Present and Progressive Tense
Learning Targets:
- Students will demonstrate comprehension by answering comprehension questions following a story read.
- Students will write answers to comprehension questions.
Prepositional Nouns
Learning Targets:
- Students will be able to identify examples and non-examples of prepositional nouns in proper use.
- Students will be able to construct sentences and paragraphs using prepositional nouns.
- Students will be able to explain how prepositional nouns work in standard, conventional English.
First and Second Conditional
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.
Basic Grammar Sentences
Learning Targets:
- Students will identify present tense verbs in vocabulary.
- Students will write phrases using present tense verbs.
Using Time Markers
Learning Targets:
- Students will write and speak sentences about when things have happened.
- Students will explain how to use time markers to discuss events that happened in the past.
Student Profile Questions
Learning Targets:
- Students will complete sentences about themselves.
- Students will read their own complete sentences aloud to make edits.
- Students will read their own complete, edited sentences aloud to a partner.
- Partners will ask questions to each other and answer additional questions about themselves.
Word Sorts
Learning Targets:
- Students will identify words in their own language to sort categorically.
- Students will identify the same words in English and sort categorically.
- Students will identify and analyze individual phonemes within words.
- Students will fluently sound out words.
Close Reading and Writing
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.
New Word Inventory II
Learning Targets:
- Students will apply fix-it strategies to new words.
- Students will apply metacognitive strategies to what they already know about new words.
- Students will rate themselves as new word learners.
Battleship Phonics
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.
Learning Vocabulary: Building a Glossary
Learning Targets:
- Students will create a glossary of words to use as a resource.
- Students will identify cognates.
- Students will identify ELL-friendly definitions for identified words.
- Students will identify examples from text for each identified glossary word.
Using Verbs in Writing
Learning Targets
- Students will apply knowledge of basic grammar structure.
- Students will listen to examples and non-examples of simple, past, and irregular verb usage.
- Students will distinguish between proper and improper usage.
Learning Grammar: Past or Present?
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.
Oral Language: Story Writing and Story Telling
Learning Targets:
- Students will write, read and practice a story to read aloud.
- Students will apply “good speaking” skills to the retelling of their own story.
- Students
will rate their own oral reading using the Good Speaking Rubric.
Talking About Animals
Learning Targets:
- Students will make predictions and make connections to their own lives.
- Students will write questions in simple present tense.
- Students will use picture dictionaries to write sentences.
Essay Writing
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.
New Word Inventory I
Learning Targets:
- Students will apply fix-it strategies to new words.
- Students will apply metacognitive strategies to what they already know about new words.
- Students will rate themselves as new word learners.
Literature Webbing and Writing
Learning Targets
- Students will organize information from a guided reading into a literature web.
- Students will make predictions about an upcoming reading.
- Students will identify main idea.
- Students will identify chronological order of events.
Critical Literacy: Alternative Texts
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.
Peer Coaching
Learning Targets:
- Students will articulate via images their need for assistance with their writing.
- Students will act on feedback received about their writing to revise and edit their work into a final product.