Description
Teachers! This lesson is designed for students in Grades 3-12 in the beginning stages of English language proficiency, but can easily be adapted for the lower grades.
It is meant to take place over the course of approximately 180+ minutes (4 periods or more) of stand-alone instruction.
Lesson Objective: Students will identify and describe urban animals in NYC (or, you can adapt the lesson for another city) and identify the features of mammals in general.
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 location! Make this lesson your own to familiarize your students with their school and community!
