Language Structures Vocabulary Vocabulary Strategies

Sentence patterns that are common in the language.

Tip: Choose language structures that students are not using with confidence.

Choose patterns that are often found in text.

Words or phrases that students do not know well.

Explicitly teach words that are necessary for understanding the text and words that are useful across many contexts.

Tip: Use pictures, realia and/or TPR to help students understand the word. Use oral rehearsal to practice and reinforce.

Strategies that help students to maintain comprehension when they encounter unknown words in independent reading.

Tip: Words they don’t have in their vocabulary.

The goal is for the students to approximate what the word means.

Examples:

I am ______-ing.We can ________.Look at the _______.

Examples:

ShelterRow“In the woods”

Examples:

Use the picture.Insert a synonym.Reread and look for clues.