Identify at least five strategies that have been found to be helpful in improving the reading and writing skills of students from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Ans: Responses should include at least five of the following:
• Choose printed materials that relate to students’ lives.
• Use teacher-directed, systematic, small-group instruction.
• Focus instruction on the five skills identified by the National Reading Panel.
• Teach reading behaviors explicitly.
• Take advantage of students’ interest and ability with social literacy to build their academic literacy.
• Teach vocabulary before starting the lesson and provide repeated exposures to new vocabulary.
• Use repeated reading where students hear the passage read, then read the passage to a partner three to five times.
• Incorporate visual materials to support reading comprehension.
• Include language objectives as part of lesson plans.
• Make books come alive.
• Expose students to a broad range of fiction and nonfiction.
Learning Objective: Explain the role of culture and language in reading and writing and the implications culturally and/or linguistically for diverse students. Discuss how to teach reading and writing to students from diverse backgrounds.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Implications for Culturally and/or Linguistically Diverse Students
Difficulty Level: Medium