Instructional Strategies for ESL Students Checklist
Checking students comprehension of the o Teaching a multi level class:
content: o Use cooperative learning o Use sentence strips o Incorporate peer tutoring o Set up dialogue journals between teacher and o Use the Writing Process student o Explicitly connect learning to students o Plan activities using role play and drama knowledge and experience o Use student reading logs o Take time to preview and explain new o Use Cloze exercises concepts and vocabulary before starting o Write summaries instruction o Encourage students to write headlines o Use questionnaires / interviews o Write character diaries o Have students present information with o Motivating students and providing illustrations, comic strips, or other visual background knowledge: representations o Use Semantic Webbing and graphic o Allow students to provide answers and explain organizers processes instead of you telling them o Use Anticipation Reaction Guides o Have students brainstorm, then record Helping ESL students adjust to the classroom: responses on overhead before starting o State / display language, content and lessons metacognitive objectives o Use KWL charts o List instructions / process steps and review o Use realia, maps, photos, and manipulatives orally o Do activities where students can interact o Present information in varied ways (oral, and move around written, demonstrations, with tangible objects) o Adapting ESL techniques to the content o Frequently summarize key points classroom: o Repeat and paraphrase important terms o Have students do hands-on activities o Provide Word Wall with vocabulary for unit o Do demonstrations / chapter o Use CDs, cassettes and videotapes with o Have students maintain notebook books o Have student maintain learning log for o Use a variety of groupings so that ESL metacognitive strategies students can interact with different o Allow sufficient response time classmates (not only the Spanish speaking ones!) o Adjusting teaching style: o Provide students with outline of lesson and o Develop a student centered approach questions that will be asked beforehand so o Speak a little more slowly (not louder ), they have an opportunity to process use shorter sentences, and avoid idioms information and participate more readily o Increase the percentage of inferential and o The overhead projector is your best friend higher order thinking questions use it every day to model highlighting o Provide correction for language errors by text, identifying main ideas or new modeling, not overt correction vocabulary or to show pictures.