REVISION RESOURCE
◉ How can you support parents of English learners in reading?
Answer: All communication with the parents or guardians should be
in the language that the parent understands. You should also
encourage the parents to read to the students in the native language,
and in English if possible.
◉ How do you use listening/speaking as an instructional activity to
support what students have learned?. Answer: Read aloud's both
from literary or fictional, an informational texts, as well as having
students participate in discussions that challenge them to use the
words they have learned throughout direct instruction. Another
activity is also oral rehearsal, which is an oral language activity that
helps students see the link between oral and written language.
◉ Oral rehearsal is an oral language activity that helps students see
the link between oral and written language. How does one use oral
rehearsal?. Answer: The teacher give a writing activity, but before
students write some thing, they are encouraged to say it to
themselves, listening very closely to their own words, and perhaps
modifying their message before writing it down if it doesn't sound
right. Also, discussing possible sentence options before deciding on
a final version of their sentence.
,◉ After learning words, meanings, ____________ and _____________
activities with target words are needed.. Answer: Reading and
writing activities
◉ Concerning sentence structure, students need to learn about.
Answer: Subjects and predicates, independent clauses, and how to
avoid writing sentence, fragments, and run on sentences.
◉ Independent clauses. Answer: Can stand alone
EX: darlene kicked the ball.
◉ Dependent clauses. Answer: Cannot stand alone
EX: "Darlene kicked the ball to Fred, who kicked it to Alan".
"Who kicked it to Alan" is the dependent clause.
◉ Are concerning sentence structure students need to recognize two
types of sentences, which are.... Answer: Either/Or sentences and
Neither/Nor sentences
◉ Sentence, combining activity (description). Answer: Are students
are presented with 2, 3, or 4 simple sentences. (Simple sentences
,have one subject and one verb) Students are then challenge to
combine the simple sentences into complex sentences with 1
independent clause, and 1 or more dependent clauses.
EX:
Fred kicks the football to Sam.
Sam kicked the football over the fence.
Becomes
Fred kicked the football to Sam, who kicked it over the fence.
◉ How does the sentence, combining activity help students?.
Answer: Students understand the structure of sentences, and
consequently better understand what they are reading.
◉ Syntax. Answer: Is the order of words in a sentence
EX: in English, a common pattern is article, adjective, noun, such as
the sentence: the yellow house
◉ When teaching punctuation and capitalization, the teacher should.
Answer: Provide a king, friendly rule, then display models of
correctness for punctuation and capitalization, and then challenge
the students to find errors in specially designed sentences.
, ◉ An activity for teaching punctuation and capitalization is....
Answer: Error-Analysis task in which students find errors in
specially designed sentences
◉ Interventions to help, struggling readersacquire vocabulary,
knowledge of academic language, and background knowledge..
Answer: 1. Focus on key vocabulary and nontechnical academic
language
2. Reteach what is not mastered
3. Provide concrete examples
4. Use visual, kinesthetic, and tactile activities
◉ When helping, struggling readers by focusing on key vocabulary
and nontechnical, academic language, teachers should do these two
things. Answer: 1. Narrow the focus into keywords necessary for
understanding a text (well, other children are expected to learn 6 to
8 words in a lesson struggling readers should strive to learn 3 to 4
essential words)
2. Focus lessons on words that will be used in several contexts (focus
on nontechnical academic language with words, such as analyze,
synthesize, identify, compare, and contrast)