10-second review: How prepare ESL students (English as a Second Language) or ELLs (English Language Learners) for reading? Emphasizes the importance of pre-teaching vocabulary and establishing questions to be answered for ESL students before reading.
Quote: “One technique that is helpful in supporting ELLs’ reading and learning in academic content areas is ‘frontloading’ a lecture or assigned reading with activities that highlight key language. Such activities may include discussions aimed at eliciting and linking students’ related background knowledge, hands-on experiences that invite key questions, and highlighting of key vocabulary. In this way, important concepts, vocabulary and questions are identified before a lecture or reading begins.”
Source: C Harper & E deJong. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (October 2004), 157. The secondary school publication of the International Reading Association (IRA).
Comment: The importance of preparing ESL students (or ELLs) for reading, relating what they are going to read to their background knowledge, highlighting unfamiliar vocabulary and establishing purpose for reading. RayS.
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