Sentences with phrase «explicitly teach language»

Great curriculum for SLIFEs explicitly teaches language, deconstructs abstract concepts into the tangible, and activates prior knowledge while being age - appropriate.

All students — but especially struggling readers and students with dyslexia — benefit from structured literacy instruction that explicitly teaches language skills and the essential components of reading.

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Adoniou makes a claim that should be unremarkable — that any child who is explicitly taught about sentence structure (a key NAPLAN criterion), and in particular about the way that good writers use language to maximum effect, has the potential to develop as a confident writer and reader.

We have two main sources for identifying what words constitute academic language that we must explicitly teach.

• The most comprehensive reading program EXPLICITLY [sic] teaches about the sounds of language.

She concludes that if students are to achieve at higher levels, educators must emphasize ownership; push for biliteracy rather than using the home language only as a vehicle for English literacy; have students read multicultural literature; and teach skills explicitly, within the context of authentic literacy activities.

Learning words: In the communicative approach to language learning, vocabulary is often not taught explicitly.

In my classroom, I capitalize on morning meeting to explicitly teach social - emotional lessons and attempt to bring parents into the experience, as well, by posting about the language we use on our «Parent Portal,» so they can mirror it at home.

But I hadn't really had the framework of the different registers and the specific structures that are in place and the entire concept of explicitly teaching that to the students was kind of foreign to me... I hadn't really considered doing that before whereas now I see how valuable that is for students and how effective it is... how to actually explicitly teach that language so they're able to engage in that discussion instead of being perplexed that it wasn't happening.

Examples include using activities and strategies to enhance comprehension of science information (e.g., interactive questioning on expository text); focusing on language functions (e.g., describing, explaining, reporting, drawing conclusions in the context of science inquiry); explicitly teaching and reinforcing key vocabulary; and strategically using students» first language to enhance their understanding.

To teach them to read, they need to be explicitly taught the rules of the way written language works.

Results show that students, all of whom were English language learners in this particular study, performed significantly better on the posttest with vocabulary that they had been explicitly taught using intervention methods than on vocabulary they were exposed to, but not explicitly taught.