Middle School Teachers Kuwait Day 3

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Strategies for Teaching English Language to

Middle School Learners

*Day 3 Community Building:

Uncommon Commonalities

1.Work with your group to find out things you have in common. Ask about anything!

2.Try to list 2-3 things your group has in common that no other group has in common

*Team Names

*Now name your team. Your uncommon commonalities may give you ideas.

*Strategy #16: Read-aloud: Nashville,

Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni

Read-Aloud Rubric

Criteria Novice Learning Expert

*What are criteria for quality read-

aloud?

Read-Aloud Rubric

Criteria Novice Learning Expert

Introduction Give name of selection and start reading.

2-3 of expert descriptors

• Introduce selection

• Characters/author

• Build background

• Vocabulary• Connect to ss

experience

*Create a Rubric

*Read the description

*Discuss how to create a rubric

*Determine 3 criteria

*Describe performance at 3 levels.

*Scaffold the story with drama: Strategy #17: Reader’s

Theatre

*Reader’s Theatre: One Song.

Strategy #17: Reader’s Theatre

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*Principle 5

*Integrate language with content

*Culture through Literature: I am

KwakkoliStrategy 42: Culturally

Responsive Instruction

*I am Kwakkoli

*Learn about another culture, compare to our

own

*What do you know about the Oneida?

*Who? What are they called?

*Where?

*Naming practices

*Age

*Ceremony

*Name and meaning

*Strategies List

Uncommon commonalities

Team Names

Read Aloud

TPR

TPR Storytelling

Shared Reading

Language Experience Approach

Create a Rubric

*Exit Ticket

Read a paragraph aloud to a partner. Find one of the descriptors your partner demonstrated.