ESOL STRATEGIES FOR READING!!! Strategy 3

For ESOL students reading can be difficult without the use of visuals. So to help ESOL students better understand the lessons being taught each day, it is good for the teacher to have an organized collection of visuals that he/she can quickly access for the  students, to enhance ESOL student comprehension. So the focus strategy of today is visual scaffolding, to provide the  language support for English learners.

Next Generation Sunshine State Standard:

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LA.2.1.7.8 The student will use strategies to repair comprehension of grade-appropriate text when self-monitoring indicates confusion, including but not limited to rereading, checking context clues, predicting, summarizing, questioning, and clarifying by checking other sources. 

Common Core Standard
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

ESOL Standard
12) Apply content-based ESOL approaches to instruction.

Strategy 3 Visual Scaffolding

STEP BY STEP

• Identify the vocabulary- identify the vocabulary in the lesson to be taught that can be scaffolded with visual images, such as drawings or photographs.

• Collect visuals- Find (or make) photos or line drawings that can be used to visually support the vocabulary needed for the students to understand the lesson. Use the Internet to search for images that can be collected in a "visuals file" on the computer for future use. 

• Reproduce and organize visuals- Reproduce the visuals on transparency film and organize them so that they can be easily used during teaching. Sequential order works well for a specific lesson, but you may want to organize your growing picture file alphabetically so that you can easily access the pictures for future lessons. Since pictures to be projected on an overhead projector need not to be large, they can be stored in a shoe box on the overhead projector cart. Internet images can be stored on the computer and later projected for classroom use. 

• Engage the students- Encourage students to use the transparency picture file in their presentations or as a way of asking and answering questions. 

• Build the file- Continue to build your file on an ongoing basis 

Internet Image Resource: www.google.com (select images) or www.Altavista.com (select images) 

Taking pictures with a digital camera can also be a resourceful tool when collecting images.