1. Project glad overview

2. GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Design)
What is glad?
GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Design)
Incorporates research from many fields and organizes the strategies into a process
Uses strategies that model/promote English language acquisition and academic achievement
Provides students with opportunities for use of academic language
Communication and tasks utilize cooperative learning strategies
Instruction is centered on standards-based, integrated themes or units-Interrelates science, social studies, and literature

3. Glad instruction best delivered by:
Self-contained teachers whose instruction is centered on inter-disciplinary units or themes that interrelate science, social studies, and literature.

4. What kind of teaching is required to deliver GLAD strategies?
Teachers who have:
HIGH ENERGY!
the capability to deliver highly active and interactive lessons with a high emphasis on modeling.
an ability to administer lessons using total physical response and interactive student participation.
the ability to sequence between teaching strategies (EDI, collaborative groups, and independent work).

5. What tools are needed to instruct using glad strategies?
Low tech-high impact tools
Markers and white butcher paper

6. GLAD Delivery
GLAD is comprised of highly effective SDAIE strategies. They can be seen as synonymous. 
GLAD tends to be more effective than SDAIE alone, because of the specified delivery model. 
If you are using GLAD, you are doing SDAIE.
Focus & Motivation
Input
Guided Oral Practice
Reading & Writing Activities
Extension, Integration, Closure, Evaluation Activities
Small /flexible
groupings
Individual
work

7. Focus and Motivation
Cognitive Content Dictionaries
Big Books

8. Input
Pictorial Input
Charts
Comparative
Input Charts

9. Guided Oral Practice
Chants
Sentence Patterning Charts
T-charts

10. Reading and Writing Activities
Cooperative Strip Paragraphs
Process Grids

11. Small Groups/Flexible Groupings
Expert groups
Team tasks
Process grids
Small group shared reading
Flexible group leveled reading
Partner reading
And more…

12. Individual Work Individual Tasks Learning logs
Authentic literacy events
Interactive journals- reading and writing/choice
Silent accountable reading
Writers workshop
And more…

13. Extensions/Activities for Integration
Drama
Art
Special Projects
Virtual Fieldtrips
Group Work
And more…

14. Closure/Evaluation Portfolios Flip-Books Tests Self/Teacher
evaluations
Home/School
connection
And more…

15. Pictorial input 4th grade