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 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:

• 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.

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 organize information onto a graphic organizer to write an essay of their own.
• Students will review and analyze published essays to develop familiarity with, and understanding of, the genre.
• Students compile organized information into a full essay for publication.

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.

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 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 identify letters of the alphabet.
• Students will identify clusters of sounds to align letter clusters and full words.
• Students will answer questions in short written phrases.

Instructor: Dr. Susan Ruckdeschel

Learning Targets:

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

Instructor: Dr. Susan Ruckdeschel

Learning Targets:

• Students will listen to and read examples and non-examples of past and present tense verbs.
• Students will analyze verb use to distinguish between proper and improper usage.
• Students will edit and correct sentences for proper verb tense.

Instructor: Dr. Susan Ruckdeschel

Learning Targets:

• Students will identify word sounds and clusters in images.
• Students will subtitle images with full words in English.
• Students will answer questions and respond to prompts about grammar.

Instructor: Dr. Susan Ruckdeschel

Learning Targets:

• Students will create a glossary of words to use as a resource in all content areas of instruction.
• Students will identify cognates and definitions.
• Students will identify examples from text for each identified glossary word.
• Students will pronounce words with fluency.

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 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 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.

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 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 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 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.