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ELL Standard 3c.2 Level MS
English Language Learners read for information and understanding, using a variety of sources, for academic and social purposes.
Comprehend grade-appropriate content area text with support.
Standard in Kid Friendly Language
Reader understands the textbook and other reading materials for Social Studies, Science, Math, and Language Arts with assistance.
Standard Unwrapped
KNOW
- Organizational features of a text
- Multiple reading strategies
ABLE TO DO
- Locate information in the text
- Interpret information from the text
- Charts/data tables/graphs/maps
- Use context clues to understand unfamiliar vocabulary
- Use reading strategies to make content comprehensible
Instructional Strategies
Utilizing the organizational features of a text
- Parts of the book game
- Handout for Parts of the Book vocabulary
- Lesson plan for using nonfiction science books to teach organizational features
G.I.S.T. (Generating Interaction between Schemata and Text)
- G.I.S.T. strategy explanation + template
Language Experience
- Link to ERIC article explaining Language Experience strategy pages 9-16
- Individual Concept Books Explanation of "Individual Concept Book" strategy
- Scrambled Sentences and Scrambled Paragraphs: Use essential sentences/paragraphs from content area texts or from the above mentioned "Individual Books", scramble them, and have students re-order them
- Building Sentences lesson plan
- Sentence Scrambler This site will scramble any sentence that is input
Teaching the Academic Language of Textbooks
Assessment Strategies
Content area assessments with possible modifications:
- Graphic representation of material (NEP level)
- Mapping, timeline, Venn diagram, etc.
- Graphic Organizer templates to download Various graphic organizers
- Cluster/Word Web
- 5 W's Chart
- Sequence Chart Sequence of Events Chart Time Order Chart
- Idea Wheel Provide sections for "people", "places", "events", and "causes" for (i.e.) Civil War
- Organizational Outline Template
- Graphic Organizer templates to download Various graphic organizers
- Mapping, timeline, Venn diagram, etc.
- Substitute visual representation for short constructed response
- Matching with visuals
- Substitute Word Sort of key terms for short constructed response
- Provide Word Bank for short constructed responses
- Cloze Procedure for short constructed responses
Resources
Explanation of Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA)
Example of CALLA applied to reading assignment for science
Reading Charts Practice Activity
Reading Maps Practice Activity
Reading Maps Practice Activity
Reading a Chart Practice Activity
5 Types of Context Clues Handout
