Deepening the use of the ELD Strategies Across the Curriculum

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Deepening the use of the ELD Strategies Across
the Curriculum

• Local District 1
• Elementary Principals Meeting
• October 8, 2008

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The Purpose for the ELD Strategies

• Increase student voice
• Increase student access to content
• Use the strategies as intended in the enhanced
  Into English! TBLT lessons

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REFLECTIONThink-Pair-Share

• 1. How did you provide professional development
  on the two strategies, Think-Pair-Share and RASP?
• 2. How are you supporting and monitoring your
  teachers with the implementation of the two
  strategies?
• 3. What changes in teacher practice and student
  learning have you seen as a result of
  implementing Think-Pair-Share and RASP?

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Focus for October

• Focus on two ELD strategies this month
• Pull Out and Talk
• Pull Out and Write

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ELD Strategies
Pull Out and Talk / Write
Definition Pull Out and Talk/Write is a
strategy that guides students to engage in
extended oral discourse by using two scaffolds a
Communication Guide and a Thinking Map.
The teacher models composing and writing
appropriate responses based on the students ELD
level(s).
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ELD Strategies
Pull Out and Talk / Write

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Thinking Maps
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VIDEOThink-Pair-Share

• 1st Grade
• Day 1
• Teacher models Pull Out and Talk
• All students practice Pull Out and Talk
• Day 2
• Students use the Pull Out and Write strategy

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Application Activity 1

• Read the content lesson in your tables folder.
  (Science, Math or Language Arts)
• Notice the Thinking Maps created from the lesson.
• Read the Communication Guide.
• Use the Tree Map to sort differentiated student
  responses (simple/elaborated/complex).
• For the whole group discussion, be prepared to
  demonstrate and explain your example.

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Group Share
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Application Activity 2

• Read the content lesson in your tables folder.
  (Science, Math or Language Arts)
• Identify the thought process of the lesson and
  appropriate Thinking Map.
• Create a Thinking Map based on the lesson.
• Create a Communication Guide.
• Create sample student responses
  (simple/elaborated/complex).
• Be prepared to share with the whole group.

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Group Share
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ELD Instructional Tool

• Introduction of the Local District 1
• Modified Instructional Tool
• Narrowing the focus
• Providing access to teachers and administrators

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September
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October