ESOL Beginner

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Learning Targets:

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 Targets:

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

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.