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= = =**Professional Development Assignment Lesson**=



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I have no idea what we are doing for this. Carrie, did you grab the topic? What is it? -Megan

Hola chicas,

Our topic is "Comprehensible Input," it's credited to a professor/big name in ESL named Stephen Krashen. You can check out his website at [|www.sdkrashen.com], I think. It's something like that. I have a lot of old ESL books/notes that I'm sure have info on this.

The theory basically says that you have to go just above what a child knows but not too far above in order for them to learn and advance. (It's not rocket science...haha!) I guess he was just one of the first to coin a term for it.

I'll look into more after I get some more stuff squared away with Megan on the math project. -Rebecca

I'll be gathering information too. I knew Rebecca would be in the know on this one. Malerie and Megan, y'all will know all about Krashen after EESL 610. It seemed like a good topic to pick. Cindy H thought so too. -Carrie

Here's some pertinent info (there's a whole chapter in the book I have, Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model.":

(from old notes:) -Comprehensible input is the language that students understand through the context of a situation -Need to: build consistency in classroom routines, create word walls, display pictures/graphics, repeat/rephrase, use visual cues, use whole body to convey message -Is "input/instruction that is just above the students abilities. Instruction that is embedded in a meaningful context, midified, collaborative/interactive, and multimodal.

(from book:) -"Comprehensible input is achieved when teachers pay attention to the unique linguistic needs of ELs and consistently incorporate these techniques into their daily teaching routines" (p. 79) -avoid idiosm, paraphrase, repeat, use cognates, simplify sentence structure (p. 80-81) -clearly explain academic tasks -there's a long list of techniques to make content concepts clear

That's the gist -Rebecca