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Teaching Your Secondary ELLs the Academic Language of Tests
Focusing on English Language Arts
Dr. Robert J. Marzano writes, “Teaching specific terms in a specific way is probably the strongest action a teacher can take to ensure that students have the academic background knowledge they need to understand the content they will encounter in school.” Teach your English language learners unfamiliar language features before they encounter these words in core content areas and standardized test questions.
Benefits
- Utilize evidence-based, teacher-friendly lesson plans that help English learners deal with unfamiliar language on standardized test questions.
- Examine background information on the relevance of lesson plans, materials lists, and graphic organizers.
- Learn differentiated teaching strategies to meet the needs of students at different proficiency levels.
- Study word lists divided by content area and grade level, along with practical strategies for classroom use.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Teaching the Language of the Reading-Objective Questions
Chapter 2: Teaching the Language of Revising and Editing
Chapter 3: Teaching the Language of the Open-Ended Response
Chapter 4: Teaching the ELA Academic Vocabulary
Appendix: The ELA Academic Vocabulary Word Lists
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
- “Best” Reading Questions
- English and Spanish Cognates: Nouns
- English and Spanish Cognates: Adjectives
- English and Spanish Cognates: Verbs
- English and Spanish Cognates: Adverbs
- The Cognate Restaurant
- El Restaurante de los Cognados
- False Cognates
- Greek and Latin Word Parts List
- Most Common Word Parts in Printed School English
- Word Web
- Word Parts Activity
- Word Parts Scavenger Hunt
- Multiple-Meaning Words Chart
- Teen Problems
- Advice Columns Answer Sheet
- Mix and Mingle Instructions
- Reading Question Stem Chart
- Reading Question Stem Cards
- Reading Question Stem Strips
- Warm-Ups—Uncorrected (Days 1–5)
- Warm-Ups—Uncorrected (Days 6–10)
- Warm-Ups—Uncorrected (Days 11–15)
- Warm-Ups—Uncorrected (Days 16–20)
- Warm-Up Passages
- Proofreader’s Marks
- Revising and Editing Question Stems
- Revising and Editing Responses
- Revising and Editing Academic Vocabulary Cards
- Plot Elements
- Plot Elements Sort Cards
- Plot Elements Mountain
- Plot Term Cards
- Story Section Cards
- Stick Figure Characterization
- Characterization Chart
- Character Traits
- Open-Ended Response Questions: Literary
- Open-Ended Response Questions: Expository
- Open-Ended Response Questions: Crossover
- WORDO Card
- Vocabulary Notebook
