Preserve the scientific challenge while improving language access.
Science: retain the particle explanation of diffusion; add labelled concentration diagrams and a short explanation frame instead of replacing it with “stuff spreads”.
Identify the scientific concept and the language needed to access it separately.
Keep the original scientific question or phenomenon.
Show it through a diagram, demonstration or concrete model.
Connect key language to the representation and model an explanation.
Check the concept using a fresh example with less language support.
Fade labels and the frame while retaining the scientific demand.
Keep the subject challenge. Offer one model, visual or language prompt where needed, then check a fresh independent response.
Identify the scientific concept and the language needed to access it separately.
Keep the original scientific question or phenomenon. Show it through a diagram, demonstration or concrete model.
Ask learners to predict movement in a new diagram and explain it using concentration.
Fade labels and the frame while retaining the scientific demand.
Ask learners to predict movement in a new diagram and explain it using concentration.
Adapt these prompts to the task and your learners.
Our purpose is: Preserve the scientific challenge while improving language access.
Which detail supports your explanation? Show me how you know.
Try the new case on your own. Show the detail or reasoning that supports your answer.
Which support do you still need, and which part can you now do independently?
Maths: preserve reasoning while clarifying the word problem.
Humanities: preserve evaluation while annotating complex source language.
Use a small word bank, visuals and partner rehearsal when needed. Extend with precise explanations and qualifications. Judge the support from the response to this task.
Keep the strategy. Change the subject.
Keep diffusion’s particle explanation, adding a labelled concentration diagram.
Random particle motion produces a net movement from higher to lower concentration.
Check whether the response still meets the original reasoning demand after language support is added.
Keep source evaluation, annotating unfamiliar vocabulary rather than removing the judgement.
The source is useful for the writer’s experience, but cannot represent every witness.
Check whether the response still meets the original reasoning demand after language support is added.
Keep interpretation open, providing glosses for unfamiliar words rather than a ready-made reading.
The repeated pause may indicate fear or anger; the surrounding details help distinguish the readings.
Check whether the response still meets the original reasoning demand after language support is added.
Keep a word problem’s reasoning, clarifying quantities and units.
I need the change in distance and the elapsed time; dividing them gives average speed.
Check whether the response still meets the original reasoning demand after language support is added.