GATESOL Friday Oct 20, 2017 Macon, GA Integrated Strategies for All-Age Beginners – Modeled with Picture books GATESOL Friday Oct 20, 2017 Macon, GA 11:10 am Ana Lado, Ph.D.

Newcomer & Beginner ELLs Key characteristics: silent, overwhelmed. Integrated oral and written second language development strategies, and Picture books that match the characteristics of ELLs and teaching strategies meeting their needs, such as ones with context embedded language and undemanding content (Cummins, 1981).

Books that prompt beginner ELLs Using the typical language of a specific type of second language teaching strategy Using strategies for early literacy, i.e. phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency. These books: address specific linguistic aims and prompt specific language teaching strategies,

Warm Up – Survey Who are your ELLs? What do you teach? Examples Songs and Poems--rcoA Little Overcoat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ37_s7X3jA Sing song This Land is Your Land https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cKUxGr H8Fk

Do these books: Make few content demands (less is more) Have active, contextual language (here & now) Have interactive patterns (you & me) Have repetition (I – We – You) ?

Introduction: Interview partner What are your favorite picture books? What do you teach? How are picture books effective? What styles are needed for ELLs? My Objectives: Strategies for moving beginners out of the silent period, Procedures for Integrated second language strategies.

Integrated Strategies: What do I mean? What do you want? Ideal book-based activities 1. Address language in context 2. Integrate the communicative competencies (linguistic ones too) 3. Teach both oral and written English 4. Teach transfer back and forth between them .

IDEAL BOOKS: Have context embedded language, such as graphics, text and styles that connect the student to the teacher’s conversation. 2. Have cognitively undemanding content for ELLs, such as easy for an age and cultural group

Useful for Beginner Language? All three books have verbs (TPR) One has Call & Response routine One has lots of repetition One has age-appropriate photos Over in a River is part of a series; Photographs in Step Gently Out; Lots of verbs + Steve is scientist

Is the content appropriate for the age?

Is the content appropriate for the age? Underground tells the story in 2 word phrases: They hide. They run. They sleep. 8/2/2018

BUG TRACKER Can it fly? How many legs? Given what we just learned, what do we see here? Answer: picture books which mirror science texts.

Matching Strategies to Books Books with: Active verbs prompt vocabulary through Total Physical Response (TPR) Patterned question and answer sequences prompt guessing games Repetitive poetic phrases prompt fluency through chanting.

STRATEGIES Total Physical Response (TPR) Chanting, Repetition, Poetry Recitation Reader’s Theater Substitution Call and Response Questions Language Experience Approach Model-based or Guided Writing of fiction and non-fiction 8. Close Reading

Strategies #1. TPR the text has verbs. #4 Strategies #1. TPR the text has verbs. #4. Substitution the text has patterns. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=http%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fvideos++picture+book+De%2bla%2bcabeza%2ba%2blos%2bpies%2bCarle&FORM=HDR SC3#view=detail&mid=32007319EFF5F90E09F432007319EFF5F90E09F4

Strategies #3. Reader’s Theater Books is Dialogue Rich

Strategies #2. Chanting, Repetition, Poetry Recitation Kerley’s A Cool Drink of Water #8. Close Reading questions And Models for writing: – Sentences - Paragraphs

Strategies #7. Model-based RETELLING and Writing Story Frame Questions Answers What is the title? Author? Illustrator? Kitten’s First Full Moon is Written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes 2. Who is the story about? This story is about a hungry kitten. 3. What happens first? The kitten sees the moon and thinks it is milk. 4. What happens next? She jumps off the porch. 5. What happens next? She runs through the garden. 6. What happens next? She climbs up a tree. 7. What happens next? She leaps into a pond. 8. How does it end? She finds a bowl of milk at home.

Strategies #7. STORY FRAME QUESTIONS What is this title? Who is the author? Illustrator? Who is the story about? What is the story about? What happens? What happens next? What happens in the end? What do you think?

3. This story is about_____. 4 . ____ wanted________. Model Paragraph 1.What is this title?                                2.Who is the author? 3.Who is the story about? 4.What does she want?                        5.What is the problem? 6.What does she do? 7.What happens next? 8.How does it end? 1. The title is_________ . 2. The author is _____. 3. This story is about_____. 4 . ____ wanted________. 5. But __________. 6. This is what she did. They____. 7. So  ____________. 8.  In the end, she ______.

Strategies #1 TPR, #3 Substitution, and #6 Strategies #1 TPR, #3 Substitution, and #6. Language Experience Approach.

Strategies #2. Recitation And #4. Substitution The Poem By Langston Hughes The night / is beautiful,/ So the faces /of my people./ The stars /are beautiful,/ So the eyes /of my people. Beautiful, also,/ is the sun. Beautiful, also, /are the souls /of my people. 8/2/2018

(classmates/family, wonderful/delightful, smiles, hands, hugs) The night / is beautiful,/ So the faces /of my people./ The stars /are beautiful,/ So the eyes /of my people. Beautiful, also,/ is the sun. Beautiful, also, /are the souls / of my people.

Strategy #5. Call and Response

Strategies #6 Language Experience Approach Projects(plants & food) leads to model based writing.

Strategy #8. Close Reading The questions are Models for writing: Question 1:  Identify the reading by its name, date, and author. Question 2:  What is the topic? Question 3:  What does the author want you to think or believe about the topic? Question 4:  What is the organization of the facts? Question 5:  What are two facts given by the author to support his/her opinion?

Strategy #8. Close Reading a non-fiction picture book to model scientific writing: Recognize, Compare, Contrast pictures & text Rewrite based on model Rewrite question, oral answer and written response, and Repeatedly ask “How do you know?” “I know because ___.” Lead up to factual Paragraph with 3-5 sentences

Close Reading -- Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) What are my questions? What do I do? What do I see? What can I claim? How do I know? (evidence) How do my ideas compare with other ideas? How have my ideas changed?

REVIEW – find a book and match it to a strategy Make few content demands (less is more) Active language in context (here & now) Interactive patterns (you & me) Repetition (I – We – You)

STRATEGIES Total Physical Response (TPR) Chanting, Repetition, Poetry Recitation Reader’s Theater Substitution Call and Response Questions Language Experience Approach Model-based or Guided Writing of fiction and non-fiction 8. Close Reading

Teaching Beginner ELLs with Picture Books Database – http://www.corwin.com/picturebooks4ells/ Password: person Teaching Beginner ELLs with Picture Books (Lado, 2012)