Working with students in your classroom who do not speak English as their first language does not necessarily require you to craft entirely different lesson plans than those used with English-speaking students; instead, you need to know how to adapt materials for the ESL student.

Students who speak other languages are just as capable of participating in the activities and completing the tasks as the students who do have English as their first language. In fact, based on their culture or personal history, some of them might be able to understand the concepts more clearly.

For ESL students it's not the subject matter or ideas they cannot learn or understand; they are on the same page and have the same challenges learning content as the native English speaking students. For ESL students it's the language in which the subject matter is being presented that can impede their understanding.

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