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It's been a while but I'm finally back with more news from Room 2forty5! A lot has been going on since my last post. A new school year has began and here we are, already in 2013! Survived the end of the world craziness and all that. I can say that finally my room is 100% a G.L.A.D. room. What is GLAD you wonder?... Happy?... Well, yeah, my room is a happy place but when I say G.L.A.D. I mean I'm using G.L.A.D. strategies when implementing my lessons with my ELL students.What does G.L.A.D. stands for?GuidedLanguageAcquisitionDesign This is a a model of professional development in the areas of  Language Acquisition and Literacy. G.L.A.D strategies promote English Language Acquisition, Academic Achievement and cross-cultural skills. Project GLAD™ is an instructional model with clear, practical strategies promoting positive, effective interactions among students and between teachers and students. If you want to learn more, please visit : Project Glad 

In a G.L.A.D. classroom students: Show respect - Solve Problems - Make good decisions ƒ   Pictorial Input ChartMake vocabulary and concepts comprehensibleƒ Drawn in front of the students for brain imprintingƒ Organizes informationƒ Becomes a resource for studentsStep-by-Step1. Used to illustrate unit vocabulary and  concepts.2. Resources for pictorials include: textbooks, expository children’s books (Eyewitness Explorers series) websites (www.enchantedlearning.com), teacher resource books.3. Use an opaque, overhead, or document camera to enlarge the picture and trace on butcher paper in light pencil, including vocabulary words and notes4. With students present, trace over the pictorial with markers, providing verbal input as you go. Chunk your information in different colors.5. Revisit to add word cards and review information.6. Creates LANGUAGE FUNCTIONAL ENVIRONMENT.7. Allow students to color pictorials.8. At the end of the unit, make a master to use next year, and then raffle the pictorials  Here are some examples of my Unit about the Underground Railroad.We started with a pictorial of Harriet Tubman.

Harriet Tubman 

Harriet Tubman  

Chants

1. ƒ Imbed key concepts and vocabulary

1. ƒ Auditory and visual language patterning

1. ƒ Vocabulary building

1. ƒ Students gain familiarity and comfort using 

1. academic language in a low-pressure way

1. ƒ Chants are revisited often for a variety of purposes

Step-by-Step1. Choose key vocabulary and concepts to imbed in chants.2. Choose a frame or existing song to adapt  (Bugaloo; Yes Ma’am; Cadence; Here, There, Everywhere; I Know a …).3. When chanting with the students, start by chanting for the rhythm and language patterns first, focus on concepts and vocabulary later.4. Revisit the chants often for different purposes, including highlighting scientific, historic or interesting words.

Yes Ma'am

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