Building Student Vocabulary

The ESL Team:

•Cathy Jacobs - cathy.jacobs•Christina Mahar – christina.mahar•Betsy Schneider – elisabethr.schneider

Lesson Preparation Building Background Comprehensible Input Strategies Interaction Practice Application Lesson Delivery Review & Assessment

SIOP STEPS

Lesson Preparation

Content

Students will be able to draw conclusions

about ?.

Discovery Ed. Curriculum Alignment

Language

Students will be able to write/draw and discuss

predictions after hearing a sound effect.

Objectives

Retreat Handouts\Verbs for Writing Content and Language Objectives.docx

SIOP Strategy: Personal Dictionaries Created by students

as an individual vocabulary and spelling resource

Students color code dictionaries based upon subject and content

School wide system with total faculty involvement

SIOP Strategy: Four Corners Vocabulary A graphic organizer

that makes vocabulary words comprehensible

Includes the word, a definition, a sentence, a picture and ELL students can translate the word as well

See handouts on tables

SIOP Strategy: Catch PhraseVocabulary becomes a game!- Students are given a card with an academic

vocabulary word written on it. - Smaller words in the corner are the words that

students CAN’T say when they are trying to describe the word.

- This game introduces rigor to students because they have to think about how to describe the concept in a clear way, while avoiding the use of some words.

NOW YOU TRY!

Mammal

animal

Describe this word

Don’t use this word in the description.

SIOP: Building Background

BICS & CALP (James

Cummins) BICS: Basic Interpersonal

Communication Skills (social English)

CALP: Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (academic English)

Strategies

• TPR- Fingers and Footplay• Graphic Organizers-

Using Graphic Organizers• Read Aloud- Windows of My World• Peer Teaching- Today’s Classroom• DR-TA- Literacy and Learning• KWL – Using KWL• Questioning-

Drawing Inferences and Generating Questions

Interaction = Cooperative learning

•Frequent opportunities for interaction and discussion—Supply “oral rehearsal”

•Group students to support language and content objectives with varied pairs, triads, teams

•Opportunities for clarification for concepts in L1

Application

ExplorationSample 1

Virtual LabsHow does your garden grow?

•Activities for student to apply content and language knowledge in the classroom •Activities that integrate all language skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking)

Lesson Delivery

NOW IT’S YOUR TURN!

Graffiti Write!

Review/Assessment: review the key vocabulary, key content concepts, give feedback, and assess student comprehension

Games Outcome Sentences

•I wonder…•I discovered…•I still want to know…•I learned…•I still don’t understand…•I still have a question about…•I will ask a friend about…