EIS+Guided+Practice

=What is Guided Practice?=

Guided Practice activities provide students the opportunity to use what they have learned in structured, familiar, and linguistically safe (or controlled) contexts in which teachers and students receive frequent, focused and formative feedback regarding the students’ proficiency with the content and readiness to progress to increasingly more complex tasks. Guided practice activities:


 * Are in the target language
 * Are tied to the unit objective, culminating assessment and context
 * Are culturally authentic as often as possible
 * May resolve uncertainties or information gaps
 * Progress along a continuum from mechanical to meaningful to communicative.

=Guided Practice Resources=

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 * Name of Resource:** Online Graphic Organizers for download
 * Where to find it:** [] (resources page)
 * Description:** There are many resources for language teachers on this site, but if you scroll down on this link, you will see several links to libraries of graphic organizers that you can download. Please note that these graphic organizers will give you ideas, but you will probably have to recreate them yourself in order to have them in your target language.
 * Posted by:** Nicole Naditz


 * Name of Resource:** 25 Strategies for Guiding Readers through Informational Texts by Barbara Moss (published by Academic Professional Development, 2003)
 * Where to find it:** http://www.peakparent.org/product.asp?id=40
 * Description:** A resource to give you the tools to help students infer, questions, synthesize and analyze information from texts while reading.
 * Posted by:** Nicole Naditz


 * Name of Resource:** Vocabulary Strategies Every Teacher Should Know by Danny Brassell and James Flood (published by Academic Professional Development, 2004
 * Where to find it:** http://www.peakparent.org/product.asp?id=57
 * Description:** Outstanding ideas for buidling vocabulary of language learners. This book is focused on the needs of ELD teachers, but the strategies are easily transferable to world languages classes.
 * Posted by:** Nicole Naditz


 * Name of Resouce:** Guided Practice in action
 * Where to find it:** http://www.learner.org/channel/libraries/tfl/video/video_organizer_04.html
 * Description:** Videos of teachers using a variety of strategies to get learners involved in and practicing with newly acquired material (free registration required to view video clips). By the way in this video organizer, you will also that some videos specifically mention that they work with native speakers and also with authentic documents, so these may be good choices to give you ideas for your advanced or heritage language classes.
 * Posted by:** Nicole Naditz


 * Name of Resource:** University of Wisconsin at Madison Lesson Planning Page
 * Where to find it:** http://labweb.education.wisc.edu/fle/2004FLE/teaching/lesson.htm
 * Description:** This web site has information, resources and examples for world language teachers in two sections: lesson planning/design and resources. The lesson planning pages assist teachers in Wisconsin to embed that state's world language standards in their work. California does not yet have standards, but the page will help you see what it will mean to deliver standards-based world language instruction when we do have standards in 2009. The resources are links to online activities (organized by language) the students can do from home (or in a computer lab). Some of these activities are guided practice and others are more independent practice.
 * Posted by:** Nicole Naditz