Bridging

Learning Strategies

• Exposure to authentic language through the use of digital media

  • Listening to audio recordings

  • Digital storytelling

  • Multimedia Projects  

• Socratic circles for oral language development 

• Engage in higher level literacy tasks such as critically interpret, analyze, synthesize and evaluate multiple texts 

• Engage in paired text of the same topic, e.g. one fiction and one non-fiction

• I-Charts for inquiry-based learning

• Feedback on student writing 

  • Frequent one-on-one conferences 

  • Explicit comments left on writing assignments 

  • Scaffold the peer review process and allow students to offer each other feedback