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EXPANDING

(ACCESS score 4)

Teaching Resources

Overview

 

Students in this stage gradually make the transition to more elaborate speech.  With continued comprehensible input and communication –focused interactions, students may begin to link familiar phrases and generate sentences to express their ideas.  Teachers need to continually model language usage, extend receptive vocabulary and provide frequent opportunities for students to produce language in comfortable situations.

 

Characteristics

 

Students:

  • begin to speak in more complex sentences

  • may use incorrect grammar and verb forms

  • participate more often in large groups

  • need context clues in content area instruction

  • exhibit great vocabulary development

  • begin to think in the new language instead of translating from the native language




Adopted from Project Talk Academic Excellence Program and Title VII

Strategies

 

Teachers need to:

 

  • provide visually rich content instruction

  • design content activities that focus on speech production, not grammatical form

  • have students take on larger roles in cooperative group activities

  • provide extra time  or modify  assignments

  • introduce colloquialisms and idioms
     

Learning/Assessment

 

 

Learning Tasks

 

 

summarize                            classify

restate                                   extend

contrast                                 evaluate

predict                                   support

create                                     examine

 

 

 

 

Assessing Comprehension

 

 

  • How would you describe…?

  • Which statements support…?

  • What questions would you ask about…?

  • What is the relationship between…?

  • Can you predict the outcome if…?

  • Compare and contrast the…

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