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Active Listening

Active Listening

Learning Targets:

  • Students will acquire active listening skills.
  • Students will apply active listening skills to a story read-aloud.
  • Students will apply active listening skills to a discussion about the story.
  • Students will rate their own listening skills using the Good Listening Rubric.


Reciprocal Teaching

Reciprocal Teaching

Learning Targets:

  • Students make predictions using short chunks of text while reading aloud.
  • Students increase comprehension by reading relevant pieces of text.
  • Students share their predictions aloud and with a peer when possible.


Know, Want to Know, Learned

Know, Want to Know, Learned

Learning Targets:

  • Students will understand how to complete a KWL form after reading a short selection of text.
  • Students will apply understanding of KWL to independent use of the KWL strategy for reading comprehension.
  • Students will apply listening and speaking skills through shared and independent reading.


Sound Cards

Sound Cards

Learning Targets:

  • Students will read increasingly complex words using letter/sound knowledge
  • Students will demonstrate the regularities and irregularities of familiar words.
  • Students will spell according to sound with accuracy.
  • Students will spell according to irregular word spellings with accuracy.

Highlighting and Annotating

Highlighting and Annotating

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.


Reading and Writing for Main Ideas

Reading and Writing for Main Ideas

Learning Targets:

  • Students will identify main ideas and supporting details in paragraphs.
  • Students will rank-order ideas.
  • Students will organize and write their own paragraphs.


Simple Present and Present Progressive Tense in Writing

Simple Present and Present Progressive Tense in Writing

Learning Targets:

  • Students will demonstrate comprehension with questions.
  • Students will write answers to comprehension questions using simple present and present progressive tenses.


Sentence Patterns and Word Cards

Sentence Patterns and Word Cards

Lesson Targets:

  • Students will apply language structure to words and sentences.
  • Students will build vocabulary through oral language practice and word categorization.
  • Students will engage in shared and interactive reading and writing.

Marzano's 1-4 for Vocabulary

Marzano's 1-4 for Vocabulary

Learning Targets:

  • Students will investigate terms related to new vocabulary words and terms using tools and context.
  • Students will describe and explain new vocabulary words and terms.
  • Students will restate sentences in their own words with new words and terms.
  • Students will engage in interactive activities that engage them in new words and terms.


Story Writing, Story Telling

Story Writing, Story Telling

Learning Targets:

  • Students will design their own story using a storyboard and images.
  • 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.


Clunks and Clues

Clunks and Clues

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.


Reading and Writing: The Association Chain

Reading and Writing: The Association Chain

Learning Targets:

  • Students will identify words they know from a word bank.
  • Students will write words and phrases in their native language that associate (i.e.., cognate) with the selected words.
  • Students will expand words to short phrases about the target word.
  • Students will translate target words and phrases to English.


Reading and Writing: Similarities and Differences

Reading and Writing: Similarities and Differences

Learning Targets:

  • Students will identify similarities and differences in sounds among words in both the target and native languages.
  • Students will identify similarities and differences in words.
  • Students will isolate sounds and letters using “magnetic pieces” in the target and native languages.


Battleship Phonics

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.


Writing Commitment Cards

Writing Commitment Cards

Learning Targets:

  • After brainstorming, students will identify and design tips to offer advice in their native language.
  • Students will explain why in written English.
  • Students will translate their selected tip in their home language and translate to proper English.
  • Students will publish their tip with accompanying graphics.


Word Sorts

Word Sorts

Learning Targets:

  • Students will identify words in their own language and 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 and individual phonemes within words.


Picture Story Writing

Picture Story Writing

Learning Targets:

  • Students will identify pictures that tell a story.
  • Students will arrange the images in chronological order to depict a story in the order of their choice.
  • Students will subtitle the images in their native language.
  • Students will translate the subtitles using a Story Map to tell their story.


Writing: From Personal to Biographical

Writing: From Personal to Biographical

Learning Targets:

  • Students will respond to review questions with basic information in their native language.
  • Students will use tools to correctly spell.
  • Students will write short biographies of themselves in English.
  • Students will appropriate images to support their biographical information.


Learning Grammar: Irregular Verbs

Learning Grammar: Irregular Verbs

Learning Targets:

  • Students will identify irregular verbs in vocabulary and sentences.
  • Students will write sentences and phrases using irregular verbs.


Close Reading and Writing

Close Reading and Writing

Learning Targets:

  • Students will ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text by referring explicitly to the text.
  • Students will describe characters in a story.

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