English Language Learners in the Classroom: Strategies That Make A Difference

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English Language Learners in the Classroom:

Strategies That Make a Difference

Keith Pruitt, Ed.S.

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Agenda

Discussion of six strategies within the framework of:

Increasing Comprehensible Input

Increasing Interaction

Promoting Thinking Skills

Interdependence Theory

Schema Theory

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•Total Physical Response (Asher)

•Interactive Learning (Slavin, Gardner, Hoyt)

•Preview, View, Review (Freeman)

•Using Visualization and Schema (Beck, McKeown, Kucan, Marzano, Piaget)

•Alternative Texts (Clay, Fountas, Pinnell, Booth, Opitz, Ford, Zbaracki)

•Transference (Cummins, Freeman)

Are some of your students still trying to figure out how to get over the fence while the rest are

surging ahead?

What is

Comprehensible

Input?

What is the level of Understanding Here?

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Russell T. Hurlburt (2003). Comprehending Behavioral Statistics. Thomson: Australia, p. 336.

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Can You Read This?

The Greater the Comprehensible Input …

… the greater the capacity to comprehend.

So which is more desirable?

The student who reads every word?

The student who understands the meaning?

What is Involved In Comprehension?

What Does it Mean to Understand?

•Making Sense of text based on author’s intention and message.

•Understanding how the words interplay to relay a message.

•To exercise intellectual muscle

•To connect with a text in a meaningful way

Jamika’s Story

Comprehension Strategies•Make Connections •Determine Importance•Infer•Use Fix-Up Strategies•Synthesize•Create Sensory and Emotional Images•Ask questions

Keene and Zimmerman, Mosaic of Thought, 1997

The Road On The LeftBy Keith Pruitt

On my Tuesday drive through the country side, I happened on a road I had not previously seen. It was on my left just past Conner’s store. Even though I had been here many times, I had never noticed this road before and it seemed seldom driven as grass was grown waist high on the edges. The treads of tires previously venturing down the lane were the only signs the path had been driven. ∞ I can see that in my mind. I can just see me driving down this dirt road and there is grass in the middle hitting on my car and the dust is flying and the weeds on the side of the road are up to my window. Can you stand in your space and show your conversation partner how high you think the grass would be? Remember, it is up to the window of my car.

Turning down the road the grass between the tire ruts seemed short for a distance but soon became taller hitting the grill on my car. It was obvious I had turned down a road where few had driven in recent days. Over in the field was a house that appeared to be vacant. ∞ If the house is vacant it means that no one is living there. A smile crossed my face as memories from the past came rushing through my mind. ∞ I think that this person has been to this house before. I know this because the author says memories came rushing through my mind. A memory is based on something that has happened before to a person. How would a person smile when they remember something they like. What do you think the author means when he says memories came rushing through my mind? Turn and Talk.

My mother had moved here as a child of five years old from their old house in Chicago. She loved living here in the country. She use to tell me of swinging on an old tire hung by a rope from a tree. Well, I wonder if that is the tree over yonder. “Look the old rope is still there,” I called to the air.

When I was but five years old, I remember coming to visit grandmother. She would be sitting on the porch in her rocker just knitting and singing. “I’ll fly away, oh glory, I’ll fly away,” I mumbled the words still remembering the old hymn she loved so much. My face lit up with the warmth of these remembrances. Fifty years had gone by, but it was as though it were yesterday. ∞ Have you ever moved far away from your house? What do you think it would look like if you went back?

The house looked to be in fairly good shape. It needed a coat of paint and a few boards had come loose. Otherwise, it had survived the years rather well. Mr. Corbin told me the last people to live at Shiloh Valley were the Hendricks. They had both been dead now only a couple of years. I guess they did right well by the place. It looked better than I had supposed.

I opened the door and grabbed my box of supplies and began up the steps. The movers would be here in a week. There was a lot to be done in such a short time. I had come home.

What do you think the person is going to do with the house?

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1.Model a comprehension strategy for children.

2.Have students practice the strategy with you.

3.Allow students to practice the strategy with each other.

Strategies Used:

Cooperative Learning

Visualization

Alternative Text

Preview

ReviewDavid and Yvonne Freeman, Closing the Achievement Gap and others.

Preview Using Story Mapping

Build schema with Visual AnchorVisual Transference

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story mapping.

• Should be used when introducing new science and social studies text.

