Linking Language

Linking Language

Preparation
Class Profile: Neptali Sancho High School English Tenth Course Total # of Students: P = 15 students in the Preproduction stage EP = 10 students in the Early Production stage S = 5 students in the Speech emergent stage I Ahh! = 6 students in the Intermediate Fluency stage = 4 students in the advanced fluency stage

Content Objective (CO): We will be learning about the vocabulary to write a postcard about students last vacation. Language Objectives (LO): Listening: We will listen to our peers in small groups when sharing out information in base groups and home groups. Speaking: .We will individually share the vocabulary in our posters and the relation in our groups. We will discuss in small groups the overall comprehension of the topic. We will tell individually about the postcard about last vacation.

Reading: We will read individually what is on the posters. Writing: We will write in pairs a postcard about their last vacation.
Source: Taken and adapted from Herrera, Kavimandan, & Holmes (2011) p. 14-20.

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Key Vocabulary: Souvenirs ( PI) Seafood Stay (PI) Sightseeing (I) Shrimps (PI) Crowded (I) Weather (EP) ** Materials Needed for the following activities: Poster papers with pictures on them (one per group), markers/colored pencils, books/curricular materials Poster papers Pictures Markers Cardboard Slices (PI) Take a boat ride (I)

Activation: A Canvas of Opportunity

(Informing Instruction) Directions:

Im building on a lesson of places and past verbs that would have been taught the previous week.

At the beginning of the class I will introduce the Content and Language objectives for the lesson. I will place students in groups of five students according to a color paper that I will give to them. I will instruct students to write or draw everything they think or feel when they look at the picture.

Source: Taken and adapted from Herrera, Kavimandan, & Holmes (2011) p. 14-20.

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I will allow students 2 minutes for students in each group to write. Then all groups will have to rotate to the next picture. I will rotate around the room and circle any words that come close to the target vocabulary for the lesson.

Connections: The Broad & Narrow Strokes of Learning

(Interaction, Application, & Accommodation) Directions: Once all groups have returned to the original charts they will have to review all the information that was placed on the chart. I will ask students to identify common ideas or vocabulary by circle them or connecting them with a line.

Students will have to find connecting words found on the paper. I will share with the students the academic vocabulary words for the day and have them for associations between the words on the posters and the academic vocabulary of the topic. I will ask students to share the associations from the posters and I will have them add the actual academic vocabulary words of the lesson to the poster. After students have finished adding to the posters I will ask them predict what the lesson is going to be about based on the pictures and words that are on the posters. I will provide opportunities to the groups to confirm or discorfirm their predictions about the lesson by clarifying their understandings of the vocabulary words.

Source: Taken and adapted from Herrera, Kavimandan, & Holmes (2011) p. 14-20.

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Affirming: A Gallery of Understanding

(Assessment of Student Learning) Directions: I will give students groups 4 minutes to discuss their overall comprehension of the topic.

I will ask students in pairs to write a postcard about their last vacation using the words on the posters. When they are done writing, I will have them share what they wrote.

Source: Taken and adapted from Herrera, Kavimandan, & Holmes (2011) p. 14-20.