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Comprehensible Input

Comprehensible Input. Attending to students’ linguistic needs. Comprehensible Input.

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Comprehensible Input

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  1. Comprehensible Input Attending to students’ linguistic needs

  2. Comprehensible Input Teachers use a variety of techniques to make instruction understandable, including speech; clear academic tasks; and modeling, the use of visuals, hands on activities, demonstrations, gestures, and body language.

  3. Content Objectives**Today we will…… • Explore techniques for presenting content information in ways that students comprehend • Review various ways to model and provide directions for academic tasks

  4. Language Objectives** So we can ….. • Give examples of modifications that can increase student comprehension • Identify the language needed for students to perform academic tasks and techniques

  5. What are the issues preventing students from comprehending instruction?

  6. Comprehensible Input

  7. Comprehensible Input • Appropriate ways to present information to All Learners • Speak straightforward and clear (avoid jargon and idiomatic speech) • Use visuals • Paraphrase and repetition • Simple sentences

  8. Comprehensible Input • Idiom 4 square activity

  9. Comprehensible Input • Explanation of Academic Tasks It is critical for learners to have instructions presented in a step-by-step manner, preferably accompanied by a visual representation or demonstration of what is expected. Oral directions should always be accompanied by written ones so English learners can refer to them in the future.

  10. Activity Make these directions comprehensible: Scan the paragraphs about Jamestown and Plymouth to find the missing information for the chart on this page. Remember that when you scan, you read quickly to find certain facts or other pieces of information. Use the chart to take notes on what you find. You do not need to write complete sentences. Just write the important words.

  11. How to Make Content ComprehensibleTeaching Strategies • Use gestures, body movements, and facial expressions • Use pantomime and dramatization

  12. How to Make Content ComprehensibleTeaching Strategies • Use realia (real things), photos, pictures, drawings • Model • Breakdown complex tasks into manageable steps

  13. How to Make Content ComprehensibleTeaching Strategies • Report out orally and in writing daily • Work in teams and with partners routinely • Use Overhead transparencies and PowerPoint presentations

  14. Comprehensible Input • Examples from 99 Ideas and Activities: • Move It! Pg. 53 • Vocabulary Cards and Flip Books Pg. 55 • Idiom Match-Up Pg. 57

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