EL Activity Collection
Published on Jul 04, 2020
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EL Activity Collection
5 Activities incorporating strategies for English Language Learners
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TPR Storytelling
- Start with storyasking by using the phrase such as "wants to go" and ask the class for missing information
- Check for understanding of story when complete
- Review vocabulary in the story and include TPR with each word
- Have the class read the story together while using TPR
- Work with a partner to create stories and create whole body TPR to accompany their story
Storytelling, accompanied by storyasking, will be used to build student voabulary. This specific strategy will be used in a ESOL newcomer class and students will use gestures and hand motions to accompany unfamiliar vocabulary words. Students will first respond to storyasking and will create a story while using TPR as a class. Following the examples used, students will then break into pairs and create their own story accompanied with TPR. Students will present their stories to the class, asking students to participate in telling the story.
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Visual Scaffolding: Illustrated U.S. History
- Bill of Rights powerpoint presentation with visuals
- Work in small groups and find visuals for amendment assigned
- The video A 3 minute guide to the Bill of Rights will be shown with captioning on
- Students will complete a Bill of Rights one pager
Illustrated U.S. History will be used to learn about the Bill of Rights in U.S. History class. The Bill of Rights powerpoint presentation has pictures and visuals to represent each key vocabulary word. After learning about the Bill of Rights through this presentation, students will move into small groups and each group will be assigned one amendment to find a visual which represent it and its meaning. Each group will present their visuals and then the class will discus why or why not they think these visuals best represent the amendment. Following the presentations, students will watch the video 3 minute guide to the Bill of Rights. After the video, students will individually complete the Bill of Rights one pager to demonstrate understanding of the concepts presented.
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A 3 Minute Guide to The Bill of Rights
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Interactive Read-Aloud: Speak
- Book Speak will be used for the interactive read-aloud
- Sticky notes will be placed throughout the book to discuss, make predictions, as well as make connections
- Read a 10-15 selection of the book using visuals, gestures, and voices for each character
- Story map will be created based on the reading from the day
- Predictions made for next day
The book Speak will be used for the interactive read-aloud with a high school 9th grade English class. Before reading the text in class, sticky notes will be placed through the book in places which will be used for discussion and to make predictions. A 10-15 minute selection of the book will be read using visuals, gestures, and voices to represent each character. After the reading, students will discuss what happend in the text selection. Following the discussion, students will make predictions on what they think will happen the next day in the reading.
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Modeled Writing: Newcomer Class
- This method of modeled writing will be used in the ESOL newcomers class to aquire English writing skills
- Students will start each day with their writing journals
- One on one questioning will take place either based on an event involving the student or by using task cards which prompt questions
- The language experience approach will be used to continue conversation in written form with the student and teacher, being accompanied at the end with a visual and the final writing sample
Each student in the ESOL newcomer class will receive a writing journal to be used each day. Students will have a one on one session each week to respond to questions based on something they were involved in/with recently or task cards. The student will sit alongside the teacher to help build their response to the questions, providing a visually respresentation once their story is complete.
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Cloze: Romeo and Juliet
- After reading first half of Romeo and Juliet, a cloze paragraph from a selection of the text will be presented to the class on chart paper.
- Students will individually fill out a cloze paragraph from the story
- Students will work in pairs to discuss their word choices which they used to fill in the blanks
Students reading Romeo and Juliet for English I will participate in completing a cloze paragraph as a class to help build vocabulary and increase comprehension. First, a cloze paragraph based on the first half of the book will be created on chart paper for the class to complete together. Next, a cloze paragraph will be completed as a class based on the second half of the book. Once the book is completed, students will work in pairs to complete a cloze paragraph based on the entire book.
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