Content vs. Language Objectives

Essential Question

• How do you support students with the language demands of a lesson?

Goals

• I can write language and content objectives
• I can incoporate Lang. and Content objectives into my daily GANAGE lessons

GANAGE

GANAGE

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Why?

• Our students have a diverse range of English proficiency.
• To provide all students with varying language supports.
• Content does not vary depending on a student’s language proficiency. However, the way students will come to understand and then express their knowledge of the content will vary.

Why?

• Create metalinguistic awareness in our students

Why?

• Create metalinguistic awareness in our students

What ?

• Assessment language that minimizes interference with student's ability to demonstrate content understanding

What ?

• Materials that present content with more accessible reading level
• Student engagement that allows them to practice the language of the discipline

Student Perspective

• Recognize differences in language based on task, purpose and audience

Student Perspective

• Intentionally and purposefully use precise and varied grade level and domain specific vocabulary

Student Perspective

• Adjust oral and written language in a range of contexts across the disciplines

Teacher Perspective

• Plan for Content learning
• Plan For Language that students must use to communicate understanding
• Plan to explicity teach language

Teacher Perspective

• Communicate Content and langugae objectives to students
• Support students to self-monitor and evaluate their learning

How?

• Content-Use standards
• Determine Language Function
• Determine Domain
• Form-What you want to read/hear

Content Standards

• Choose the Appropriate standard for the lesson

Function (DOK level)

• The observable action students will complete with language

Function Examples

• List, label, name, recall
• Compare, Infer, Predict
• Critique, Differentiate, Assess
• Analzye, Synthesis, Connect

Language Domain

• Listening
• Speaking
• Reading
• Writing

Form

• Grammatical Features
• Type of Language-conjunctions, adverbs, modals, complete sentences, etc.
• HEAR and READ

Practice

• Circle--Language Function
• Underline--Language From

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