Here are some ways to make a text more comprehensible to the English learners in your classroom:
- Supply an advance organizer for the text that highlights they key topics and concepts in outline form, as focus questions, or in the form of concept maps
- Change the modality from written to oral. By reading aloud, you can also model the press of posing questions while reading to show prediction strategies used when working with text
- Tape-record selected passages for students to listen to as they read along in the text. These recordings could even be uploaded to your class website or blog for students to access at home.
- Develop a study guide for the text. For each reading section, create ten sentences that reflect the main ideas, then turn each sentence into a question or selectively omit key words that students must supply
- Ask student to work in groups so they can share their notes and help one another complete missing parts or correct misunderstood concepts
Try one of these ideas in your classroom today!
These ideas were taken from a great book called The Crosscultural, Language, and Academic Devlopment Handbook by Lynne T. Diaz-Rico and Kathryn Z. Weed
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