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Breaking down ideas into smaller parts

Breaking down ideas into smaller parts. Techniques for scaffolding. Visual and graphic support (Pictures, Venn diagrams, mind maps, tables, charts) Make key words memorable – repetition, paraphrasing, matching up. Give activities before reading or listening tasks to prepare students.

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Breaking down ideas into smaller parts

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  1. Breaking down ideas into smaller parts

  2. Techniques for scaffolding • Visual and graphic support (Pictures, Venn diagrams, mind maps, tables, charts) • Make key words memorable – repetition, paraphrasing, matching up. • Give activities before reading or listening tasks to prepare students. • Reinforce understanding of key concepts and key words after reading/listening tasks. • ‘Model’ activities such as role-plays with a colleague or a bright student first. • Give students language frames to guide written work or glossaries. • Code switching – alternating between the 2 languages. • Making tasks accessible if a text/audio is very difficult to understand.

  3. What do you think of ..? • The prince & princess activity as an alternative to a gap-fill? • The George Washington info-gap activity? • The greenhouse effect info-gap with pictures activity? • Re-ordering sentences about the greenhouse effect? • The text on Karl Marx.

  4. The task assigned to a text determines the level of difficulty just as much as the text itself.

  5. A guideline for reading tasks • Introduce the general topic [activation] • Prediction • Pre-teach vocabulary, if necessary • Gist task – with a time limit – to give the students a ‘flavour’ of the text • Detailed reading – scanning for information and analysis at sentence level • Discussion – don’t ignore the actual content of the text! • Follow-up/extension task – students prepare a written or spoken piece on the topic

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