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Ideal as a supplementary text for a variety of courses and as a guide for in-service teachers and for professional development settings, Teaching English Language Learners: 43 Strategies for Successful K–8 Classrooms provides teachers of all content areas with a broad, practical approach to teaching English language learners in the regular classroom setting.
Semantic Mapping (Works Well for Tier 3 Words)
Semantic mapping, an instructional strategy that can be traced to Johnson and Pearson (1984, as cited in Stahl & Vancil, 1986), is an effective strategy to build concept and word knowledge for ELLs because it engages them in academic discussions supported by comprehensible input. It provides rich and deep instruction for teaching words as well as for teaching underlying concepts. In addition to promoting vocabulary development, semantic mapping features the added benefits of activating and building knowledge prior to reading and other instructional activities. It is the rich discussion that is involved in the creation of semantic maps that makes it so effective for vocabulary learning (Stahl & Nagy, 2006; ...
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