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Answer each question :

• What is academic language?
• How can we help K-12 students to build the academic language that they need to succeed in school?
• What does edTPA ask for regarding Academic Language?
• How can the university support teacher education candidates (you) in embedding academic language into classroom practice?
• How would you explain the importance of academic language in non-technical terms (to a parent, for example)?
• Explain what the author of the slide show means when he uses the analogy on slide number 9.
• Slide 12 instructs us that teachers need to helps students practice language function. Briefly describe two ways you could do this in your class (give the grade level).
• What are the three steps to teaching academic language?
• Explain the difference between the bricks and mortar words on slide number 18.
• Slide 22 provides steps for teaching academic language. However, they sound a little complicated.  Simplify the steps.  Restate them in your own words so they are easier to understand.
• Review slide number 26. What is your opinion about these steps?  Do you think they are necessary? Do you see yourself following them in your lessons?  Why or why not?
• Review slides 28, 29, and 30.
  • What do they have in common with Syntax?
  • Provide a brief example of a way you have or might use sentence frames.
• Justify the importance of backwards mapping.
• What does the quote on slide 75 mean to you?
• Considering the content of this course,
  • What are some big ideas you took away from this course?
  • What are some questions you still have after hearing/reading/practicing the content of the course?