Applied Language Concepts - Tips for Teachers

 Applied Language Concepts
 Learning Strategies that will enable every Child to Succeed

Presented by
Dina Polishuk MA-CFY-SLP-TSLD
What are we here for?
Provide research based material that is practical and helpful in the classroom.
You are the experts in the classroom. I am not here to teach you to be better teachers, nor to teach you to be therapists. Rather to share concrete language based information that can be applicable to your lives.
This is an opportunity for you to gain and learn information that can be applied in your classroom.
Topics to be Discussed
Following Directions
Behavioral Component, Language Component and Cognitive Component
What can we do to help our students succeed?
A Four-Step Process Guide for Teaching
Teach, Model, Guided Practice and Independent Practice
Hierarchy of Cuing
Levels of assistance- If we do it for them, how will they learn?
Processing and Applying Information
Ideas to help students answer questions and be engaged in the classroom.
What does it have to do with us?
All twenty students in a class are given a worksheet. On the worksheet are various letters of the alef bais spread across the paper. The teacher tells the girls to circle the alefs orange, the letters bais blue, gimel green and daled red. Five girls complete the paper correctly, five circle all the letters, but the wrong colors, five color a beautiful rainbow across the paper, and five are either dreaming, crying or whining for help.
Practical Following directions example

Following Directions
Definition: being able to understand, remember and correctly follow a set of given instructions.
Behavioral Component:
-Ability   -Motivation/Praise
Language Component:
Preteach and reteach content related vocabulary words.
Cognitive Component:
-Manipulatives- simplify components or provide the manipulatives
-Steps-
-Sequence/Memory


Possible additional topics
Word retrieval
Phonemic cuing
Semantic cuing
Attention cuing – how to help a child pay attention and why some children have difficulty. (letter)

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