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Maximizing Comprehension
Focusing on the Language
Content Objective: Participants will be able to develop and
implement Language Objectives.
Language Objectives:Listening: Listen to group discussion Reading/Speaking: Participants will identify and discuss the three components of a Language Objective.Writing: Participants will write Language Objectives with a partner using a graphic organizer.
Objectives
To provide access to the content by building a student’s understanding of the academic language.
To provide a focus for how a student communicates knowledge of the content through writing and speaking.
To provide a focus of how and what students understand through listening and reading.
Purposes for Creating Language Objectives
Three Parts of a Language Objective
Language FunctionExample: explain, describe, compare
Content Stem(ALCOS Objective)
Supportvisual aids, graphic
organizers, and videos
Language Function
A Language Function describes what you expect the students to be
able to do and how the students will communicate what they know
(verb).
Language Functions Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5
IdentifyFollowLocateNameListenPointSelectRespondCircleSortLabelDrawColorMatchRepeat
IdentifyFollowLocateDescribeRole playPredictCompare & ContrastRespondClassify
IdentifyDescribeRole playPredict Compare & ContrastInferSequenceIllustrateNarrateSummarizeRewriteInterpret
IdentifyDescribePredictAnalyzeApplyCompare & ContrastInferNarrateSummarizeRewriteDepictExplainCategorize
PredictSummarizeRewriteParaphraseAnalyzeApplyDefendPersuadeDebateEditReviseJustifyCreateGenerateInterpret
The content stem is what is being covered in class based on the Alabama
Course of Study
Content Stem
The tools/strategies you will provide to assist students in accessing the language and knowledge required for the
content.
Support
Make A List of Supports
You Will
• Brainstorm and write a list of supports you can use in any lesson
• Get a partner and discuss your supports
• Share your supports with whole group
Support
Sensory Supports
Graphic Supports
Interactive supports
• Real-life objects• Manipulatives• Picture/photos• Illustrations• Diagrams• Drawings• Videos• Broadcasts• Models• Magazines• Newspapers
• Charts• Graphic
organizers• Tables• Graphs• Timelines• Number lines
• Pairs/Partners• Small groups• Whole group• Websites/software• Native language• Peers/mentors
WIDA Consortium (pg. RG 21)
Sensory Supports related to specific content areas.
Language Arts
Mathematics
Science Social Studies
• Illustrated word/phrase wall
• Felt or magnetic figures of story elements
• Sequence blocks• Environmental
print• Posters, bulletin
boards or displays
• Audio books• Songs/Chants
• Blocks/Cubes• Models of
geometric figures
• Calculators• Protractors,
compasses• Rulers,
yards/meter sticks
• Counters• Coins
• Scientific instruments
• Physical models,
• Measurement tools
• Posters/• Illustrations of
process or cycles
• Actual substances, objects or organisms
• Natural materials
• Maps and Atlases
• Globes• Compasses• Timelines• Multicultural
artifacts/photo• Aerial &
satellite photographs
• Video clips
Supports
Three Parts of a Language Objective
Content StemLanguage Function
Support
Putting It All Together
Content Stem
Examples from ALCoS
Grade 6 Mathematics (2003)
8.) Determine the distance between two points on a scale drawing or a map using proportional reasoning.
Grade 3 Science (2005)
6.) Identify structures and functions of the muscular and skeletal systems of the human body.
Grade 11 English Language Arts (2007)
4.) Analyze twentieth and twenty-first century American literary selections for plot structure, cultural significance, and use of propaganda.
Language Objectives
Applying What You Know
• Sequence plots of adventures using visual support and share with a peer.
• Identify Earth’s layers using visual support and graphic organizers.
• Describe sequence of events related to characters and settings in illustrated folktales using graphic organizers.
• Classify scientific tools or instruments with pictures and labels from oral directions (e.g., “Telescopes and sundials go with the sky.”)
Language Function
• List• Create• Identify• Match• Explain• Discuss• Infer• Analyze• Evaluate• Interpret• Compare/
contrast• Summarize• Predict
Content Stem
• Economic trends• Major social
issues• Author’s
perspective• Main
idea/supporting detail
• Perimeter, area, volume or circumference
• Measurement in real-life situations
Support
• With a partner• Using a
sentence stem• Using real
objects• Using graphic
organizers• Using visuals• Using L1 (first
language)
Your Turn
Reviewing Your Lesson Plans
• With a partner, take turns reviewing each others lesson plans.
• Work together to write language objectives for one lesson plan.
• Now work together to write language objectives for the second lesson plan.
• Be prepared to tell us why you selected your language objectives.
• Share in whole group.
What Is Next?
• Before you leave, schedule a date and time for us to walkthrough your classroom and observe your lesson incorporating language objectives
What to Expect
Read the Walkthrough Language Objectives Module Form
Ask Questions in whole group
For more informationRefer to:
WIDA Consortium English Language Proficiency Standards And Resource
Guide 2007 Edition
or
WIDA website:www.wida.us