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Effective Lesson Planning Strategies

The document provides guidance for making content comprehensible for English language learners. It recommends clearly defining content and language objectives, choosing age-appropriate concepts, using supplementary materials, and adapting content for different proficiency levels. It also stresses the importance of comprehensible input through various techniques, building on students' background experiences, emphasizing key vocabulary, providing strategies practice with scaffolding, allowing interaction and discussion in groupings, and giving opportunities for clarification. Hands-on practice and application of content and language knowledge is also advised. Lessons should support objectives, engage students, have appropriate pacing, and include review, feedback, and assessment of comprehension.

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Effective Lesson Planning Strategies

The document provides guidance for making content comprehensible for English language learners. It recommends clearly defining content and language objectives, choosing age-appropriate concepts, using supplementary materials, and adapting content for different proficiency levels. It also stresses the importance of comprehensible input through various techniques, building on students' background experiences, emphasizing key vocabulary, providing strategies practice with scaffolding, allowing interaction and discussion in groupings, and giving opportunities for clarification. Hands-on practice and application of content and language knowledge is also advised. Lessons should support objectives, engage students, have appropriate pacing, and include review, feedback, and assessment of comprehension.

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Making content comprehensible

Preparation
Clearly define content
objectives. (write on
board)
Clearly define language
objectives. (write on
board)
Choose age appropriate
concepts/ fit the
educational
background.
Use supplementary
materials to make
lessons more clear and
meaningful.
Adapt content to all
levels of student
proficiency.
Provide meaningful and
authentic activities that
integrate lesson
concepts

Comprehensible Input
Speak appropriately to
accommodate student
proficiency level.
Clearly explain
academic tasks.
Use a variety of
techniques to make
content concepts clear

Building Background
Explicitly link concepts to
students background
experience.
Make clear links between
students past learning and
new concepts.

Emphasize key vocabulary.

Strategies
Provide ample
opportunities for
students to use
strategies.
Consistently use
scaffolding techniques
throughout the lesson.
Employ a variety of
question types.

Interaction
Provide frequent
opportunity for interaction
and discussion.
Group students to support
language and content
objectives.
Consistently afford
sufficient wait times.
Give ample opportunities
for clarification for concepts

Practice/Application
Supply lots of hands on
materials.
Provide activities for
students to apply
content language
knowledge.
Integrate all language
skills into each lesson.

Making Content
Comprehensible 2
Lesson delivery
Clearly support content
objectives.
Clearly support language
objectives.
Engage students 90-100%
of the lesson.
Appropriately pace the
lesson to students ability
level

Review/Assessment
Provide comprehensive
review of key vocabulary.
Supply comprehensive
review of key content
concepts.
Regularly give feedback to
students on their output.
Conduct assessments of
student comprehension
and learning

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