• Can be used to introduce new vocabulary.

• Can pre-teach using ELL/ Spec Ed teacher.

Connected Comprehension

Instruction

The Keys to Comprehension Instruction is getting students to THINK!

Literacy by Design, Rigby, Linda Hoyt, 2008

1. Read, Cover, Remember, Retell2. Say Something 3. Partner Jigsaw4. Two-Word5. Reverse Think-Aloud

Interactive Reading Techniques

The Power of Peer Learning

Literacy by Design, Rigby, Linda Hoyt, 2008

Visualization

Creating Schema

How Is Schema Created?

What Comes to Your Mind When You Think of…

• Dog

• Bridge

• Statue

• Man

• How about when I spell this word?

The Work of J R Anderson

SensoryMemory

WorkingMemory

Discards

PermanentMemory Files

Anderson, J.R. (1995). Learning and memory: An integrated approach. New York: John

Wiley & Sons

How Does The Brain Work?

• Learn new vocabulary by creating schema that connects with what is already known. (Beck, McKeown, Kucan and Marzano)

What words come to your mind as you look at this picture? Turn and Talk

How About Now?

What Schema Do You Have For This Picture?

Can you transfer your learning?

Can you adopt new schemes for this if I give you information?

Beck, McKeown, Kucan

• Vocabulary must first be orally introduced.• Vocabulary is not grade specific.• Words must be explained, not defined.• Must be contextualized.• Multiple usages in a meaningful context (8-10).• Create Schema (visual representation)• Students reflect with each other• Three Tiers of Vocabulary

Working With Vocabulary

• Explain• Restate

• Show

• Discuss

• Refine and Reflect

• Apply and Learning Games

Robert Marzano, Building Background Knowledge

Comforting- Something or someone that is comforting makes you feel good when you are sad or hurt.

Beck & McKeown, Elements of Reading Vocabulary, Steck Vaughn, 2004

Further explain by putting the word in a context.

A warm cup of tea is comforting when my throat hurts.My dog feels comforting when I am hurt.

Using Vocabulary Journals

• Have students create journals

• Words

• Schema

• Explanations

• Reflections

• Consultations

By creating the visual representation, they are

making the learning concrete by making permanent

memory files.

Why is this important?

Hooking The Learning

• Have you ever met someone and then five minutes later…you couldn’t remember their name?

• Have you ever met someone for the first time that you had talked with on the phone for a long time only to think,… they don’t look like what I thought?

• Do you think in images?• Think about your husband or wife.• Do you just dream in words, or do you create

images?

Do Not Under-estimate the power of a picture.

The Heart of the Tulip

By Keith Pruitt

Exaggerate

Beck and McKeown, Elements of Reading Vocabulary, Steck Vaughn, 2004

scheming

The cats were scheming against the birds.

Invisible

Beck and McKeown, Elements of Reading Vocabulary, Steck Vaughn, 2004

Fatigue

The bear was very fatigued from walking so far.

Michael Phelps is an Icon of Olympic swimming.

Spider

Would this be helpful in a Science lesson?

©Keith Pruitt, Art by Keith

Open For Discussion

What are the possible advantages of students discussing with each other their concepts of

a word (context, visual representation, etc.)?

• Ability to transfer from L1 to L2 using peer tutoring.

• Sharing personal understanding broadens each understanding.

• Creates multiple contexts for usage.

Reflection allows a refinement of understanding. It permits the memory file to be adjusted to incorporate new understandings.

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A Graphic Way of Showing Tense

Present

Future

Drinking warm teawhen my throat

Holding my cat inmy lap

A warm blanket ona cold night

Comforting

Use graphic organizers to help students use the words in meaningful contexts

Use Slam Board

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formulated

marginalfleet

comforting

Sandpaper A blanket Being hit

Check the box that matches the meaning of the word at the top

Versatile

Sing and dance Play piano Read a book

Companionship

A strangerSomeone in

Anothercity

Fashionable

Hoop Skirt Tailored suit Coveralls

Exploding The Vocabulary

•Through direct instruction, 5-8 words/week•Adds approximately 160 words to reading/writing vocabularies.•If we take the connective words for those five… look what happens.

