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(even if you're not sure where to start)

Scaffold for ELL's with ease & flexibility!

If you’re here, you’re an educator dedicated to providing the VERY best for your early elementary English Language Learners. I’m so glad you found us!

I can help you support your multilingual learners!

Teaching Resources

Save time with my ready-to-customize, versatile teaching resources!

Teaching Blog

The home for English Language Learner teaching strategies, ideas, and a peek into my own elementary ELL classroom!

Book Recommendations

These book recommendations center rich, culturally-relevant read-aloud texts that I’ve used year after year!

Hi, I'm Kate!

I help dedicated teachers of English Language Learners (ELL’s) scaffold and differentiated confidently.

You’re in the right place if:

You want the best for your ELL students, but don’t know what that looks like.
You are tired of creating resources from scratch!
You are looking for a community of similarly-minded teachers!

Make sure to grab your FREE ELL-focused editable graphic organizers-my gift to you!

Why Lit By Learning?

If you’re ready to go deeper with your early elementary multilingual learners, you’re in the right place! Lit by Learning is all about providing the very best possible for English Language Learners (ELL’s) – WITHOUT needing to reinvent the wheel or start from scratch.

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How do I imbed language scaffolding strategies for ELL’s?

These language scaffolding strategies for ELL’s are perfect to imbed in teaching materials like graphic organizers!

What sheltered instructional strategies for English language learners actually work?

Elementary teachers, these sheltered instructional strategies for English Language Learners can be used all year long!

How we planned our engaging IB cross-curricular Sharing the Planet inquiry!

IB teachers, take a behind-the-scenes into the planning of our cross-curricular Sharing the Planet inquiry for second grade students! See how we weave in standards from across subject areas for this inquiry-based exploration of Habitats, Plants and Animals!