PPT-Building Language and Academic Knowledge ‐ but What About Comprehension

Content Area Literacy Instruction CALI Carol M Connor University of California Irvine Christopher Lonigan Beth Phillips Florida State University ETSRFU Conference DC May 2016 What does it take to attach meaning to text . Extending the Conversation. Key Components of Effective Instruction ELLs. Focus on Academic Language, Literacy, & Vocabulary. Link To and/or Build Background. Support Student Comprehension. Promote Interaction. . Hugh W. Catts, Ph.D.. University of Kansas. NIU 2013. Outline. Model of reading comprehension. Language basis of comprehension difficulties. Evidence for language basis. Early identification. Reading Comprehension. Perry Flynn. pfflynn@uncg.edu. Lynne Loeser. lynne.loeser@dpi.nc.gov. The Process. Assessment. A Variety of Assessment Tools. Observations. Benchmark testing. Universal screening results. Classroom work samples. Comprehension Toolkit. Figurative language 1. Comprehension Toolkit. Figurative language 1. Comprehension. means . understanding. . . The answers to some questions are easy to find, while the answers to others are more difficult to work out. BACKGROUND. SIOP: Ensuring that English Language Learners have access to subject-area work.. SIOP Defined: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyqUHWV0XuU. 3. Example: What is the main idea of this passage?. Overview and the ABCD. A practical application of . research-based principles. Overview. Day 1: Literacy: Where we’re going. Day 1: Planning instruction using ABCD. Day 2: Reading strategies. Day 3: Higher-order thinking … Facilitating discussion. Looking across the RFU projects for some insights about what we have learned that might inform reading theory, practice, and policy. P. David Pearson. UC Berkeley. RFU: A synthesis. RFU. : Toward a synthesis. Presentation . of Language in Motion (LIM) Intervention and Results in Prekindergarten and Kindergarten. Beth M. Phillips. May, 2016. Acknowledgements. IES. Co-Investigators: Carol Connor, Young-Suk Kim, Stephanie Al Otaiba, Kenn Apel, Mike Kaschak, Chris Lonigan. Presentation by Claire, Elesha, Fatima, Juhee and Lala. Knowledge Framework vs. Knowledge Structure. . Knowledge Framework (KF). Knowledge Structure (KS). . Way to organize knowledge so students can learn the language: “to learn through language and to learn about language”. Barbara Foorman, Ph.D., Professor & Director, Florida Center for Reading Research & the REL Southeast. This information is being provided as part of a webinar administered by the U.S. Department of Education, with support from the Institute of Education Sciences’ National Center for Education Research (NCER) and National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE). . Vocabulary 3b Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. This is the first presentation in a series of 3 sponsored by the New York State Education Department Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages (OBEWL).. The goal is to support teachers in scaffolding English language Arts instruction for English language learners/Multilingual language learners (ELLs/MLLs). . Grades . 6–8 ELA I. Day 3.  . Welcome Back!. 2. Plusses. /Deltas . 3. We will be experiencing and building on ideas about knowledge, . comprehension, . and fluency.. Some reading of complex text and learning new ideas (feeling what students might feel), some thinking like teachers (what does it look like in the classroom? . Alex Ding. The University of Leeds. Ian Bruce. The University of Waikato, New Zealand. Joint Book Project: Aim. To develop a more comprehensive theoretical framing of the dimensions of academic language based on the categories of Ferguson (1997). .