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ESOL Strategies
Click here to view Cooperative Learning Strategies that go
hand in hand with these ESOL strategies.
- Use contextual clues - gestures, expressions, body
language.
- Use linguistic modifications: repetition, slow
speech, restating, controlled vocabulary, controlled
sentence length, paraphrasing, explanation,
demonstration.
- Use peer tutoring.
- Use written and pictorial forms: maps, graphs,
charts, pictures, semantic maps, webs, flow charts,
outlines, and other graphic organizers.
- Use a variety of media.
- Adjust, modify, or shorten assignments.
- Provide hands-on experiences and use reality.
- Use individual and small group instruction and
assessment.
- Use cooperative learning activities.
- Define content area language or terms.
- Use alternative assessments: observation,
demonstration of skill, product evaluation, portfolio
assessment, dialogue journals, self evaluations,
checklists, peer assessment, graphic presentations.
- Reduce oral and written directions and information
to easy-to-understand steps or parts.
- Use role playing.
- Adapt written text and materials to facilitate
comprehension.
- Use any pedagogically sound instructional strategy.
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