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English Language Learners
Oral Language Development
The Reading Process
The Writing Process
Best Teaching Practices
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According the Reading Rockets video "Teaching ELLs to Read", it's important for English Language Learners to have conversations with these kind of students to help with their development with the English Language.
What are native English speakers?
100
According to Noam Chomsky all human beings are born with this that allows humans to learn language.
What is a language acquisition devise (LAD)?
100
When a child learns the sounds that letters make in words they are demonstrating this.
What is phonemic awareness?
100
According the Writing Continuum this is the stage when a child begins to seek feedback on their own writing.
What is the bridging stage?
100
This is the teaching practice in which teachers teach lessons to help students build background knowledge so they are able to comprehend the content of a new concept that is being taught.
What is scaffolding?
200
According to several case studies it takes this many years for children to become proficient in another language?
What is 5-7 years?
200
According to a qualitative study conducted by Dr. Todd Risley a child who is spoken to often and read to on a daily basis acquires 8,000 words when they enter kindergarten opposed to children who were infrequently spoken to and read to acquired this many words?
What is 4,000?
200
On the Reading Continuum this is the stage where a child is at when they begin to read chapter books.
What is the expanding stage?
200
This is the researcher that developed six stages of writing including stage one which is concepts of signs.
Who is Marie Clay?
200
This is an effective way for teachers to model and practice reading skills and strategies in a small group setting.
What is guided reading?
300
According to Rico and Weed these are the two major factors in second language acquisition.
What is Psychological and Sociocultural?
300
According to Skinner language is learned through constant verbal input shaped by this.
What is reinforcement?
300
This describes when a child is trying to solve an unknown word and they read "helps" when the word is "help" which results in them this kind of mistake.
What is a syntax miscue?
300
Many writing research authors including Regie Routman, and Zemelman, Daniels and Hyde have found that in order for students to develop their writing they need to consider these two dynamics everything they write. These dynamics are who is my _________ and what is my _____________.
What are audience and purpose.?
300
According to Zemelman, Daniels and Hyde this is the type of instruction teachers should do less of.
What is whole group teacher-directed lessons? (Lectures)
400
The social emotional factors that ELLs encounter when learning a second language are attitudes toward language 1 and 2, attitudes toward the teacher and the classroom, self-esteem, anxiety and this.
What is motivation?
400
This is the process in which children assign meaning to words.
What is fast mapping?
400
On the Reading Continuum it's the stage where a child begins to read his or her own writing.
What is the developing stage?
400
Rico and Weed point out that these are the three general stages of writing.
What are planning, writing and editing?
400
According to Zemelman, Daniels and Hyde this is the type of instruction teachers should do more of.
What is student directed or cooperative lessons?
500
When an English Language Learner is beginning to emphasize content area vocabulary they are at this stage of learning a second language?
What is the speech emergence stage?
500
In this method of language development students are immersed in the target language through listening to discourse and responding to questions?
What is the direct method?
500
This type of reading that was discussed in the video "From Babbling to Books", children are put in the role of the story teller and the adult plays the role of the listener.
What is dialogic reading?
500
This stage is described as the first time when a child sees themselves as a writer.
What is the emerging stage?
500
This is a teaching approach that allows the teacher to give information in small "building blocks" thus deemphasizing the "big picture" of the lesson.
What is the holistic teaching approach?