EDST2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Deep Learning
Focusondepth,morethanbreadth
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Do’t oerload studets ith high uer of ords to lear Go ito depth ith the high priority
vocab (language that is essential/foundational)
Makesurestudentshaveagoodgripofthefoundationwords(brick)before moving on to other content
words
o Increaseopportunitiestohaveconversations
• ▪ Leave time for both small-group and whole-class discussions
• ▪ Encourage students to use increasing amount of AL in discussion, instead of
conversational
• ▪ Check for understanding & get them to justify their answers (get insight into
their logical processes and develop their language skills)
• ▪ Get studets to help deelop eah other’s uderstadig
o Teachspecificstrategiesforwordlearning
• ▪ Teach students directly and explicitly how to look for & recognise important
words
• ▪ E.g. pull words apart & be constructive
• ▪ E.g. use context clues
• ▪ E.g. use knowledge of related words/ones that look the same
• ▪ E.g. activate prior knowledge
o Useactivitiesthatpromotewordconsciousness
▪ Play with and talk about keywords with students to get them more
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