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AI ELL Scaffolding Design: Tier-3 Vocabulary and Sentence Frames
AI can produce tier-3 vocabulary glosses and sentence frames for a content lesson — supporting English-language learners without dumbing down the content.
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- 1The premise
- 2ELL scaffold
- 3tier-3 vocabulary
- 4sentence frame
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Section 1
The premise
AI can produce ELL scaffolds for a content lesson, but cultural and linguistic appropriateness must be reviewed by an ELL specialist.
What AI does well here
- Identify tier-3 vocabulary in a content lesson and produce student-friendly glosses.
- Generate sentence frames that scaffold academic discourse without simplifying content.
What AI cannot do
- Substitute for an ELL specialist's review of cultural and linguistic appropriateness.
- Adapt to the specific home languages of every student in your class.
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