Brown, A / Meaningful Contextualization

Meaningful contextualization is a key EL strategy and occurs when teachers make new concepts or language forms comprehensible by introducing or “contextualizing” them via demonstration, culturally-responsive resources, text, prompts, references, or realia. In addition, teachers create meaningful contextualization by eliciting students’ prior knowledge and by creating connections between new and previously-learned academic concepts. Below is a chart of resources designed to build teacher capacity with regard to creating meaningful contextualization.

Title of Resource Summary of Resource

Meaningful Contextualization Introduction
This resource is an introduction to the concept of creating meaningful contextualization within lessons and provides several ideas for how to engage students through contextualization.
Meaningful Contextualization Chart of Ideas for English/Social Studies This chart focues on strategies for creating meaningful contextualization in the English/social studies classrooms, including ideas for how to create connections as well as model prompts for engaging students in the activities.
Meaningful Contextualization Chart of Ideas for Math/Science This chart is the math/science equivalent the chart described above.
Bibliography of Image Resources
This resources includes an annotated bibliography of a few sources as well as an additional list of several resources for finding images, accessible to teachers at school.

Meaningful Contextualization Introduction	This resource is an introduction to the concept of creating meaningful contextualization within lessons and provides several ideas for how to engage students through contextualization.
Meaningful Contextualization Chart of Ideas for English/Social Studies	This chart focues on strategies for creating meaningful contextualization in the English/social studies classrooms, including ideas for how to create connections as well as model prompts for engaging students in the activities.
Meaningful Contextualization Chart of Ideas for Math/Science	This chart is the math/science equivalent the chart described above.
Bibliography of Image Resources	This resources includes an annotated bibliography of a few sources as well as an additional list of several resources for finding images, accessible to teachers at school.