Finding ways to support student's literacy development is a crucial component that teachers must carefully plan out. Literacy development includes a verity of aspects such as vocabulary, reading, writing, and most certainly comprehension. One important thing to consider is activities that help all students comprehend what they are reading, learning, and writing about. It is vital that teachers plans out activities that allow students to dive in depth over their understanding on concepts. Student's ability to comprehend text should begin even before they actually start reading the text. Some ways to help facilitate literacy development is to included "Before-Reading" activities over vocabulary words and crucial background knowledge that students must have in order to fully relate and comprehend the text.
Down below is a lesson plan that includes a verity of activities that help support literacy development and understanding of text. This lesson includes activities over building predictions, curiosity over text, vocabulary and necessary pre- background knowledge. These activities are especially helpful for emergent bilinguals for there are specific components to the activities that help facilitate E.B student's comprehension and proficiency in English.
Some of the Specific features of Emergent Bilingual support are:
Take Note: Information above was gather from- Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners written by Wayne Wright
and WIDA website
Down below is a lesson plan that includes a verity of activities that help support literacy development and understanding of text. This lesson includes activities over building predictions, curiosity over text, vocabulary and necessary pre- background knowledge. These activities are especially helpful for emergent bilinguals for there are specific components to the activities that help facilitate E.B student's comprehension and proficiency in English.
Some of the Specific features of Emergent Bilingual support are:
- Required communication or talk within heterogeneous group- Ample research suggests that emergent bilinguals English proficiency development and comprehension requires one to participate in talk. Talking among peers, EB's will be provided input and scaffolding from their members.
- Students are all given a role within the group; this further helps build EB's academic identity for each student within the group is provide the opportunity to contribute to the groups accomplishments
- Graphic organizer- Through each groups work all students are provide a visual graphic organizer over vocabulary words that help build valuable and necessary background knowledge over concepts that will further be linked to the reading. These graphic organizers should be hung up in the front of the class so that students can refer back to them and refresh understanding.
- During research students will be able to gain more understanding through a verity of other text and pictures related to concepts.
- Reflection and Class discussion over group work- every time the class comes back together main ideas that the groups came up with is restated and re-clarified by students and/or teacher. This is allowing multiple opportunities for EB students to hear information in different ways with different explanations and references.
Take Note: Information above was gather from- Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners written by Wayne Wright
and WIDA website