Scenario Response 10

The following is aligned with the WIDA Language Development Standards, these are task-oriented and work to strengthen the students’ language acquisition.

1. Leverage knowledge of key language (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics)
2. Teach and provide opportunities to use academic, social, and instructional language
3. Keeping a routine in the class and limiting possible threats by only trying one new strategy at a time
4. Model and provide opportunities to use English language based on communication purpose, audience
5. Identify academic language demands in grade-level standards
6. Incorporate opportunities for engaging with and producing language (reading, writing, viewing, speaking, listening, representing) to reflect real-life language use
7. Expose students to different genres and text types, modeling and providing opportunities to also create them in ways that on their grade and developmental level
8. Connect instruction about how English works with students’ first language to promote transfer
9. Explicitly teach literacy skills and strategies
10. Provide opportunities for students to analyze and evaluate how language resources can be used for different social, instructional, and academic purposes in different contexts