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Teaching ELLs Comprehension: Reader Generated Questions

Teaching ELLs Comprehension: Reader Generated Questions. Prof. Margarita Zisselsberger, Ph.D. Porf . Afra Ahmed Hersi , Ph.D. Loyola University Maryland TeachForAmerica Alumni Assembly. Objectives.

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Teaching ELLs Comprehension: Reader Generated Questions

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  1. Teaching ELLs Comprehension: Reader Generated Questions Prof. Margarita Zisselsberger, Ph.D. Porf. Afra Ahmed Hersi, Ph.D. Loyola University Maryland TeachForAmerica Alumni Assembly

  2. Objectives • What are the varying levels of English language proficiency? What are the characteristics of learners at those varying levels? • What is it like to be an English language learner in the classroom? • What is the Reader Generated Questions Strategy? Looking at how this strategy works and how it fits within Culturally Responsive Teaching. What are some CCSS connections? • How can questioning strategies help? • How can we implement RGQ into the classroom?

  3. Transformational Teaching leads to Student Leadership Culturally Responsive Teaching Dramatic Academic Gains ELLs will be able to make gains at their proficiency level Critical Consciousness/ Advocacy Family Engagement Habits of Mind Through questioning ELLs build good reading habits Access Helps provide access to content materials through different entry points Baltimore

  4. Levels of Language Proficiency • Preproduction • Early Production • Speech Emergence • Intermediate Fluency

  5. Reader Generated Questions • Stimuli • Generation of Questions • Responding to Questions • Presentation of the Text • Checking Out Responses • Final Activity • Follow-up

  6. Let’s Try It OutPulgada a Pulgada

  7. Now You Try It • Examine your existing lesson plans • Where can you build in a few minutes to have students generate questions • What are some benefits to having students generate questions • What kinds of questions will students at varying levels produce? How can you help students at varying proficiency levels access the content?

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