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DEVELOPING

(ACCESS score 3)

Teaching Resources

Overview

 

Students in this stage begin to respond in simple sentences when they are comfortable in the setting and engaged activities they understand.  Instruction should be focused on strategies that ensure comprehensible input.  All interactions with students in this stage should be focused on communication rather than form.  Teachers and other students should encourage and be receptive to all attempts to communicate (gestures, attentiveness, following directions, any oral participation). Teachers and students should model correct usage in all communication, but not correct errors.

 

Characteristics

 

Students:

  • begin to speak in simple sentences

  • demonstrate expanded vocabulary

  • show improved comprehension

  • may ask for clarification or meaning

  • participate in small group discussions

  • may rely on native language to communicate complex ideas

  • start to acquire basic communication skills and social language

  • may not tell if they do not understand



Adopted from Project Talk Academic Excellence Program and Title VII

Strategies

 

Teachers need to:

  • use cooperative grouping for instruction

  • encourage efforts to participate

  • ask how and why type questions

  • emphasize content area vocabulary

  • provide picture rich content area text, trade books, & magazines at student level

  • provide frequent opportunities to use English

  • provide opportunities for participation in early reading and writing activities

    modify work according to individual need

Learning/Assessment

 

 

Learning Tasks

 

recall                                   role-play

retell                                    select

define                                  describe

explain                                 organize

compare                               make up

 

 

 

 

Assessing Comprehension

 

  • Can you recall…?

  • Can you explain what is happening…

  • How would you use…?

  • How would you organize…?

  • What would happen if…?

  • What choice would you have made…?


         

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