Association Chain
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will identify words they know from a word bank.
- Students will write words and phrases in their native language.
- Students will expand words to short phrases about the target word.
- Students will translate target words and phrases to English.
Basic Grammar Sentences
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will identify present tense verbs in vocabulary.
- Students will write phrases using present tense verbs.
Battleship Phonics
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will read increasingly complex words using letter/sound knowledge.
- Students will blend initial consonants with common vowel patterns and word families.
- Students will use knowledge of letter clusters and vowel digraphs to spell unfamiliar words.
Close Reading and Writing
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will highlight, annotate, ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text.
- Students will recount and re-read text and stories to confirm details.
- Students will describe characters in a story: traits, motivations, feelings, etc.
Close Reading: Highlighting and Annotating
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will highlight and annotate information pertinent to the main idea of the text.
- Students will articulate the main idea of a text by analyzing and synthesizing highlighted and annotated sections.
Clunks and Clues
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will develop fix-up strategies to apply to new/unknown words.
- Students will use context clues to understand new/unknown words.
- Students will apply knowledge of roots, prefixes, and suffixes to determine the meaning of new/unknown words.
Clunks and Clues for Deeper Reading
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will develop fix-up strategies to apply to new/unknown words to complex text.
- Students will use context clues to understand new/unknown words.
- Students will apply knowledge of syntax to and word structure determine the meaning of new/unknown words.
Combining Sentences
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will combine sentences to strengthen their message.
- Students will apply knowledge of grammar to properly compose and combine sentences.
Commitment Cards
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will design tips to offer advice on something they are committed to in their native language.
- Students will explain a tip in English.
- Students will translate and publish their selected tip.
Critical Literacy: Alternative Texts
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will drive an informational quest to synthesize information.
- Students will write conclusions.
- Students will think broadly about the text and apply an alternative text approach using character substitution or character perspective.
Dual Language Paragraph Construction
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will construct a paragraph in their own language.
- Students will interpret a reading passage to write a response in their own language before translating it to English.
Essay Writing
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will write full essays on a theme of their choice.
- Students will use evidence to support their ideas.
- Students will apply an internal editing process to write, draft, and finalize their essay.
Extended Paragraph Writing
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will construct extended paragraphs in their own language.
- Students will interpret a reading passage and translate it to English.
- Students will write, translate, edit, and revise their paragraphs.
First and Second Conditional
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will distinguish the difference between first and second conditional use in context.
- Students will practice using first and second conditional in writing tasks.
- Students will practice use of first and second conditional in speaking tasks.
- Students will rate themselves using the Grammar Rater Rubric.
From Personal to Biographical
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will respond to review questions with basic personal information in their native language.
- Students will use spelling tools.
- Students will combine personal information to write a short biography in English using tools to aid in translating, proper grammar and punctuation.
- Students will appropriate images to support their biographical information.
Inferences to Evidence
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will gather and infer and evaluate evidence from a text.
- Students will draw logical conclusions using evidence gathered.
- Students will apply a questioning process to make evidence-based conclusions.
Introduction to Verb Conjugations
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will be able to identify which family a verb belongs to.
- Students will be able to identify key verb vocabulary.
- Students will be able to distinguish examples from non-examples of conjugated verbs.
Irregular Verbs
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will identify present tense verbs in vocabulary.
- Students will write phrases using present tense verbs.
Learning Grammar: Contractions
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- ·Students will apply conventional English to edit sentences and paragraphs.
- Students will distinguish examples from non-examples.
- Students will identify where contractions are properly used, absolutely used, and where they are optionally used.
Learning Grammar: Past or Present?
ESOL Intermediate
Learning Targets:
- Students will listen and read examples of, and non-examples.
- Students will distinguish between proper and improper usage.
- Students will edit and correct sentences.