For students to experience success while acquiring a language, they must be able to understand what they hear or read (Krashen, 2017). Therefore, educators must implement techniques that are designed to improve comprehensibility.
Speaking to students at an appropriate pace, enunciating clearly, and using gestures/body language to emphasize key points
Learning games for reading, writing, listening and speaking
Tailoring instruction to align with students' levels of Second Language acquisition (beginning, early intermediate, intermediate, advanced)
Vocabulary cards (paper or digital) and flip books to introduce and/or review key vocabulary/terms
"Move It"-When the teacher and students use hands, facial expressions, or whole body movement to illustrate key points of a lesson
Adaption of content to all levels of student language proficiency using a tool like Newsela
Providing reading materials to MLL's in their first language using a tool like Newsela or Google Translate
Explicit instruction regarding homographs, homophones, and synonyms
Providing or recording of audio texts for scaffolded reading
Use pictures, captions, headings of sections to build schema so students are ready to read harder text
Demonstration of skills through I do, you do, we do
Framed outlines-creating an outline of a text or lesson leaving out some key information. Students complete the missing information as they read/participate in a lesson. Some students might also benefit from having the first letter of missing piece as a clue
Opportunities to collaborate/check-in with peers
Prepared summaries of content and/or key vocabulary terms
Enlarged and/or adapted texts
Alternate materials based on readability, accessibility, etc.