Annotations for Research-based Practices for English Language Learners - Carolyn Derby Page 1-

ELL - English Language Learners

The strategies here would cater to diverse groups.

The goals of the reading programme is for understanding, learning and interest.

For the upper Primary (my thoughts), they would have foundational skills like phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency and vocabulary.

The Main Strategy
1) Explicit Skill instruction
2) Student-directed activities
3) Instructional strategies that enhance understanding
4) opportunities to practise
5) Systematic student assessment

How to improve retention
1) Routines
2) embeds redunacy in lessons
3) provide explicit discussion of vocabulary and structure

1st session - 15 November

Learned that I needed to do the following which would be the sequence that I would need to follow if I were to have others follow my strategies:

1) Learn and read up on the target strategy

2) Teach the students

3) Teach the teachers

4) Make the teachers do it

5) Observe and check

The SIG leader, Cecilia believes in explicit teaching

The advantage of school-based programme is that is minimises confusion for the students.

Mini Action Research

1) Keeping Compotent scores (Cecilia to email the MS Excel files)

Join up ASCD

Higher Order Thinking - May need to link it with Bloom Taxonmy

Need to equip the students with the tools and make them aware of their own metacognitive abilities

Reading Comprehension:

1) Understand the passage

2) Answer the questions

Responding to a stimulus

Annotation meant to unpack the cultural meaning, redunancy features: saying the same things but in a different way, lexical density.

To help convince the students

1) Show good and poor students' annotations

Used hooks in the pre-reading parts

Raising consciousness

1) Pre-reading - Hooks; build up their schemas

2) While-reading - unpack language and ideas in the passage

3) Post-reading - answering questions

For the actual annotations:

1) Use purple pens - shows up better on the visualiser

2) Two types of highlighters

Writing:

Show the areas where they should have used the writing strategy taught and once they have done so, show it with special marks (e.g. stars)