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EMERGING (previously called BEGINNING) 

ACCESS score 2

Teaching Resources

Overview

 

 

Students in this stage begin to respond verbally using one or two words.  Students begin to develop the ability to understand words often repeated in a familiar context.  Students begin to develop listening skills and build their passive and receptive (listening) vocabulary.  They may begin to group two and three words together in a short phrase to respond to a question or express an idea.

 

Characteristics

 

Students:

  • relate words to their environment

  • begin to grasp main ideas of message

  • begin to focus on contextual clues

  • use routine expressions independently

  • demonstrate improved comprehension

  • mispronounce words (no need for correction)

  • will repeat, or recite memorable language

  • will use one or two word responses advancing to two or three words

  • may not tell you if they do not understand


Adopted from Project Talk Academic Excellence Program and Title VII

Strategies

 

Teachers need to:

  • use cooperative learning and scaffolding techniques

  • ask YES/NO and directed choice questions

  • ask WHO?, WHAT?, WHERE? questions

  • ask listening type questions

  • use Think-Pair-Share technique when asking questions of the class

  • allow students to illustrate knowledge

  • use labeling and diagramming in illustrations

  • modify work by amount, time, content

Learning/Assessment

 

 

Learning Tasks

 

name                                       list

label                                        categorize

group                                       tell/say

respond                                   chant

discriminate                             answer

 

 

 

 

Assessing Comprehension

 

  • Where is the…?

  • Draw and label the…?

  • Show me how you know…?

  • Show how you would sort…?

  • Predict (tell) what comes next…

  • Why did ______ choose…?        

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