Ideas and Activities to Differentiate Instruction through Review and Assessment

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Ideas and Activities to Differentiate Instruction
through Review and Assessment

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Learning Targets

• Content Targets
• Select techniques for reviewing key content
  concepts.
• Incorporate a variety of assessment techniques
  into lessons.
• Describe the challenges in assessing the content
  learning of students with limited English
  proficiency.
• Language Targets
• Write a lesson plan that includes review of key
  vocabulary.
• Teach a lesson with group response techniques.
• Orally provide feedback to ELs that enhances
  language development.
• Use oral, written, and physical means to provide
  specific feedback to students on their
  performance.

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Effective Teaching Cycle for English Learners

Develop Lesson Using Assessment, Standards, and
SIOP Model
Teach Lesson
Reteach
Assess Student Comprehension and Student work
Make Adjustments to Improve Student
Comprehension
Review Key Concepts And Vocabulary
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SIOP Feature 27

• Comprehensive Review of Key Vocabulary

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Vocabulary Review -- Do this

• Do
• Provide multiple exposures to new terminology to
  build familiarity, confidence and proficiency.
• Paraphrase it provides and effective scaffold ,
  especially after words and phrases have been
  previously defined and discussed in context.
• Do use pictures and nonprint (gestures,
  role-play, Pictionary, charades.)
• Help students become more familiar with academic
  language through introducing and modeling
  academic tasks.
• Have students create personal Word Study Books

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Vocabulary Review -- Dont do this

• Dont
• give the dreaded word list on which students
  must write (or copy) dictionary definitions!!!
• Research is very clear isolated word lists
  and dictionary definitions alone do not promote
  vocabulary and language development.
• just orally introduce and define vocabulary
  students will not remember!!

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SIOP Feature 28

• Comprehensive Review of Key Content Concepts

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Wrap up Techniques

• I wonder
• I discovered
• I still want to know
• I learned
• I still dont understand
• I still have a question about
• I will ask a friend about

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SIOP Feature 29

• Regular Feedback Provided to Students on Their
  Output

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SIOP Feature 30

• Assessment of Student Comprehension and Learning
  all Lesson Objectives throughout the lesson.

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Ticket Out

• How are you going
• to change review and
• assessment in your
• classroom ?