Lesson Plan

My Food, my Family, my Health! English As a New Language (ENL) Stand-Alone Instruction for Grades 3-12

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Introduce your emergent bilinguals to the goals for learning English, while building vocabulary, alphabetic knowledge, reading, and writing!

Grade Levels: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Categories: Lesson Planning, Teaching Morphology, Teaching Oral Language, Teaching Phonics, Teaching Reading Comprehension, Teaching SIFE Adolescent Newcomers, Teaching Vocabulary, Teaching Writing

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Description

Teachers! This lesson is designed for the beginning of the school year for students in Grades 3-5 in the beginning stages of English language proficiency, but can easily be adapted through grade 12. 

It is meant to take place over the course of approximately 180 minutes (4 periods) of instruction.  

Lesson Objective: Students will identify and describe the foods they like and dislike, foods that represent their culture, and foods that are healthy and unhealthy.

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.
  • 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 develop decoding and spelling by matching the beginning sounds of words to letter-symbols, and reading and spelling target words with those sounds.
  • 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!