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TC TESOL K-12 Program

Lesson Plan
Central Focus:
Grade Level: Date:
Content Objectives: Language Objectives:

Assessment of Content Objective (how will you Assessment of Content Objective (how will you
know if students have mastered the objective?) know if students have mastered the objective?)

CCSS Content Standard: ELPD Standard(s)/TESOL ELP Standards

Materials:

Prior Academic Knowledge and Conceptions:

Supporting English Language Development in the Content Areas: Academic Language

Language Function:

Academic Language Competencies: Vocabulary and Key Terms:

(at least one: grammatical, pragmatic, discourse,
metalinguistic)

Language Supports:
(Linguistic, graphic, visual)

Instructional Strategies and Learning Tasks

Description of what the teacher and students will be doing.
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Lesson Format: Support Structures

Use this space to create a comprehensive and linear plan of Use this space and move around the
how you will carry out your content and learning objectives. arrows to indicate at which points in the
lesson you will provide the following
(include descriptions):
● Language-Focused Structured
Practice and Application
● Differentiation/Planned Support
● Leveled Questions
Introduction: ←
____Minutes ←
←

Instruction:
____Minutes
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Closure:
____Minutes

LEVELED QUESTIONS: Indicate the wording of 3 leveled questions for each language proficiency
level of ELLs in your group of students.

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5

Appendix

Guiding Questions and Meanings for your Understanding

(NOT necessary to include when turning in lesson plans)

Central Focus
What is the central focus for the content in the learning segment?

ELPD Standard(s)/TESOL ELP Standards (TESOL, 2006)

e.g., WIDA or state ELPD standard[s] that are the target of student learning.
(Note: Please list the number and text of each standard that is being addressed. If only a portion of a
standard is being addressed, then only list the part or parts that are relevant.)

CCSS Content Standard

What CCSS standard(s) are most relevant to the learning goals?

Content Objectives (related to the subject matter central focus)

Language Objectives (related to key language function, task, or skill)

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Prior Academic Knowledge and Conceptions

● What knowledge, skills, and concepts must students already know to be successful with this
lesson?
● What prior knowledge and/or gaps in knowledge do these students have that are necessary to
support the learning of the skills and concepts for this lesson?

Introduction:
● How will you start the lesson to engage and motivate students in learning?
● What will you do to engage students in developing understanding of the lesson objective(s)?

Instruction
What will you do to model the language forms/vocabulary/function/skills?
How will you link the new content (skills and concepts) to students’ prior academic learning and their
personal/cultural and community assets?
What will you say and do? What questions will you ask?
How will you engage students to help them understand the concepts?
What will students do?
How will you determine if students are meeting the intended learning objectives?

Language-Focused Structured Practice and Application

How will you give students the opportunity to practice the target language so you can provide feedback?
How will students apply what they have learned?
How will you determine if students are meeting the intended language objectives?

Differentiation/Planned Support
● How will you provide students access to learning based on individual and group needs?
● How will you support students with gaps in the prior knowledge that is necessary to be
successful in this lesson?
● How will you differentiate the task(s) for:
Students with different ELP levels:
Whole Class:
Groups of students with similar needs:
Individual students:
Students with IEPs or 504 plans:
● How will you engage ELLs at different levels of language proficiency? Include a table with
● LEVELED QUESTIONS to differentiate your instruction for the different levels of language
proficiency represented in your classroom.

Language Function
● What one language function is essential for students to engage in the content-area learning
within your central focus?
● What must students understand in order to be intellectually engaged in the lesson?

Academic Language Demands:

Given the language function and learning task identified above, what language demands (written or oral)
associated with the content area do students need to understand and/or use?
● Vocabulary or key phrases
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Plus at least one of the following:

● grammatical competence (vocabulary and structure)
● pragmatic competence (appropriate use of communication strategies)
● discourse competence (cohesion and coherence)
● metalinguistic competence (language learning strategies) What content specific terms
(vocabulary) do students need to support learning of the learning objective for this lesson

Language Supports
What instructional supports (during and/or prior to the learning task) that help students understand and
successfully use the language function and additional language demands will you use. Use the following
to plan your language supports:
● Linguistic Support (e.g. definition of key terms within sentences, modification of sentence
patterns, use of redundancy)
● Graphic Support (e.g. charts, tables, timelines, graphic organizers)
● Visual Support (e.g. real objects, manipulatives, photographs, pictures, diagrams, models,
videos)