English Learners

Strategies

for Vocabulary Development and Reading Access in ALL content areas.

Open Ended

Let's begin with a brief reflection.

How do you help ELs access your content IN ENGLISH in your class?

"Buckets" we need to fill

Vocabulary Development

Reading Access

Writing

Speaking & Listening

Vocabulary Development

1. tsunami (tsu na' mi)

Noun. A disaster caused by an enormous sea wave.

A colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization within minutes.

If a meteor were to strike the Pacific Ocean, it might trigger a tsunami in California.

Open Ended

If I received a tsunami warning, I would________________.

2. hierarchy (hi' er ar chy)

Noun. A system that organizes or ranks things according to power or importance.

The Pope is at the top of the Catholic church's hierarchy.

Military members are organized according to a hierarchy.

Open Ended

I don't appreciate the hierarchy of ________________ because ________________________.

3. nonlinear (non li' ne ar)

• Adj. not following a straight line or order

• Some books feature nonlinear plot lines that jump backwards and forwards in time.

• Nonlinear equations result in curves or parabolas when graphed.

Open Ended

I once had a non-linear dream in which _______________________.

Making Content-Specific Reading Accessible

Pulling back the curtain

• Creating knowledge context (video)

• Predicted

• Text-dependent Questions

• Chunked piece of reading

• Annotation as a group

• Writing about learning

Open Ended

Based on the videos, I predict that I will be reading about______________ because______________.

Text Dependent Questions

What is the accuracy of the nested grid dependent on?

Why should boundaries be located in the areas of the coarse grid?

How does the nested grid model help us understand tsunamis?

Open Ended

What feelings came up for you as you tried to understand the questions?

Open Ended

How would you summarize your learning from this text?

Open Ended

How have the use of the reading strategies helped you to understand the text better?

(Creating prior knowledge, prediction, text-dependent questions, chunking, annotation, and reflecting on learning.)

Open Ended

What is something from this PD that you can immediately apply in your classroom?