Entry # 8 Sheltered Lesson

Shelter Instruction Videos

What does the teacher do to promote comprehension? What do the students do to         promote comprehension? List the strategies used in the video.

Previewing

The teacher first gives explicit review of reading strategies the students should use while they are tackling the book. The teacher also stops to help make background connections with the students. An important part in the comprehension strategies is previewing the key vocabulary words. In the video the teacher used pictures, stories, integrating the student’s native language, and asking students to sing the song that was referenced in the story.

The students were engaged in the lesson asking questions as they went along and participating in the vocabulary previewing by providing examples and meanings to the vocabulary words addressed. 

During

Teacher reads aloud slowly and clearly making sure to review vocabulary as it comes up in the story. The teacher also uses the projector so that students have an extra visual to the story being read aloud. Throughout the story the teacher asks questions to probe for understanding and comprehension. The questions also allow students to connect the story to their background knowledge.  When asking questions the teacher uses wait time to allow for thoughtful answers and allows the students to process the information given to them.

After

After the story is read students are asked to come up with ways they can connect the story to their background knowledge and what questions they may have.

Strategies

*Creating content and language objectives

*Connect to background knowledge

*Questioning

*Using pictures, songs, stories

*Using academic language

*Preview key vocabulary

*Provide context to key vocabulary

*Connect to cultural experiences

*Make predictions, group work, relate to students cultural backgrounds, make comparison charts

*Read stories aloud slowly and clearly

*Allow wait time to process information

*Help make connections from text to background knowledge

*Model reading strategies

*Teach students how to write well-written questions