Language-Rich, Interactive Classrooms

To create a language-rich, interactive classroom, we promote academic language and literacy development through meaningful interaction. This is necessary for EBs because they benefit from a focus on oracy and multiple opportunities to practice social and academic language.

At Horn, we follow the 4 principles of T.I.P.S.:

T- Total participation of all students,

I- Incorporate academic vocabulary,

P- Promote literacy and language development, and

S- Scaffold for all language levels

At Horn, our staff uses 7 Steps to make content comprehensible while building academic language for ALL learners. The chart below shows the 7 Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive Classroom.