In Content Strategies for English Language Learners Reiss discusses the six theoretical principles of many famous theorists. Reiss begins by introducing Jim Cummins' concepts of academic and social language and how teachers; we should understand them and use them in classrooms to become better teachers of ELL students. Throughout his theory he emphasizes that social language develops much more rapidly than academic language. Academic language uses a higher vocabulary, high-level synonyms of words common to students, which makes the language more difficult to understand. There were some ideas expressed in the text to help address the learning of both of these languages ​​for the ELL, such as providing pictures with text/words to help provide clues, fully incorporating academic language throughout the context. Another example of how to do this would be the general idea of ​​scaffolding your students. Cummins provided a framework of quadrants for examples of cognitively demanding and low-demanding activities and content-reduced, context-embedded activities. Teachers can use scaffolding to adapt content for ELL students to change the level of difficulty (quadrants) so they can better understand the academic task at hand. I found this initial information on Cummins concepts very informative. Although, during our lessons, I learned that learning social language happens more quickly than academic language, this step helped make it more worthwhile why this is the case since the text includes distinct examples and instances. Also, after reading this and hearing some ideas you can implement in the classroom to bridge the gap between social and academic language learning spans, I feel more confident that I can use these strategies…middle of the paper. ... ..a new side of them to get to know them better. All these ideas I've heard are great. I'm not sure if it's still really legal to make home visits, given that this article was published in the 1990s, but overall I'm sure the idea would provide teachers with a great deal of new information about students' lifestyles and about the reasons for their behavior, etc. Everything I read from these two chapters and the article was very helpful to me and really opened my eyes to new ideas and thoughts about teaching. It's crazy to think that so much of what I read in these articles had never crossed my mind. I am excited to take this information learned from these texts and try to apply it by observing and helping in my applications course. I will also definitely apply and add this new knowledge to my repertoire as a future teacher.