3D Shapes
In this lesson, students will have the opportunity to practice using language to describe the basic features of three dimensional shapes. Students will use key vocabulary to compare and discuss shapes.
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Lesson Ideas
from Kara Nichols
Kara is an experienced classroom teacher working in various grades ranging from K-6. Her work has primarily been with English Language Learners. She has a passion for helping to support ELLs in the general education classroom. Kara currently serves as the MTSS Lead/Academic Interventionist for a K-8 school in Chicago, IL.
Active and Passive Voice
In this lesson, students will have the opportunity to practice using both active and passive voices.
Adverbial Phrases
Students will practice working with adverb phrases to help provide descriptions while speaking and writing.
Calm Down Strategies
This lesson is intended to reinforce and create an individualized calm down strategy for students.
Cause and Effect Words
Students will learn about cause and effect words and use them in their own writing.
Cognates
Students will notice cognates that exist in English and Spanish. These are words that are both visibly and audibly similar, and have the same meaning.
Determining Author’s Purpose
In this lesson students will be able to determine the author’s purpose of a text.
Following a Routine
This lesson is intended to reinforce what to do during daily routines to help students be successful and minimize disruptions in the classroom.
Fractions
This lesson is intended to reinforce vocabulary and language used to describe fractions. It can be used as an ESL lesson or as a math lesson to reinforce the concept of fractions.
Genres
This lesson is intended to reinforce the language and vocabulary needed to discuss the genre of a text. Use this lesson as an informal assessment to determine the knowledge and features of genres.
Get to the Root
This lesson provides students with the opportunity to practice using Greek and Latin roots to help figure out the meaning of words they’re not familiar with.
Greetings!
Students will practice formal and informal phrases for greetings, making introductions, polite conversation, and saying goodbye.
I Declare
Students will read an informational text and practice using declarative statements to provide objective, factual information.
Interpreting Graphs
Students will learn the basic parts of a graph in English and use simple sentences to explain its features. Students will use the information from the graph to draw conclusions.
Let's Take a Trip
Students design a comic brochure about a destination and notice language patterns used to describe a specific place.
Main Idea and Details
Students will determine the main idea and at least two supporting details of a passage.
Mark It!
This lesson reinforces the language associated with finding the percent of numbers when solving word problems.
Nouns
Students will define and provide examples of nouns, identify various objects, and use appropriate nouns while writing to bring clarity to the audience.
Phrases for Algebraic Operations
Students will identify key phrases in word problems to determine which operation should be used.
Plural Nouns
Students will explore the rules for making nouns plural and practice using the correct spelling of plural nouns.
Prefixes
Students will create a comic informing others how to figure out the meaning of a new word using prefixes.
Ready, Set, Action!
Students will practice using action verbs to describe what is happening in the present tense.
Self-Advocacy
This lesson is intended to allow students to practice asking for help while creating a future scenario.
Sequencing Time and Events
Students will use sequence words to describe the order of events in a story when speaking and writing.
Super Suffixes
This lesson is intended to reinforce the idea of determining the meaning of words with suffixes. Students will create a comic to inform others how to figure out the meaning of a new word using suffixes.
Supporting Your Opinions
Students will practice responding to opinion statements of others with their own personal preferences.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Students will analyze a familiar narrative and explain positive and negative effects of events within the text.
Using Key Words to Compare and Contrast
Students will practice using key words to signal compare and contrast.
Verb Tenses
Students will use present, past, and future tenses with appropriate time markers when speaking and writing.
Where’s the Evidence?
Students will practice speaking and writing arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Word Detectives
Students will practice using context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.
Yes or No Questions
Students will practice asking and answering "yes" or "no” questions with the verb “do”.