Making Content Comprehensible – Rebecca Oney

1. Lesson Preparation j. Create a poem, song, chant, or play

a. Adaption of Content 5. Interaction
b. Graphic Organizers a. Encourage more elaborate responses
c. Outlines b. Foster student to student interaction
d. Highlighted text c. Use variety of groupings during each lesson
e. Marginal notes d. Information gap activities
f. Taped text e. Jigsaw
g. Adapted text f. Roundtable – open-ended questions
h. Jigsaw text reading g. 3 step interview
i. Leveled study guides h. Send a problem
2. Building Background i. Wait time
a. Contextualizing key vocabulary 6. Practice and Application
b. Vocabulary self-selection a. Multiple opportunities for practice
c. Personal dictionaries b. Hands on practice/experiences
d. Content word wall c. Connect abstract concepts with concrete
e. Concept definition map experiences
f. Cloze sentences d. Apply concepts in a personally relevant
g. Word sorts way
h. Word generation e. Discuss and do
i. Visual vocabulary f. Use social interaction
j. Vocabulary through songs g. Model correct English
3. Comprehensible Input h. Recognize reading, writing, listening, and
a. Appropriate speech speaking are interrelated and integrated
b. Explanation of academic tasks i. Develop language skills holistically
c. Use of variety of techniques j. Practice in one area promotes
d. Pre-teach key vocab development in others
e. Multiple exposures 7. Lesson Delivery
f. Model techniques a. Content objectives
g. Gestures when presenting lessons b. Language objectives
h. Hands on activities c. Student engagement
i. Sentence strips d. Pacing
j. Multimedia and other technology 8. Review and Assessment
4. Strategies a. Review of key vocab
a. Mnemonics b. Paraphrasing
b. “I wonder” Brainstorming c. Systematic study
c. GISt summarizing d. Word study books
d. Graphic organizers e. “School Talk” sessions
e. Procedural scaffolding: whole class -> small f. Review key concepts
groups -> partners -> indedepent g. Periodic review
f. Thinking cube to generate higher order h. Oral, written, gestural feedback
thinking questions i. Informal assessments
g. Question cube j. Authentic assessments
h. Question Answer Relationships
i. QtA – Questioning the Author