Levine, L. N., Lukens, L., & Smallwood, B. A. (2013). The GO TO strategies: Scaffolding options for teachers of English language learners, K-12. For Project EXCELL, a partnership between the University of Missouri- Kansas City and North Kansas City Schools, funded by the US Department of Education, PR Number T195N070316.
The GO TO Strategies: Scaffolding Options for Teachers of English Language Learners, K-12 is an upshot of the Project EXCELL professional development. This resource is highly efficient as it suggests 78 great strategies that were developed in consultation with teachers around the subject area of English Language Learners, ELL teachers, and special education teachers. Strategies offered in this resource focus on five core principles which are insinuated to be essential for academic progress for ELLs. These five principles focus on academic language, literacy, and vocabulary; Link background knowledge and culture to learning; Increase comprehensible input and language output; Promote classroom interaction, and lastly stimulate higher order thinking and the use of learning strategies.