Comprehensible Input Techniques

Modeling
teacher models what is
expected of the student
usually step by step procedure

Hands-on Manipulatives
learning aids (ex: microscope)

Commercial or Teacher-Made
Pictures
use of pictures that depict any
object, process, or topic

Demonstration
process of how something
happens

Using Overhead Projector

show clues by writing words,
sketching out to connect verbal
or written to a picture (must
have both)

Multimedia
use of a tape recorder, video,
computer, etc.

Graphs
visually represents numbers /
amounts

Realia
students have access to the
REAL thing, such as a can of
coke

Timelines
visually represents events in
sequence (can be added on to)

Maps
used in Science, Geography, or
History