ESOL Beginner

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.

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 answer comprehension questions following a story read.
• Students will write answers to comprehension questions using simple present and present progressive tenses.
• Students will identify examples and non-examples.

Learning Targets:

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

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 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 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.

Learning Targets:

• Students will write questions in simple present tense about a series of animal images.
• Students will use picture dictionaries to write sentences about animals using animal vocabulary.

Learning Targets:

• Students will listen to examples and non-examples of simple, past, and irregular verb usage.
• Students will analyze proper and improper usage verb use.
• Students will edit and correct sentences.

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:

• 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 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.