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This video, produced by the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Program, is part of a series developed for the Professional Learning Communities Facilitator’s Guide for the What Works Clearinghouse Practice Guide: Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School.
In this video, a teacher in a fourth-grade class demonstrates how to teach academic vocabulary through the use of examples, non-examples, and concrete representations. The class shown has 32 students, all but four of whom have been enrolled at the school since kindergarten. Half the students speak a language other than English at home. Of these students, one speaks Cantonese, and the others speak Spanish. Three of the English learners are at an intermediate level of English proficiency; the rest are at an advanced level.
This video was prepared for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under Contract ED-IES-12-C-0012 by Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, administered by SEDL. The content of the video does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of IES or the U.S. Department of Education, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
This REL video is in the public domain. While permission to reprint or use this video is not necessary, it should be cited as:
Instructional Research Group. (2015). Pre-teaching vocabulary (fourth-grade class) [Videofile]. In J. A. Dimino, M. Taylor, & J. Morris, Professional learning communities facilitator's guide for What Works Clearinghouse practice guide: Teaching academic content and literacy to English learners in elementary and middle school (REL 2015-105). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest. Retrieved from ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs.
This video is available on the Regional Educational Laboratory website at ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs.