Learning Styles and Resources

Culture Lesson and ELL Lesson

Amy Cotton, Jessica Paldino, Jordan Pedagna, Samantha Kramer

ELL Presentation Learning Styles:
Auditory: Assisting the visuals from the powerpoint, verbal cues were given providing examples and information, students were
instructed to share ideas to groups and partners throughout.

Visual: Charts were presented throughout, students participated in an activity involving visual representations of vocabulary.

Applied: Students were asked to provide their own examples of ways to provide information to ELL students, and had to
demonstrate the life cycle of a butterfly through different methods of explanation.

Verbal:Along with the visual slides, verbal cues and information was presented, directions were provided through written lists
and the presenter speaking, and students were able to discuss ideas and concepts with classmates.

Social: Students were informed to discuss information in groups and with the class and were allowed to solve activities in groups
or partners.

Creative: Students were given the opportunity to work out the cycle of butterflies; they could act, draw or verbally describe the
system.

Pragmatic: Students were asking to relate this information back to their real experiences through what they observed in the
classroom, or how they would implement what they learned into their own classrooms.

Independent: Students independently worked on brainstorming concepts on learning styles.

Spatial: Students were provided with visuals on the powerpoint that word mapped everything we would be talking about during
the presentation.
ELL Presentation Resources:
Textbook:

Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners. The SIOP Model. Jana
Echevarria, Deborah J. Short, and MaryEllenVogt.
Culture Presentation Learning styles:
Auditory: All topics were explained and examples of Russian language was provided through an auditory video.

Visual: Pictures for each topic discussed, charts, graphic organizers and videos, students compared ideas through a group venn diagram.

Applied: Students were asked to remember their own examples for information about Russia, and were provided with real life examples of
Russia today compared to the United States.

Spatial: Students were provided a descriptive chart of the government system and percentages for language.

Verbal: Along with the visual slides, verbal cues and information was presented, directions were provided through written lists and the
presenter speaking, and students were able to discuss ideas and concepts with classmates.

Social: As a class students reviewed important information about Russia, and completed a venn diagram with class.

Independent: On their own students worked to complete a culture graphic organizer and fill in the correct information to the best of their
abilities.

Creative: Students used background knowledge to discuss facts of Russia, and used a venn diagram to categorize similarities and differences
between Russia and the United states.

Pragmatic: Students were asked to related what they already knew about Russia to what they have learned and how that differs from their
own country.

Conceptual: Students were asked to organize facts about Russia and America in a Venn Diagram and to compare the two countries to each
other.
Culture Presentation Resources:
Education:
Russian-education-overview

the-education-system-in-russia-104072

Government:
https://www.hierarchystructure.com/russian-political-hierarchy/

Culture:
44154-russian-culture.html