Comprehensible Input

What kinds of thinking is expected in your subject?

Prompt posters for ideas with deeper thinking
(Robb 2003)

Prompt poster examples

• Explain different solutions or sides to the issue.
• Have your thoughts on this topic changed? Why or why not?
• Persuade us to take a side of an issue.
• Connect this topic or issue to another text or situation.
• Use data, examples, or other evidence to suggest a change

Key types of thinking in English

• Interpreting events or characters of texts
• Uncovering author's messages and themes
• Recognising literary devices
• Analysing  the author's craft, comparing texts, etc.
• Interpretation, argumentation, cause and effect

History

• Comparing, sythesising, persuading, analysing, classifying
• Cause and Effect
• Suspending judgement about the past and realising bias.
• Interpretation
• Perspective taking

Analyse an article or a passage from a text in your subject area. What kinds of thinking are required to understand it? What language triggers that thinking?

Five low prep activities to enhance A. L.

• Think, pair share, square
• Quick-writes
• Students to write answers to questions and discuss
• Drama - based activities with students in roles
• Give one, get one.

Bob's your uncle