How can we plan our lessons that will enable students to make connections to the new material being taught?
* Content and language objectives must be clearly defined, displayed and reviewed with students.
*Content concepts must be appropriate for students age and educational background.
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Define Student Strategies for Success?
*Scaffolding techniques that is consistently used to assist and support students' understanding.
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What is comprehensible input?
*Speech appropriate for students' proficiency levels.
*Clear explanation of academic tasks.
* A variety of technique used to make contents concepts clear.
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What is practice and applications?
Providing hands-on materials and opportunities for both ELL and fluent English speakers to practice and apply concepts learned, and opportunities to integrate reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.
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What is review and assessment?
Providing regular feedback to students on their output during lesson and after the lesson.
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What are some other ways we can prepare our lessons so students can adapt to them?
*Supplementary materials used to a high degree.
*Adaptation of content to all levels of student proficiency.
* Meaningful activities that integrate lesson concepts with language practice opportunities.
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What is split page note taking strategy?
*Before reading, students write who, what, when, where, or why questions on the left side of the page and after reading,
*students write answers on the right side.
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Give an example of using comprehensible input in the classroom.
*Teachers can use vocabulary picture puzzles-hand gestures, facial expressions, and whole body movement to illustrate concepts or vocabulary words. Students emulate the movements.
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what should teachers do for practice application in the classroom?
*Divide content into meaningful short chunks.
*Keep practice time short (10-5 minutes).
*Review material periodically from previous learned content and give students immediate feedback.
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What are some ways teachers can review key vocabulary with students?
*Relating new words to previously learned words.
*Drawing the attention of the students to verb tense, parts of speech and sentence structure.
*Repeating and reinforcing language patterns so that learning words becomes automatic.
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What is building background?
*The teachers have to help the students making purposeful connections to prior learning, by teaching the most important vocabulary, and by trying to connect the content to something the student may have already experienced.
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What is one strategy we can use for English language learners in the classroom?
*Use cooperative learning strategy- allow ELL to work in small groups with fluent English speakers. This will help to build their vocabulary skills, and social skills.
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What is effective lesson delivery?
*Lesson is paced to accommodate the students and keep the students engaged for at least 90% of the class period.
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How can teachers help students to learn new content and abstract concepts?
*Have students to keep personal journals.
*Making and /or playing a game for reviewing content (Bingo, Jeopardy etc.).
*Writing test questions or creating math problems for another student to solve.
*Teaching a concept to another student.
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How can teachers scaffold students learning?
*Paraphrasing-rephrase a sentence to help in clarifying a word.
*Systematic word study-write, say, see, draw, sing and act out the words.
*Have students create word study book or personal dictionaries by writing frequently used words, and ideas.
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How can teachers build on students background?
*Key vocabulary emphasized (e.g., introduced, written, repeated, and highlighted for students to see).
*Links explicitly made between past learning and new concepts.
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What are some ways we can provide interaction in the classroom?
*Providing sufficient wait time for students to respond.
* Providing ample opportunities for students to clarify key concepts in their native language.
* Giving students frequent opportunities for interaction and discussion.
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What does an effective lesson delivery include?
*Effective lessons clearly state for English Language Learners both the content standard and the language standard.
*Includes research-based strategies for listening, speaking, reading, writing, and ELL Advocacy from experienced ELL students.
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How can teachers make abstract concepts more concrete for students?
*Encourage students to discuss, interact, and work together.
*Making and using organizers.
*Solving problems in cooperative groups.
*Partnering students for a project.
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What is assessment? What does informal assessment involve?
*Assessment is the gathering and synthesizing of information concerning students learning.
*Involves on-the-spot and on-going opportunities to determine the extent of students learning.
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What are some of the steps to building a background?
Give one example of how to use interaction in the classroom.
*Find your partner-
Each student is given a vocabulary card with either a definition or a term written on it.
Students are asked to find the matching card. Then students share with the class the pairs they have made.
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What is an activity for comprehensible input?
Similar words and opposite words - use word walls that include varies of reading level words that are similar in spelling and pronunciation in both English and Spanish.
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What are the language skills?
Reading
Writing
Speaking
Listening
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Authentic Assessment?
*Applies to real life contexts
*Is multidimensional (writing, interviews, models, drawings, observations, projects, and group responses).
*Uses rubrics to define the levels of learning and is shared with students and parents.