Age of arrival, literacy in L1 and previous schooling.
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
You were stuck with him for three hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Who is Dr. Gonzalez?
200
He did not like to be a teacher so he switched to a far more remunerating career.
Who is Walter White?
200
An approach to teaching English language learners which integrates language and content instruction.
What is sheltered instruction?
200
If you use these, which are difficult to understand for an ELL, you need to explain them.
What are idioms?
200
Observable and measurable.
What are the characteristics of objectives?
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, summarazing 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 enganged in class?
400
Simplifying the language of the test and reducing the number of questions are related to this.
What are test modifications for ELLs?
400
Step-by-step, modeled and with a finished product refer to this.
What are clear explanations of academic tasks?
400
The concept of scaffolding was developed based on this psychologist's work (whose theoretical framework was based on the impact that social interactions have in the development of cognition).
Who is Vygotsky?
400
Breaking words into component parts, paraphrasing and deducing are examples of this.
What are language learning strategies?
500
Data collected at the end of the lesson.
What is summative assessment?
500
This kind of grouping configuration is best for providing instruction and reviewing.
What is whole-group?
500
Think-alouds, reinforcing contextual definitions, and providing correct pronunciations by repeating students' responses are examples of this.
What is verbal scaffolding?
500
Participating in class activities for at least 90% of the class time.
What is student engagement?
500
The difference between what a child can accomplish alone and what he or she can accomplish with the help of a more experienced individual.