Building+Background

**Building Background will help you will be able to: ** __ Content __


 *   Identify techniques for connecting students’ personal experiences and past learning to lesson concepts.
 *  ﻿ Define the key elements of academic language and tell why it’s important to ELLs.

__ Language __


 *   Develop lessons that incorporate activities to build your student’s background knowledge and provide ﻿ explicit links to students’ prior knowledge and experiences.
 *  ﻿ Identify the academic language in a SIOP® lesson and emphasize key vocabulary.

Here is a link to a document that will help you think of ways to link new concepts to background knowledge. It is recommended that you fill this out **before** you plan your lesson.

__Video__ Chapter 3, Module 2 will give you more information about Building Background Knowledge. __Activity__ We did an Inside/Outside circle to share information about our knowledge of Building Background: 