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Building Background for ELLs

February 14, 2013Andrea Mullen & Ashley Chastain

+Welcome!As you come in…Please take an “Alphabet Soup” sheet from the middle of your table.

Try to figure out as many of the acronyms as you can!

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Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol

SIOP

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English Language Learner

ELL

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English as a Second Language

ESL

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Limited English Proficient

LEP

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World Class Instructional Design

and Assessment

WIDA

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Accessing Comprehension and Communication in

EnglishState to State

ACCESS

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WIDA-ACCESSPlacement Test

W-APT

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First Language(Native or Home

Language)

L1

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Second Language(Target Language)

L2

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English Language Development

ELD

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Basic Interpersonal Communication

Skills

BICS

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Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency

CALP

+Introductions

+ObjectivesToday we will:Observe a modeled SIOP lessonDiscuss the challenges lack of background knowledge can cause for students

View methods of assessing prior knowledge

Gather tools to build student background knowledge

+CCS Elementary PD Wikispacehttp://ccselementarypd. wikispaces.com Building Students’ Background Knowledge and Vocabulary

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The SIOP Model

1. Lesson Preparation2. Building

Background3. Comprehensible

Input4. Strategies5. Interaction6. Practice and

Application7. Lesson Delivery8. Review and

Assessment

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Lesson 1

+Turn and Talk

What was the lesson about?

What did you learn?

How did you learn?

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Lesson 2

+La comunidad

+La maestra

+El cartero

+El pintor

+El bombero

+El dentista

+Turn and Talk

What was the lesson about?

What did you learn?

How did you learn?

+Building Background

Read the following and put in your own words:

The difficulty of your set could be increased if you do a jam followed

by a peach.

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The difficulty of your set could be increased if you

do a jam followed by a peach. means

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The point values you can earn on your gymnastics routine can be bigger if you include, in sequence, two particular skills on the uneven parallel bars: the “jam,” which leaves the gymnast sitting on the high bar; and the “peach,” where the gymnast moves from the high bar to the low bar.

The difficulty of your set could be increased if you

do a jam followed by a peach.

Source: Retrieved from http://www.readingquest.org/bkgd_sol.html on February 20, 2013.

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What makes this text complex?

Multiple word meaningsLack of background knowledge

Technical vocabulary Culture of gymnastics

The difficulty of your set could be increased if you do a jam followed by a peach.

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So how do I build

background for my ELLs?

+The Difference between Building Background and Making ConnectionsStudents cannot make a connection to knowledge or experiences they have never had.

The purpose of building background is to provide a foundation for new learning and experiences to be built upon.

+How to Build Background Knowledge1. Assess students’ background knowledge.

2. Provide information and/or experiences to fill in gaps where there is no prior knowledge

3. Explicitly link past learning with new concepts

+1. Assess students’ background knowledge.KWL ChartThinking MapsPretest Quick-write in journalCarousel BrainstormingAnticipation GuideAlphaBoxes

+Carousel Brainstorming

+Anticipation Guide

+AlphaBoxes

Animal Adaptation

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behaviorblubber

environment

clawschange

talons

physical

survive

need

+2. Provide information and/or experiences to fill in gaps where there is no prior knowledgeConcrete explanations enhanced by:

PhotosVideosRealiaModelsReading a story, article, or picture book about the topic

Field trips (Including virtual field trips)

+3. Explicitly link past learning with new conceptsQuestioningWho remembers what we learned about…

How can we connect this to…Do you remember when…

Review graphic organizers, key vocabulary, etc.

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Questions?

+Put It Into PracticeBrainstorm with your tableThink of how you can incorporate building background into an upcoming lesson or unit

Be prepared to share with the group

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Something

you liked,

learned, or

an ah-ha moment.

Any questions you may still have

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