Description
Teachers! This lesson is designed for the beginning of the school year with a 3-12 population of new students in the beginning stages of English language proficiency.
It is meant to take place over the course of approximately 180 minutes (4 periods) of instruction. It is designed to follow the sample lesson This is My School! – but you can also choose to do it in any order.
Lesson Objective: Students will identify the reasons they are studying English, the topics and skills taught in English as a New Language (ENL), and why studying English is important to them.
Feel free to change the pictures, vocabulary, and text to reflect your classroom! The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to their learning goals. Make this lesson your own by adding video, pictures, and whatever wonderful ideas you can think of!
Language Objectives:
- Students will demonstrate growth in comprehension, vocabulary, and oral and written language through listening, speaking, reading, and writing statements in the present tense using the subject pronouns.
- Students will develop alphabetic knowledge by identifying the initial sounds of target vocabulary, sorting them in alphabetical order, as well as practicing an alphabet warm-up routine.
- Students will practice handwriting, spelling, and sentence structure through sentence frames/stems and vocabulary use.
Teachers! Please adjust the photos and sentence frames to reflect YOUR school! Make this lesson your own to familiarize your students with their new school and community!
