Guiding Questions
Name who is responsible for teaching the language and vocabulary across content areas
Who is the teacher/educator
Name one benefit/type of opportunity associated with the arts, music, and physical education. (Multiple answers acceptable)
What is reflection, high-order thinking, expression, and communication
Subject that provides students with knowledge, thinking skills and experiences that will help them grow into effective and informed citizens
What is Social Studies?
This subject’s emphasis and hands on learning and tangible concepts can make it easier for ELLs to grasp
What is Science?
This form of literature may be used to supplement a student’s math vocabulary.
What are math-themed books?
Name the term for tailoring instruction to the unique needs of each student
What is differentiated instruction
State what makes this category of content perhaps less overwhelming for ELL students.
What are less language demands
ELL’s may be challenged by these terms due to their abstract language.
What is government/ democracy/freedom/ poverty/revolution? (can be any abstract concept)
This method of teaching science emphasizes skills like forming hypotheses, interpreting results, communicating ideas, and working in a group to solve problems. It emphasizes doing science.
What is inquiry-based science?
ELLs who are highly skilled in math without this type of knowledge struggle with word problems.
What is vocabulary knowledge?
Name the approach used in classrooms to allow crossover across content areas.
What is thematic approach
Name one of the deep questions that can be explored through the arts.
What are the questions Who am I? What must I do? Where am I going?
This form of comprehensible instruction shows Martin Luther King giving the “I Have a Dream” Speech
What is visual instruction?
To assist in science teaching to ELLs, teachers often provide these to their ELL students
What are vocab charts?
This type of activity in class may help develop a student’s vocabulary.
What is role-play?
Name the type of objectives that need to be adapted to each individual students’ proficiency level and needs.
What are Language objectives
Explain a reason why this category receives less attention in schools.
What are high stake tests
This form of comprehensible instruction would be represented in an in-class debate or election process
What is role-playing?
To make textbooks easier to understand for ELLs, teachers can do this for their students
What are to provide outlines and graphic organizers / let students learn by experiencing and discovering concepts
This approach integrates the students’ culture into mathematics.
What is to connect math to their own lives in the families, communities, and the world?
Name the tool educators should use regularly to assess their students’ individual needs.
What is formative assessment
State the amount of children and adolescents obesity affected in 2018.
What is 13.7 million
State the support for social studies instruction represented within the Non-fiction book titled The Children of Topaz: The Story of Japanese American Internment Camp by Michael O. Tunnel and George Chilcoat.
What is relevant text material that represents the cultural diversity of students?
To assist in inquiry-based science, teachers can ensure their lesson plans and activities involve these strategies.
What are clearly articulated language objectives and activities especially designed for everyone to participate?
These standards benefit students who begin school in the U.S. at an early age but are detrimental to newcomer ELLs.
What are Common Core standards?