Academic Language Development

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Academic Language Development

• Alison A. Kelly, ELD Coach
• Alison_Kelly_at_berkeley.k12.ca.us
• 644-4829

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Learning Objectives

• Teachers will learn how to set up accountability
  structures in the classroom to check for
  understanding
• Teachers will learn how to activate accurate oral
  fluency through precision partnering and the use
  of response frames
• Teachers will identify the language forms and
  function in a given text

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Structured Accountable Verbal Engagement by ELs

• English Learners engage in student talk only 4
  of their school day.
• English Learners discuss focal lesson content
  only 2 of their school day, rarely speaking in
  complete sentences or applying relevant academic
  language.
• Arreaga-Mayer Perdomo-Rivera, 1996

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Im surprised that English Learners ____________.
Response Frame 1
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Structured Accountable Responses Nonverbal
Physical Responses

• Focus visually (on board, text, teacher)
• Mark (highlight, underline, circle, check)
• Point at something (text, object)
• Track while reading (w/finger or card)
• Hand signals (thumbs up, raised hand)
• Refocus signals (1,2,3. Eyes on me!)

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Response Frame 2

• I have my students ________ when they __________.

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Structured Accountable Responses Verbal Responses

• Choral response (whole class in unison)
• Individual (randomly without hand-raising)
• Individual (voluntary after randomly)
• Respond with a sentence frame provided
• Partner interaction with language target
• Small group with language target
• Use of public voice during class discussion

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Response Frame 3

• I like to use ______ by ______.
• Response Frame 4
• _________ said that ________.

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Structured Accountable Responses Written
Responses

• Copy content from the board or screen
• Fill in a blank with an answer
• Structured note-taking with a guide
• Complete a sentence frame
• Fill in a visual organizer or thinking map
• Focused quick-write
• Brainstorming a written list of ideas

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Response Frame 5

• Id like to try _______,
• but Im not sure ________.

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Academic Talk

• Academic talk is structured and accountable
  classroom interaction addressing focal lesson
  content, framed in complete sentences with
  appropriate vocabulary, syntax and grammar.
• Kinsella, 2006

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• ACCURATE ORAL FLUENCY
• Ease in accurately producing target language
  forms (vocabulary, syntax, grammar) for a range
  of purposes and ability to comprehend
  sophisticated language

• ORAL FLUENCY vs.
• Ease of language production and listening
  comprehension

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Response Frame 6

• Accurate Oral Fluency emphasizes ______, but Oral
  Fluency doesnt necessarily ______.
• Response Frame 7
• We concluded that __________.

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Precision Partnering

• Arrange seating conducive to partnering
• Assign partners thoughtfully rather than randomly
• Change partners routinely (by month, by unit)
• Designate who is partner 1 2, Green or Red
• Designate who speaks first for a particular task
• Assign a concrete task and a specific time frame
• Check for understanding of task expectations
• Provide a clearly displayed response frame and
  model appropriate use, verbally and in writing
• Assign a related follow-up task for fast finishers

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Scaffolded Word Bank

• Academic
• concerns
• necessitates
• entails
• calls for

• Casual
• has to do with
• means
• Involves

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Response Frame 8

• Precision partnering means that you ________.
• Precision partnering requires that you
  ________.

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Follow-up Tasks

• Share a second idea using the response frame
• Share another idea using a challenge frame
• Write your idea in your notebook
• Paraphrase your partners idea
• Write your partners idea in your notebook
• Prepare to report your partners idea
• Decide together which answer is the strongest

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Language Forms Functions

• Appropriate language functions for K-5
• Differentiated sentence frames for ELs
• Partner task
• Identify a language function embedded in
  text/story
• Design a response frame utilizing the language
  function
• Create a guiding question that elicits the use of
  the response frame

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QUESTIONS ANSWERS..