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English Language Learners. Networking Session February 2, 2012. Agenda. Looking Back Cross Curricular Literacy Scaffolding in the Quadrants Strategies, Activities & Evaluation Reading Speaking Writing Looking Ahead. Looking Back. Alberta Education Benchmarks
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English Language Learners Networking Session February 2, 2012
Agenda Looking Back Cross Curricular Literacy Scaffolding in the Quadrants Strategies, Activities & Evaluation Reading Speaking Writing Looking Ahead
Looking Back Alberta Education Benchmarks http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/eslapb/index.html Videos of Levels 1 through 5 http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/eslapb/video.html English Express http://advancededucation.gov.ab.ca/englishexpress/articles/
Cross Curricular Literacy www.multilingualclassrooms.org
Scaffolding in the quadrants Cummins 4-Quadrant Model for Instruction
Daily Five CAFE menu of strategies: Comprehension Accuracy Fluency Expand vocabulary
Resources on Vocabulary • Bauman J (1996) The General Service List http://jbauman.com/index.html • Coxhead, A. (2000) The Academic Word List http://victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/default.aspx Nation, ISP (2008) Teaching Vocabulary: Strategies and Techniques. Boston, MA, Heinle
SPEAKING: LISTENING • More than YES or NO responses; Open ended WHO, WHERE, WHEN, WHAT, WHY, HOW? • Audio recordings • The Carbo method---speak slowly between PHRASES and SENTENCES (not individual words) • Scribing of responses, Photographs, Picture Forms, Cartoon Bubbles, DICE game
Personal Vocabulary Banks and word walls • WORDS selected as they arise in lessons: • Alphabetical • Grammatical
writing • Key Visuals or Graphic Organizers • can be used before, during or after a lesson • Cloze Sentence Combining Sentence Completion Paragraph Frame Genre Templates (Argument-Evidence) • Personal Experience, Sentence Strips, Photo Stories, Moodles, Texting to Someone
Supportive feedback • Look for recurring errors • FOCUS on one or two types of errors (ignore the rest) • FLAG but don’t correct the errors • Have a conference with the student • Give a mini lesson to several who are making the same error • Encourage students to correct their own errors