Goal 2, Standard 2

To use English to achieve academically in all content areas: Students will use English to obtain, process, construct, and provide subject matter information in spoken and written form

Why? All-encompasing

1=social

Cummins BICS v CALP

3=language subtleties

SDAIE or SIOP

CALLA-content, language, strategies

Why?

Practical

Great Need

Accountability

Results

Prior Knowledge

Scaffolding

Comprehensible input

Learning Strategies

Interaction/Opportunities for practice

Multiple and Alternative Assessment

Prior Knowledge and Scaffolding

School Experiences-rural or city, literate in native language, amount, socioeconomic status, public or private

“Funds of Knowledge”/ examples

Introducing material-what they know of the content? China Powerpoint-bilingual dictionaries/expert

Providing choices taps into these

What they know of the language? vocabulary, grammar, reading and writing in English and native language, (speaking and listening develop more quickly)

What kind of strategies are they also using? Looking at pictures, focusing on captures, decoding skills, sorting

Comprehensible Imput-Krashen C+1

TPR-Ants

Realia

Representations

Pictures- on computer, from books and magazines, picture cards and cutouts, charts and maps SRA’s=thematic

Frontload vocabulary-through TPR, pictures, or even translation

Questioning for higher order thinking skills

Learning strategies-Active learners are better learners!

Learning strategies transfer to new tasks!

Graphic organizers to visualize, manipulate, elaborate, compare, summarize, analyze, retain, and sequence(Inspiration) info-gives language a function

Making Predictions