ACCESS PHASE
At the start of a lesson, your teachers are making critical decisions about how to prepare students for new learning. This is where they set the stage - activating prior knowledge, building background, pre-teaching vocabulary, and making complex ideas accessible.
The question isn't whether to provide support. The ...
When teachers amplify during ACCESS, they're strategic about reducing linguistic demand while maintaining grade-level cognitive work.
For example:
Instead of avoiding complex text because students are still developing English, teachers engineer access through:
Pre-teaching critical vocabulary in context Providin...
Here's what happens when ACCESS strategies work well: multilingual learners engage with the same grade-level content as their peers from the very beginning. They're not sitting on the sidelines waiting for their English to "catch up" before they can participate in meaningful learning.
When ACCESS strategies fall ...
