Visual aids that assist teachers in demonstrating relationships between words and concepts.
What is maps, charts, graphs, and/or pictures?
100
Cooperative learning strategy designed to optimize the learning of the assigned task and sharing that learning with other students. Involves small groups and includes presentation to the class
What is "Corners?"
200
TESOL
What is Teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages?
200
Includes increased comprehension, simple sentences, some errors in speech.
What is Speech Emergence Stage (Level III)
200
Includes the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
What is the Whole Language Approach?
200
Using authentic objects from a culture or manipulatives to help provide comprehensible input in a second language.
What is Realia?
200
Strategy that helps students develop their own ideas as well as build on ideas that came from co-learners. Involves reflection, discussion, revisions, and sharing.
What is Think, Pair, Share?
300
DOE
What is the Department of Education?
300
Includes very good comprehension and use of more complex sentences.
What is Intermediate Fluency Stage (Level IV)
300
Student produce language in response to first-hand, multi-sensorial experiences.
What is the Language Experience Approach?
300
Using audiovisual media to help improve a language art session.
What are visual media (videos, films, YouTube, etc.)?
300
Planned learning experience in the community for the student group to observe, study, and participate in a real-life setting, using the community as a laboratory.
What are Field Trips?
400
TEFL
What is Teaching English as a Foreign Language?
400
Includes limited comprehension and one or two word responses.
What is Early Production Stage (Level II)
400
Students acquire new vocabulary through experiences and associations.
What is The Natural Approach?
400
Using written materials and pictures to demonstrate main ideas.
What is Captioning?
400
Written conversation between the student and the teacher (private).
What is a Dialogue Journal?
500
LES
What is Limited English Speaking?
500
Includes listening, pointing, moving/mime, drawing, choosing, circling.
What is Pre-production stage (Level I)
500
For material to be meaningful, it must be clearly related to existing knowledge that the learner already possesses.
What is Activating Prior Knowledge?
500
Activities used to motivate students and assist in reinforcing and revisiting content area concepts while acquiring English pronunciation and intonation patterns.
What is using music/songs/books?
500
Cooperative learning strategy whereby each group member is assigned a section/part of the material to study in order to later share information within the group.