ELLs in school
Instruction
Comprehensible Input
Objectives
Miscellaneous
100
Age of arrival, literacy in L1, previous/formal schooling, and quality of instruction.
What are some of the characteristics that influence the success of ELLs in school.
100
A research-based and validated instructional model addressing the needs of English language learners.
What is SIOP?
100
Rate and enunciation as well as the complexity.
What is speech in the context of the SIOP model?
100
A sentence defining learning goals for students.
What is an objective?
100
Through explicit instruction, comprehension strategies, and repeating in context (writing and highlighting)
How can vocabulary be taught?
200
This is the language students need in order to think critically, understand and learn new concepts, and interact and communicate in academic contexts. It takes 5 to 7 years to develop.
How long does it take to develop academic language?
200
An approach to teaching English language learners which integrates language and content instruction for the purpose of making instructional decisions based on the extent to which students have mastered the lesson objectives.
What is effective sheltered instruction?
200
If you use these common sayings that do not have exact translations create difficult to understand for an ELL who is trying to make sense of a new language, you need to explain them.
What are idioms?
200
The following a good example of: The students will write sentences explaining how 3 routes got their names and explain how word structure gives clues to meaning?
What is a language objective?
200
Mnemonics, previewing, highlighting and underlining are examples of this.
What are cognitive learning strategies.
300
Games, semantic maps and word walls are ways to do this.
What is reviewing vocabulary?
300
Gestures and body language are strategies falling within this SIOP element.
What is comprehensible input?
300
These words, which are similar in English and another language, are a good way of providing comprehensible input.
What are cognates?
300
To build background knowledge, teachers need to link this to the students.
What are previous experiences?
300
Predicting and inferring, summarizing and synthesizing and visualizing are examples of this.
What are metacognitive learning strategies?
400
Between 90 and 100%.
What is the percentage of time that according to the SIOP model students should be engaged in class?
400
Simplifying the language of the test and reducing the number of questions are related to this.
What are test modifications/linguistic accommodations for ELLs?
400
Step-by-step, written, modeled and with a finished product refer to this.
What are clear explanations of academic tasks?
400
Before the lesson begins this is placed in the classroom where students can see and read to help them focus on the purpose of the lesson.
What is content objectives?
400
Breaking words into component parts, paraphrasing and deducing are examples of this.
What are language learning strategies?
500
Students data collected at the end of the lesson.
What is summative assessment?
500
Integrating reading, writing, listening, and speaking throughout the day practices
What is the best way for teachers to create opportunities for ELLs to practice and use all four language processes?
500
Think-alouds, reinforcing contextual definitions(key vocabulary), pace/structure of speech, and providing correct pronunciations by repeating students' responses are examples of this.
What is verbal scaffolding?
500
Opportunities to practice with hands on materials and/or manipulatives.
How is the best way for English Language Learners to make rapid progress in mastering content objectives?
500
Teacher-centered, teacher-assisted, peer-assisted, student centered is the order of progression to structure ______from a beginner – intermediate – advanced – advanced/high proficiency level of language development:
What is structure scaffolding?
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