Teach: The Core 5
Develop Academic Language
What It Is: Developing language at both the word and the discourse level
Why It Matters: Students need authentic experiences with academic vocabulary and discourse in order to acquire (a.k.a to own) new academic language
Essential Strategies:
Cognative Content Dictionary
Bricks and Mortar
Build Background
What It Is: Creating prior knowledge for new knowledge to cling to
Why It Matters: Knowledge is built on what is known
Essential Strategies:
Double Vision
Carousel
Hanging Hashtags
Clarify Input
What It Is: Simplifying the information that the student is receiving aurally or through reading
Why It Matters: If the student does not understand the language being received, new learning is stifled.
Essential Strategies:
Chunking the Text
Lowering the Reading Level
Providing Visuals
Foster Interactions
What It Is: Nurturing interactions between the student and teacher and the student and peers
Why It Matters: Academic language and content learning develop simultaneously in the content of meaningful interactions with others.
Essential Strategies:
Fan and Pick
Quiz, Quiz, Trade
Academic conversations with Language Frames for All
Inner/Outer Circle
Hands Up/Pair Up
Fortify Output
What It Is: Strengthening the oral or written discourse of the student by providing linguistic scaffolding
Why It Matters: Scaffolded conversations and writing allow all students to participate in a meaningful way to solidify new learning from input
Essential Strategies:
The Write Tool
RACE for ERQs
Language Frames (sentence and paragraph level)
TEDDY Strategy with Flipgrid oral responses