Providing Comprehensible Input
The game "Simon Says" is an example of this language teaching technique.
Total Physical Response
Helping students to familiarize themselves with what to expect regarding chapters, headings, subheadings, table of contents, index, and other text features
What is preview the textbook?
The teacher poses a question or problem and asks students to choose from responses posted on each wall of the classroom. Students group together by those choices, discuss together, and then explain their thinking to the class.
What is Four Corners?
Basic, everyday words; academic English words used across various subjects and contexts; highly specific terms
What are Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 Vocabulary?
Teacher and student engage in mutual, informal, back and forth written correspondence about various topics
What is a dialogue journal?
Rephrasing, avoiding idioms and slang, checking for comprehension and giving extra wait time are all components of this
What is adjusting your teacher talk?
A pre-reading or pre-viewing strategy which activates prior knowledge and builds interest and curiosity about the topic through questions before reading/viewing and then again after reading/viewing
What is an anticipation guide?
This activity supports each group member to clearly focus on a specific task and ensures participation by all group members as they work together to complete a group activity.
What is cooperative group learning with assigned roles?
Helps students grow their vocabulary through seeing the connections between root words that can be combined together with various prefixes and suffixes. The words often represent different parts of speech such as noun, verb, adjective.
What is teaching word families?
Students read any material of their choice during a designated time period at school every day
What is free voluntary reading or sustained silent reading (SSR)?
Students engage in an experience together and then collectively compose a story about it.
What is the language experience approach?
A frontloading strategy to assist students when they encounter unfamiliar words in a new reading
What is pre-teaching key vocabulary?
Each student in a pair receives a different set of information. Students need to combine the information to answer questions or solve a problem.
What is a information gap or barrier activity?
Providing sentences or a paragraph that has strategically chosen missing words
What is cloze procedure?
These key visuals help communicate and organize ideas and concepts such as chronology, comparison and contrast, reasons and consequences with fewer language requirements
What are graphic organizers?
An individual learner creates a booklet for categorizing and learning new vocabulary according to their needs.
What is a personal dictionary?
In pairs, students consider a topic, then write and talk about it before engaging in a whole class discussion
What is think-write-pair-share?
This cooperative learning strategy enables each "home" group to become experts on a specific part of a topic, and then regroup with experts from other groups to help each other cover all aspects of the topic
What is jigsaw reading?
This four-celled graphic organizer helps students to analyze words and build vocabulary with a definition, characteristics, and an example and non-example of the word
What is a Frayer chart?
The teacher models aloud reading strategies or demonstrates the strategies that good writers use to plan and organize writing while talking about their thought process
What is a teacher think-aloud?
Prepare this for your learners so they can more effectively follow and record information from an oral presentation or textbook reading
What is a note-taking scaffold?
Students brainstorm everything they know about a topic using an interconnected graphic organizer
What is a concept web?
Students form two circles or lines and discuss a question or problem with the student opposite. The line or circle moves one person over with each new question.
What are inside/outside circles?
Use this strategy to differentiate academic tasks for various levels of English proficiency, as well as for students' various styles of learning and interests
What are choice boards?
Providing this supports students in organizing their ideas in writing, as well as supplying specific required language for a writing task
What is a paragraph writing scaffold?