Bonnie Coffman

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Bridging the Gap

• Bonnie Coffman

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Working Together
Teachers
Strategies
Students
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Strategies

• Provide clues to meaning
• Modify your speech
• Be an active listener
• Check comprehension

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Help Students Succeed

• Simplify the language of instruction, but not the
  content

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Work Toward Depth, Not Breadth of Information

• Students say
• Big books are intimidating
• Too much, too fast offers little or no learning
• They memorize for the test only

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Impart Information

• Graphic organizers
• Webs
• Venn diagrams
• Charts
• Realia
• Picture files
• Hands on activities

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Guiding the Way

• Modify the assignments for newcomers.
• Choose one question or a few key vocabulary words
  for them to learn.

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The Key To Learning

• Make it comprehensible
• Empower the students to become active learners,
  not passive recipients

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Web Sites

• www.lingolex.com
• www.onestopenglish.com
• www.eslcafe.com
• www.studyspanish.com
• www.better-english.com
• www.ade.state.az.us

For more information contact
bcoffman_at_qcusd.org