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Language Development Handbook (Teacher Edition) • Graphing Quadratic Functions

The document outlines an instructional strategy for teaching graphing quadratic functions, emphasizing vocabulary support and prior knowledge activation through symmetry. It includes discussion prompts and leveled activities for English learners, encouraging collaboration and fluency in mathematical discussions. Additionally, it provides a three-column chart for vocabulary organization to aid comprehension.

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Language Development Handbook (Teacher Edition) • Graphing Quadratic Functions

The document outlines an instructional strategy for teaching graphing quadratic functions, emphasizing vocabulary support and prior knowledge activation through symmetry. It includes discussion prompts and leveled activities for English learners, encouraging collaboration and fluency in mathematical discussions. Additionally, it provides a three-column chart for vocabulary organization to aid comprehension.

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Graphing Quadratic Functions

English Learner Instructional Strategy


Vocabulary Support: Activate Prior Knowledge
Before the lesson, draw or project images on the board to review lines of symmetry. Begin
with basic figures with lines of symmetry that are simple to find, such as a heart, square, circle,
or equilateral triangle. Discuss with the class what makes two parts symmetrical by asking
these questions.
• What does a line of symmetry do?
• How do you know that a figure has a line of symmetry?
• Is it possible to have more than one line of symmetry? Can you prove it?
Connect their review of symmetry and symmetrical lines to the symmetry associated with
parabolas in this lesson.

Discussion Supports
As students talk about the questions, have them pay attention to each other’s understandings
in order to increase their fluency in mathematical discussions about parabolas. Restate
statements they make as a question to seek clarification and provide vocabulary or grammar
prompts for students who need more guidance.

English Language Development Leveled Activities

Beginning Level Intermediate Level Advanced Level


Academic Word Knowledge Turn and Talk Partner Work
Begin with a parabola on a Use the following prompts to guide Have students write responses to
coordinate plane, and ask students pairs of students in a conversation the following prompts in their
to describe it. If necessary, provide about the lesson. journals, using appropriate math
question prompts such as: Does it • W
 hy it is easiest to find the vertex vocabulary.
open up or down? Is it wide or first in a quadratic function? • H ow can you use a point, the
narrow? Where is it on the plane? • H
 ow do you find the axis of vertex, and the axis of
Then ask students to identify, symmetry? symmetry to graph a quadratic
highlight, and label these function?
Once students have finished their
characteristics: axis of symmetry, • How can you determine whether
discussion, have them summarize
vertex, and y-intercept. a parabola opens up or down?
their responses in their journals.

Multicultural Teacher Tip


This lesson is rich in vocabulary. Tell students to refer to their journals if they get
confused. Additionally, encourage students to make a list of words that they see
in the lesson that they do not remember, and allow them time to review those
words as they begin independent practice. Circulate and look for common terms
among students that would be beneficial to review in small groups.

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Vocabulary
Graphing Quadratic Functions
Use the three-column chart to organize the vocabulary in this lesson. Write the
term in your native language. Then write the definition of each term.

Three-Column Chart
English Native Language Word Meaning

A second-degree polynomial
quadratic función cuadrática as a function in the form
function f(x) = ax2 + bx + c, where a is
not equal to zero.

The graph of a quadratic


function.
y

parabola parábola
O x

axis of eje de simetría


A line about which a parabola
symmetry is symmetric.
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The lowest or highest point on


vertex vértice
a parabola.

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