Sheltered Instruction
Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English
Effective sheltered content instruction provides English learners with access to the core curriculum while concurrently developing their proficiency in academic English.
Student Engagement Strategies
Student engagement strategies are essential tools to implement in your classroom to help students internalize language and get "miles on the tongue". Structured Oral Language Practice routines help students internalize academic language patterns and content-specific vocabulary. We need to provide students multiple opportunities to practice in engaging and supportive settings.
There are a myriad of strategies for structuring interaction. Here are instructions for incorporating nine different routines in your classroom.
Structured Oral Practice Routines
Here are some templates for some Structured Language Practice Routines that assist in engaging your students in purposeful and extended discourse while also requiring students to turn in a brief written product to ensure individual accountability.
Academic Response Frames and Writing Templates
Response frames and writing templates provide our students the necessary scaffolds they need for academic oral and written discourse. We must explicitly teach our students to recognize and utilize the distinct language functions they encounter in their daily content course work in ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies. The dominant language functions and text structures found in these academic core subjects include: Compare & Contrast, Cause & Effect, Description/Elaboration, Proposition & Support, and Sequencing.
Here are some resources you can use in your classrooms to equip students with the language they need to express their thinking.
A Thumbnail Look at Common Functions
Response Frames for Academic Writing and Speaking
Cause and Effect Signal Words and Sentence Frames
Compare and Contrast Signal Words and Sentence Frames
Elaboration and Description Signal Words and Sentence Frames
Proposition and Support Signal Words and Sentence Frames
Sequencing Signal Words and Sentence Frames
Genre Writing Templates
Response to Literature Writing Template
Summary Templates
Single Paragraph Summary Template
Functional Documents Summary Template
Example Summary Template for a Math Problem
Types of Volcanoes Summary Template
Magellan's Remarkable Voyage Single Paragraph Summary Template
Dialectical Journals
Dialectical_Journal -Example from Magellan's Remarkable Voyage.doc