AVReading November
With a better understanding of what Academic Language is and why it is important to develop (see September and October issues), the next step is to examine how we can foster environments where academic language can be developed. As a brief reminder, academic language is more than just the words we use to talk in classes. They also include the way we formulate our ideas and even how we formulate them. Modeling Modeling academic language is an important starting point. Teachers who demonstrate how to state and express their thoughts in academic language, in addition to showing students how to decode and interpret that language is important. However, merely using academic language is not enough. Simply using the jargon and language of your content field without pointing it out or showing how you use it, may only frustrate the problem. Instead, Modeling it might mean using the language, but then having...