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"Focused Approach to Frontloading English Language Instruction for OCR is making a huge difference for our EL population. It has revolutionized our thinking and teaching of language. Now teachers have a concrete understanding of how and what to teach to facilitate language development. The frames provide tools for ALL students to participate in rich discussions and refine their language skills." –Vivian Hanson, Literacy Coach
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A Focused Approach to Frontloading English Language Instruction for Open Court Reading, K-6
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DESCRIPTION:
CRLP Focused Approach to Frontloading Language for Open Court Reading is designed to support English Learners and the teachers who serve them. This 20 hour professional development institute prepares teachers to effectively teach language throughout the instructional day with particular emphasis on how to link language instruction to reading instruction using the California State Board-adopted Open Court Reading program.
Frontloading Language is pre-teaching grammatical forms, sentence structures, and vocabulary for an upcoming lesson. The objective of Frontloading Language is to prepare students in advance for upcoming language demands which are likely to interfere with comprehension and participation. Through frontloading language, English Learners are ensured access to the core curriculum because they are explicitly taught the sentence structures and vocabulary needed to both learn and demonstrate their understanding of content skills and concepts.
OUTCOMES:
Through presentation, demonstration, and group interaction, training participants will:
- Learn how to use the new Open Court Reading English Learner Support Guide.
- Realize the distinction between simply teaching in English and effectively teaching English.
- Increase their knowledge of the competencies and instructional needs of students in each of the five levels of English proficiency.
- Become more familiar with the general principles of second-language learning and the related, but distinct purposes of English language instruction.
- Learn an approach for planning frontloading language instruction by analyzing the concept and skill requirements for Open Court Reading language arts lessons.
- Gain strategies for providing structured opportunities for both oral and written student language practice and application.
HOW WILL ENGLISH LEARNERS BENEFIT?
- Targeted and effective language instruction directly linked to each Open Court Reading comprehension skill
- Improved listening and reading comprehension
- Improved oral and written language production
- Increased oral automaticity
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION AND RESOURCES:
The Institute Handbook Includes:
- Support for each component of the new Open Court Reading English Learner Support Guide
- Collaborative learning strategies to practice the language taught
- Graphic organizers linked to Open Court Reading comprehension skills
- Sample lesson outlines for the comprehension skills addressed in Open Court Reading
- ELD Matrix of Grammatical Forms
- CRLP will work with school and district leaders to customize the 20-hour institute.
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