Ideas and Activities to Differentiate Instruction through Lesson Preparation

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Ideas and Activities to Differentiate Instruction
through Lesson Preparation

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Understanding of Concepts

• When students are provided with specific
  information about what they will learn and are
  expected to do in each lesson, their
  understanding of content concepts is enhanced.

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Language Proficiency

• When English learners are provided with specific
  information about how they are developing
  knowledge of English during each lesson, their
  language proficiency is enhanced.

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Standards Based

• Effective SIOP lessons require careful planning
  with specific content and language objectives for
  each lesson so that students know precisely what
  they will do and learn. These objectives are
  derived from a variety of sources, including
  state and district standards, TESOL standards for
  English learners, the SIOP lesson planning
  checklist, and colleagues ideas.

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Content Objectives Clearly Defined, Displayed,
and Reviewed with Students

Content Objective Usually relates to a State
Standard.
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Language Objectives Clearly Defined, Displayed,
and Reviewed with Students
Language Objective Concrete Language Objectives
identify what students should know and be able to
do.
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Content Concepts Appropriate for Age and
Educational Background

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Supplementary Materials Used to a High Degree

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Examples of Supplementary Material

• Hands on Manipulatives
• Realia
• Pictures
• Visuals
• Multimedia
• Demonstrations
• Related Literature
• Hi-lo Readers
• Adapted Text

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Adaptation of Content to All Levels of Student
Proficiency

• In many schools, teachers are required to teach
  from textbooks that are too difficult for English
  learners to read. When we water down the text
  to a point where all students can read it the
  important content concepts are frequently
  losttherefore we must find ways to make the text
  and other resource materials accessible for all
  students, adapting them so that the content
  concepts are left intact.

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Adaptation can be used throughout the lesson.

• Pre-reading instructional strategy
• As an Aid during reading
• Post-reading method for organizing newly learned
  information

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Examples of Adaptations

• Graphic Organizers
• Outlines
• Leveled Study Guides
• Highlighted Text
• Taped Text
• Adapted Text
• Jigsaw Text Reading
• Marginal Notes
• Native Language Texts

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Meaningful Activities That Integrate Lesson
Concepts with Language Practice Opportunities

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Ticket Out

• What are the three most important ideas that you
  have learned about lesson preparation.