TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose – The primary purpose of this chapter is to offer classroom teachers, administrators, and program specialists specific “big picture” strategies to support upper grade English learners in comprehending expository content-area texts that offer challenges not present in narrative or story-like texts.Design/methodology/approach – Two separate approaches for helping English learners to identify content topics, text structures, and key ideas that control text selections are described and modeled: the Advance Organizer and PLAN (Predict, Locate, Add, and Note).Findings – When learners engage in specific, step-by-step “big picture” processes to understand text structure, organization, and concepts/vocabulary (not relying simply on decoding, or sounding out words), they attain higher levels of comprehension and retention.Research limitations/implications – “Big picture” strategies are well-documented in research as having advantages for all learners who interact with expository text structures – but are especially effective for English learners who may struggle with unfamiliar text structures and higher levels of academic and technical content-area vocabulary.Practical implications – Specific directions for (and advantages of) implementing two big picture strategies that are adaptable to a wide range of grade levels and content-area topics are presented. Teachers can easily modify the strategies in flexible ways to personalize the use of these strategies for English learners in any content-area context.Originality/value of chapter – With step-by-step directions, templates, and examples of content-area texts to guide them, teachers can easily utilize these strategies with English learners using a whole class, small-group, or one-to-one intervention approach.
VL  - 3
SN  - 978-1-78190-696-5, 978-1-78190-697-2/2048-0458
DO  - 10.1108/S2048-0458(2013)0000003017
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2048-0458(2013)0000003017
AU  - Pilgreen Janice
ED  - Evan Ortlieb
ED  - Earl H. Cheek
PY  - 2013
Y1  - 2013/01/01
TI  - The Plight of the Upper Grade English Learner: Comprehending, Not Just Decoding! Using Big Picture Strategies to Reveal Key Ideas in Texts
T2  - School-Based Interventions for Struggling Readers, K-8
T3  - Literacy Research, Practice and Evaluation
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 267
EP  - 292
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -