This lesson allows teachers to enrich students' oral and written vocabulary using the EASE sequence of instruction: Enunciate, Associate, Synthesize, and Emphasize the words you want students to use.
Supporting Vocabulary Development with EASE
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Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
In this lesson, students connect to the oral tradition of epic storytellers by sharing their own oral tales of ghosts and goblins and monsters.
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Sí, Se Puede: Making a Difference, One Letter at a Time
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
After reading the book ¡Si, Se Puede!/Yes, We Can!: Janitor Strike in L.A., students learn about labor unions, strikes, and organizing for change. Students interview staff members in their school to learn about their daily work life, and write persuasive advocacy letters.
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Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
4 - 7
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
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Proverbs: At Home and around the World
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
In this lesson, students work with proverbs from home and from around the world, exploring how these maxims are tied to a culture's values and everyday experience.
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Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Grades
5 - 12
Strategy Guide
This strategy guide introduces the RAFT technique and offers practical ideas for using this technique to teach students to experiment with various perspectives in their writing.
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Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Grades
6 - 12
Strategy Guide
This Strategy Guide is for developing comprehension that incorporates the gradual release of responsibility model.
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Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
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6 - 12
Strategy Guide
In this Strategy Guide, you'll learn about a number of specific methods that can help you to gain a fuller picture of the interests of your students as well as what your students understand, know, and can demonstrate by doing.
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Using Paired Reading to Increase Fluency and Peer Cooperation
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K - 6
Strategy Guide
In this strategy, students read aloud to each other, pairing more fluent readers with less fluent readers. This strategy can also be used to pair older students with younger students to create "reading buddies."
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Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
Grades
6 - 12
Strategy Guide
Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
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Language Learners in the English Classroom
7 - 12
Professional Library
| Book
This book provides practical, research-based strategies that can help secondary-level English language learners meet the challenges of both language and content learning.
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Website Planning in a Bilingual Classroom
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students complete a family survey and plan a website to share the responses, increasing their understanding and appreciation of their own families and cultures, and their classmates as well.
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Making It Visual for ELL Students: Teaching History Using Maus
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
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Spark the engagement of English-language learners or reluctant readers with the graphic novel Maus. The visual information provided by the genre serves as a support for reading and critical engagement.
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Nature Study Outdoor Treasure Hunts (with Spanish language option)
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students take a walk on the wild side when they research an animal and create a scavenger hunt activity for their classmates.
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When I Was Young In...A Literature to Language Experience
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Unit
Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.
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Combining Read-Alouds With Economics in the Primary Grades
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students learn that what you read in books can really add up when they analyze literary texts for economic concepts.
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Using Pictures to Build Schema for Social Studies Content
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
How do you read an image? Students find out in this lesson in which they "read" several images of the Boston Massacre to better understand the event and recognize effects of propaganda.
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Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
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Using Folk Tales: Vowel Influences on the Letter G
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Gentle, gigantic, gracefuldo these g words describe the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk? Students will explore the hard and soft g sounds by studying fairy tales and animals.
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A Conversation with Matt de la Peña
6 - 12
Tune in to hear Matt discuss some of the thinking behind his newest novel, We Were Here.