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Easy as Pie Content Lessons. Adapted from: Enhancing English Language Learning in Elementary Classrooms Center for Applied Linguistics. Traditional Content Lessons. Follow a sequence similar to this: Students read the text answer questions discuss material
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Easy as Pie Content Lessons Adapted from: Enhancing English Language Learning in Elementary Classrooms Center for Applied Linguistics
Traditional Content Lessons • Follow a sequence similar to this: • Students • read the text • answer questions • discuss material • Complete applications/expansions
For Second Language Students • This is the wrong sequence to follow. • Why do you think this is so? • Reason 1? • Reason 2? • Reason 3? • Hint: part of the reasons have to do with scaffolding and background knowledge.
With L2 Learners ... • Teach the Text Backwards.....
Easy as PIE Lesson Modification • Increase Comprehensiblity by Teaching the Text Backwards • Use multisensory approaches • Develop Prior Knowledge • Identify and focus on specific vocabulary • Recycle language previously practiced
PIE Modification... 2. Increase Interaction .....by using Cooperative Activities • Think-Pair-Share • Numbered Heads Together • Mix & Match • Rotating Review
PIE Modification... 3. Increase Thinking Skills .....by Monitoring Questioning Strategies • Teacher monitors own questions • Question spinners
Evaluate your lesson.. • How did the lesson... • Move from • prior knowledge to new knowledge? • concrete to abstract knowledge? • oral language to written language to text? • more contextual support to less contextual support?