Multilingual learners
One lesson.
Three proficiency levels.
Same thinking.
Cedarboard rewrites your lesson for newcomers and developing English speakers — changing the way in, never the demand.
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The room you actually teach
Two students arrived this month with almost no English. Four more are getting there but lose the thread in a dense paragraph. The rest are ready for the grade-level text. It is one lesson, one period, and one of you.
So you do what everyone does: you simplify for the whole class and quietly lower the ceiling, or you spend Sunday rewriting the same worksheet three times.
Neither is the job. The job is to keep the thinking where it belongs and change how each student gets to it.
How it works
1
Tell it who's in the room
Counts, never names: how many are new to English, how many are developing, which home languages are in the class. That's all it needs, and all it will ever ask for.
2
Pick the group
Any handout can be written for “New to English” or “Developing English.” Word banks, sentence frames and matching formats for newcomers; glossed vocabulary and starters for developing speakers.
3
The demand doesn't move
Same objectives, same vocabulary, same standard of thinking. A quiz score measures whether they learned the science — not how much English they had that week.
Look at what stays
A reading passage Cedarboard wrote for New to English, from a Grade 4 lesson on equivalent fractions.
A fraction shows part of a whole. A whole is one full thing. We cut the whole into equal parts. Equal parts are the same size.
The top number is the numerator. The numerator shows how many parts we have. The bottom number is the denominator.
Two fractions can be equivalent. Equivalent means the same amount. It has a different name. 1/2 and 2/4 are equivalent.
Check what you understood
1. Read the word. Circle the meaning.
numerator — top number / bottom number
3. Fill in the blank. Use the word bank.
Word bank: equal parts
We cut the rectangle into ______________.
Every piece of math vocabulary is still there — numerator, denominator, equivalent, equal parts. The sentences carrying them got shorter. Nothing about the mathematics got easier.
Real output from Cedarboard, shown as generated.
What you can make from any lesson
- ✓Leveled reading passages — the lesson's content at the right density, with comprehension checks and a separate answer key.
- ✓Vocabulary support — key terms with a plain definition, a sentence frame, a Draw-it box, and the home-language word.
- ✓Bilingual glossaries — the lesson's terms in English and one home language, side by side.
- ✓Family notes that go home bilingual by construction: English first, then the home language, in one document — because a teacher should never send home a page they can't read.
- ✓Language access on any quiz or worksheet: plain directions, word banks beside items, frames in the answer spaces.
- ✓Content in Spanish, Chinese, French, Portuguese and Arabic — plus Haitian Creole and Vietnamese for glossaries and family notes.
- ✓The printed page never says who it's for. Only the filing name does, so no student holds a sheet that marks them out.
Built to work without student information
Cedarboard never asks for student names, grades, or records — there is nowhere to put them. Class needs are counted, never identified. That is a decision about how the product is built, not a setting.
Your Monday lesson, ready for everyone in the room.
Cedarboard opens soon. Waitlist members are first through the door — and every new account starts with a 14-day Pro trial, no card required.