Scenario Response 10

Criteria for High Quality Language Instruction:

• aligns with standards
• rigorous lessons designed on the appropriate level for student
• encourages students to learning
• engaging
• promotes retention

Top 10 High Quality Language Practices

1. Promote communication or interaction between peers.
2. Us KWL charts or what they already know and use that knowledge to relate to new skills.
3. Use thinking maps that create a visual for the students.
4. Involve writing as much as possible.
5. Communicate and include the parents as much as possible.
6. Use cooperative groups. (flexible)
7. Provide choices that encourage deeper thought.
8. Teach vocabulary explicitly and intentionally with the use of pictures and thinking maps.
9. Differentiate instruction per student needs.
10. Use partner learning whenever possible.