Your students won't be able to master the standard without
the necessary academic language.
Not exact matches
These same strategies also support ELL students in their acquisition of
academic language, which is so
necessary for school success but is the very thing that had often tripped them up in their past reading of texts.
Under the supervision of the Principal and Student Services Manager, Education Specialist is responsible for the success of students in the primary
academic areas (reading, writing,
language, and / or math, etc) through implementing Voices approved curriculum; documenting teaching and student progress / activities / outcomes; modeling the
necessary skills to perform assignments; providing a safe and optimal learning environment and providing feedback to students, classroom teachers, parents and administration regarding student progress, expectations, goal, etc..
Researchers, reading specialists, second -
language - acquisition experts, and linguists agree that explicit instruction in vocabulary is
necessary for students to have robust
academic vocabularies.
Language frames are cloze statements that provide students with the
academic language necessary to explain, justify, clarify, and ask for evidence.
While no single tool will provide students, particularly English
language learners, with all the vocabulary knowledge they need, we hope WordSift can provide teachers and students with new ways of building the rich word knowledge
necessary for
academic success.