So work becomes

Worker

Worked

Working

Will Work

Employment

A Word Tree Starts with Base Word

Using Word Tree• Those five words have become @50 words.• Now in 32 weeks we have instructed 1600

words.• Students may gain another 320-600 words via

reading.• Now we have exploded the vocabulary by a

maximum of 2200 words in 32 weeks.• In the traditional program 640 words are

instructed, but only 64-120 of them are learned. And emphasis is on spelling.

You Try It

Here are some common words taught. What other words may we teach in conjunction with these:

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Morris’ research on phonics/ pa shows:

1. Phonics lessons should be no more than 10-15 min

2. Majority of lesson should be tactile experience

3. Children learn more when manipulating phonemes than by just hearing sounds

4. Phonics instruction should be completed by end of second grade.

A. Using children, create a photo collection of these words and have students match pictures to words.

B. Have students act out the action words using the nouns (TPR). Which part of my body can I raise?

C. Have set of words and then other words with which I can make compound words.

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Remember, practice is the key to ownership.

Using Alternative Text

What is the Zone of Proximal Development and what role does it play in selecting text for

students?

TURN and TALK

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1. Homogenous grouping of students

2. Meeting for a specific purpose

3. Selected text because it is at their instructional level and meets the skill challenge needed

4. Meeting students where they are in order to bring where they need to be

5. Allows students to practice, practice, practice

6. With beginning students, wordless picture books allows students to create stories and learn language

7. Students read to teacher

8. Teacher observes and makes evaluation of further needs

Leveling Systems

Hirschian System- Below On Above

Categorical System- A B C= Kindergarten

Incremental System- Read. Recovery, PM

Kinder Readiness A A B

Kinder Readiness B 1

Kinder Readiness C 2

Kinder Pre-primer C 3

Increasing Fluency is

A Matter

Practice!

Does Fluency Make A Difference?

The teacher said the principal is the best in the district.

What is the meaning?

Does Fluency Make A Difference?

“The teacher,” said the principal “is the best in the district.”

What is the meaning?

Recipe for Fluency Success

Step 1: Read the story to children.

Step 2: Have students listen to story with CD or cassette

Step 3: Have student read 1 minute reading to teacher

Step 4: Have students buddy read

Step 5: Students should read to themselves

Based on Tim Shanahan model, Elements of Reading Fluency, Steck Vaughn, 2004

Goals for ReadingIf students read 1 book a week=32 books/yr

If students read 2 books a week=64 books/yr

If students read 3 books a week=96 books/yr

If each book averages 130 words, how many new words would they read at 1:10.

Building stamina builds vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.

Consider what it is like to be an ELL student struggling to make meaning of what is being said in the

classroom.

Cummins’ Interdependence Theory

To the extent that instruction in Lx is effective in promoting proficiency in Lx, transfer of this proficiency to Ly will occur provided there is adequate exposure to Ly (either in school or environment) and adequate motivation to learn Ly.

--J. Cummins, 1981. “The Role of Primary Language Development in Promoting Educational Success for Language Minority Students.” In Schooling and Language Minority Students: A Theoretical

Framework. P. 29

What Do ELL Students Need?

The keys to effective reading instruction for ELLs include activating or building background knowledge, helping students use psychological strategies and linguistic cueing systems to construct meaning from English texts, choosing appropriate materials, and organizing curriculum around themes.

--David and Yvonne Freeman

English

What I Know

About Word

Is This In

My Language?

Background Transfer Chart

English

What I Know

About Word

Is This In

My Language?

Tell Time 时钟

Drink coffee

杯子

Eat 叉 ; 耙

English

What I Know

About Word

Is This In

My Language?

Time reloj

Coca copa

Food tenedor

Creating New Schema

• Using Spanish CognatesHundreds of words in Spanish and English

have common roots in Latin. Many of the these words are the same except for one letter. These serve as good basis of conversation.

Turn and Talk: Tell me what the English word is for these Spanish cognates.

Spanish Cognates

• Ocurrir• Reptil• Ciclo• Paciente• Invitar• Cooperar• Educacion• Sociedad• Presente

Today’s discussion has begun a process.

What teachers do in the classroom makes all the difference.

We can not loose our focus!

The Teacher

I taught a child to read today,Aren’t I a lucky soul;

And now a world has opened up,The child can now be whole.

He’ll run and play as others do,But more will be his call;

By opening up a book at play,He’ll stand so sure and tall.

A preacher, teacher, scientist perhaps,Someday his task will be;

But it all began one simple day,

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