Topic: Hispanic Heritage Month Date: Content Area:

Biographies ESL/Reading for Information/SS

Getting Started
State Standards: Materials:
Adapted Book
Computers
IPad
NYSAA ELA W11.1-Identify an area of AAC Devices
interest and gather relevant evidence Smart Board
from a source. (93121) Realia/Munipulitives
Proloquo App on IPad
- NLAPW.1.9-10.-Writing-Centered
Activity: Use pretaught words and
phrases to complete cloze paragraphs Vocabulary:
(sentences) that use a formal style to Autobiography
introduce claims and counterclaims, Biography
support them with sound reasoning and Hispanic Heritage
Activist
relevant evidence and conclude an
argument

ENL Methodologies:
CDOS-Universal Foundation Skills CALLA
3a-communicate effectively and help Whole Language Approach
SIOP
others learn a new skill. TPR
Content Objective: After a whole group guided
practice of writing a biography, students will be
able to research, compose and present a
biography on a famous Hispanic American.
Language Objective: Through using
differentiated/pro-rated sentence starters,
students will be able to complete sentence
starters with the correct pre-taught vocabulary
word/phrase.
Teaching Point: What is a biography? Who
are some notable Hispanic Americans that we
can write a biography about?
Task: Organize Pre-taught Academic Vocabulary
Daily Message: (Do Now)
Step Time Teacher Does: (A Students Do Remarks
combination of 1 or
2 of the following
activities)
Mini Lesson 10- 1.Teacher reviews 1. Students engage in reading the class Staff Assignmen
15 instructional agenda for objectives and agenda. Ed Assistants will
min the day: prompting, focusi
st
1 -Adapted Book at Smart
Board
2. Students participate in filling in the K and students througho
2nd Small Group Activity at W part of the KWL chart through verbal group read-aloud.
Computers responses, written responses or picture also take data to
3rd- Review Activity at the choices via the Proloquo Application on the knowledge.
Smart Board
Ipad.
 2.Teacher facilitates
whole group activity of 3. Student take turns reading, answering
filling K and W comprehension questions and identifying
section of K-W-L chart. vocabulary terms/phrases throughout the
text.
3. Teacher facilitates a
whole-group read aloud
of adapted 4. Students participate in whole-group
informational text. practice of the skill/activity that they are
about to engage in during the small group
4. Teacher models and section of the lesson.
facilitates whole group
practice of the lessons
small group
skill/activity.
Individual or 15- Teacher circulates TI TII TIII Staff Assignmen
Small Group 20 classroom and assists Students Students Students will Ed Assistants will
Activity Min students with their will will complete sentence small group activi
activities. complete complete starter that make all technological e
sentence sentence claims about
starters starters themselves.
that make that make Students will either
claims claims write their
about a about a responses with Assessment Too
famous famous text-only options -Data Collection S
Hispanic Hispanic or write their -Student Work Sa
American American responses -Rubrics
through through independently by -Observations
the use of the use of referencing
text and text only information online.
picture choices. Students will
choices. Students reference the
Students will internet to gather
will reference evidence for
reference the claims.
the internet to
internet to gather
gather evidence
evidence for claims.
for claims.

Sharing 10 Assessment: Report Staff Assignmen

min 1.Assess students 1. Students will gather at the Smart Board to will help engage s
while reviewing the take turns presenting their biographies with review. They will
small group activity their preferred method of communication. that can be used
as a whole group. Students will engage in
-Asking and answering questions individually
2.Assess students by (Indiv)
introducing new -Think-Pair-Share (Pair)
situation/application -Students asking other students the review
questions about questions with preferred methods of
lessons topic: communication(small group)
(Example: Selena
Gomez is from 2. Using their preferred method of
mexico. Does she communication, students will either explain or
have Hispanic identify (with choices) appropriate pre-taught
heritage?) vocabulary/phrases to use while discussing
answers to new questions.
3. Teacher prompts
students to fill in the 3. Using their preferred method of
L section of the KWL communication, students will give responses
chart. to fill in the L section of the KWL.
Homework-
Point System Review and Collection