Academic Language
What term refers to the specific vocabulary and language structures used in academic content areas?
What is Academic Language?
This attention signal involves the teacher saying, "1, 2, 3, eyes on me!" and students respond with "1, 2, eyes on you!"
What is Call and Response?
When a teacher demonstrates a task step-by-step, this teaching strategy is known as what?
What is Modeling?
An activating strategy at the start of a lesson is often called a ___.
What is a hook?
Essential questions are typically ___ questions, meaning they don’t have a simple answer and promote deep thinking.
What is Open-Ended?
Academic language includes vocabulary as well as these types of phrases often used to clarify relationships or ideas.
What is Transition Words?
Clapping a specific rhythm for students to repeat back to you is an example of this kind of signal.
What is Non-verbal Attention Signal?
Scaffolding involves providing this kind of support to help students gradually gain independence.
What is temporary Support or Gradual Release of Responsibility?
Which strategy helps students organize what they know, what they want to know, and what they learned during a lesson?
What is K-W-L Chart?
What is the main purpose of an essential question?
What is to guide students' understanding and focus on key concepts?
True or False: Academic language is only used in written assignments?
What is False?
What is the purpose of using attention signals in the classroom?
What is to refocus students’ attention on the teacher or task?
This popular model of instruction follows the phases "I do, we do, you do."
What is Gradual Release of Responsibility?
Activating strategies help students make ___ between new information and what they already know.
What is Connections?
True or False: Essential questions should be revisited throughout the unit.
What is True?
When students discuss concepts using academic language, they are developing skills in this broader category of classroom activity.
What is Classroom Discourse?
This visual tool, such as raising a hand, is an attention signal that doesn’t require speaking.
What is Silent Signal?
True or False: Scaffolding is only necessary for younger students.
What is False?
This type of activity, often used as an activating strategy, involves students predicting what they will learn.
What is Anticipation Guide?
How do people adapt to change?” is an example of an essential question for which subject?
What is Social Studies?
What is one technique that can help English Language Learners better understand academic language.
What is Visual aids, sentence frames, or bilingual glossaries?
Name one attention signal that can be effectively used in a virtual classroom setting.
What is Using emojis, typing “Ready” in the chat, or virtual hand-raising (any answer is acceptable)
Providing students with sentence stems or graphic organizers are examples of this type of teaching strategy.
What is Scaffolding?
True or False: Activating strategies should only be used at the beginning of a unit, not in every lesson.
What is False?
This teaching approach uses essential questions to push students toward higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, such as analyzing, evaluating, and creating their own understanding of big ideas.
What is Inquiry-Based Learning?