Workshop Title: The Art of Integrated, Literacy-based Lesson Planning
Workshop Description: This workshop offers a step-by-step process for developing literacy-based lessons that skillfully transform textbook materials into artfully integrated masterpieces of language, content, and culture. Workshop participants will: (1) craft conceptual understanding from narrative texts; (2) deepen discussion skills with concrete, content-based interactions; (3) counterbalance instruction to expand academic language use; and (4) support learners with practical strategies for metacognition and scaffolded language production. Participants are encouraged to bring several culturally authentic texts for the classes they teach, along with and a laptop, tablet, or iPad. Teachers will leave with a literacy-based lesson plan they can use in their classrooms. Workshop Outcomes: 1) I can select meaningful topics and high interest texts. 2) I can develop interactive tasks that build proficiency, literacy, and interculturality. 3) I can scaffold interactive activities to support student learning. Workshop Deliverable: Participants will select one lesson they teach and modify it (or major activities from it) so that it builds linguistic comprehension and academic language production about disciplinary content. |
Links to resources for finding culturally authentic materials in a variety of languages, including Arabic, ASL, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish
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A list of children's books in Spanish that address cultural topics (The list includes titles that are culturally authentic as well as books that have been translated into Spanish)
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Planning handouts to help develop and scaffold activities for culturally authentic texts in their target language
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