Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Language/Cultural Considerations
Teaching
Strategies
Identify
what
previous
exposure
to
ICT
EAL/D
students
have
had.
Explicitly
teach
English
keyboard
skills,
including
charts
that
show
upper-case
and
lower-case
matches
(as
keyboards
are
in
the
upper
case).
Plan
for
vocabulary
teaching
and
deliberately
build
vocabulary
in
the
classroom.
Teach
the
use
of
a
thesaurus.
Notice
words
being
used
differently
in
different
contexts
and
point
this
out
to
students
(for
example
Stay
in
the
shade.
Shade
one
half
of
the
circle).
Ask
EAL/D
students
to
share
texts
from
their
own
lives.
These
can
be
shared
with
the
class
and
used
as
points
of
comparison
and
discussion.
Provide
EAL/D
students
with
the
opportunity
to
create
texts
at
a
level
commensurate
with
their
English
language
skill.
Beginning
phase
students
can
use
visuals
and
modelled
sentences
from
the
classroom,
while
Consolidating
phase
students
will
benefit