiar with how Lingolift works. We recommend repeating this process as many times as needed to ensure familiarity with the platform.
- Weeks 2-4: Make time to complete two collections per day over the next three weeks, or customize to your schedule. Follow the Lingolift Teacher’s Guides for ready-to-use resources and activities which are easily customizable to fit your newcomers and emergent multilinguals’ English language learning needs.
Recommended Collection Sequence
- Greeting Collection
- Introductions Collection
First 90 Days: Month Two
Shift your focus towards students independently completing Collections that you assign. Use the worksheets linked in our Teacher’s Guides.
We also recommend familiarizing you and your students with our Texthelp Toolbar and video player dictionary supports. Teachers love how these built-in supports make Lingolift content more accessible for students.
Recommended Collection Sequence
Week 1: Daily Routines, Nouns 1, Interests, Verbs 1, Chatting with Friends
Week 2: Sports, Adverbs 1, Pets, Articles, Nature, Conjunctions
Week 3: Cooking, Nouns 2, Travel Basic, Verbs 2, In the Community, Adjectives 2
Week 4: Jobs 1, Adverbs 2, Jobs 2, Prepositions: Time, Outdoor Fun, Pronouns 1
Teacher Testimonial
“I really like the interactive language exercises. They combine vocabulary building with real-life scenarios, making learning engaging and practical. The immediate feedback provided helps reinforce understanding and retention. Students have said they like that they can click on any word during the videos to receive additional information to support learning.”
– ELD Teacher, North Carolina
First 90 Days: Month Three
Now you can facilitate a mix of teacher-led lessons and teacher-assigned Collections. Engage your newcomers and emergent multilinguals in their English language learning by adding a student choice component into your weekly routine.
Recommended Collection Sequence
Weeks 1- 4: Teacher-Led Academic collection, Teacher-Assigned collection (new or previously assigned), Student-Directed (3-5 video lessons from the library to complete independently).