Module 4 –Assignment - Lesson Sharing

Preparation/Planning

ESL Course: ELD

Topic/Theme: School Level Beginnin Intermediate Advanced Multilevel

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Listening Listening will be fostered since the students will listen to the instructor and
others read parts of a story.
Objectives
Speaking Speaking will be fostered since the students will be required to answer questions
about the story and engage in discussion questions.

Reading Reading will be fostered since the focus of this lesson will be reading.

Writing Writing will be fostered since students will be required to write the responses to
the comprehension questions.

Bridging

What background Students will already have learned and practiced the basic vocabulary
knowledge do the regarding school.
students already have?

What will you do to Students’ prior knowledge that they have learned – the school vocabulary – will
activate or link be used naturally in a story that the students read and answer questions
students’ prior about. Students’ prior skills – reading aloud – will be practiced just as they
knowledge or have done before, but with the new words.
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experience to upcoming
content?

Engagement with New Material

What will you do to Together, the class will read a story about a young boy in school. The story will
engage students in the have 5-10 paragraphs. For some paragraphs, I point to the words as the entire
active learning of the class reads together. For other paragraphs, students play “popcorn” and take
new material? turns reading the paragraphs.

What will you do to Reading a few of the paragraphs together (all at once) will ensure that all
ensure that all students students are engaged. All students will also be expected to answer the
are engaged? comprehension questions after each paragraph. Each student will have a
numbered list in which they write the answers for each question.

Application

What opportunities will I am including all four language domains in this lesson. The objective for each
you provide students to domain revolves around a core objective of reading and understanding a
practice and apply their written text. I will include all four domains in this activity.
knowledge/skill to meet
the objectives for this The students will practice listening by listening to the instructor and their peers
lesson? To apply to read the story. They will also practice listening by listening the questions that I
other contexts? ask.

Students will practice speaking by engaging in comprehension checks after

each paragraph. This is a practice in which I ask comprehension questions that
they students respond to.

Students will practice reading by reading the written text together with the
class.
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Students will practice writing by writing the answers to the comprehension
questions about the text.

To apply their skills to other contexts, I also ask discussion questions in

addition to the comprehension questions. This gives students opportunities to
use the target language while connecting the current topic to other contexts.

Assessment

How will you assess I will assess learning of the objectives mainly through the answers to the
their learning of the comprehension questions. The goal is to read and understand the story, and
objectives? the answers to the comprehension questions show if the students have
understood what was happening in the story.

Closing

How will you help The purpose of the lesson is to introduce students to authentic text and speech
students recap the regarding school vocabulary. One of the ways that I like to close lessons in
learning and link it back which students read a text is by reviewing and explaining the answers to the
to the original purpose comprehension questions. This helps students cover any material that they
of the lesson? missed, and it helps build their confidence in the language while filling in any
gaps in grammar, vocabulary, or communication.

Technology

If applicable for your A smartboard will be used for students to read the actual text. Throughout the
context and your reading and questioning activity, I will be highlighting keywords and phrases so
lesson, how will you that students know where to look and/or what to focus on.
meaningfully integrate
technology into your
lesson?
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To open the lesson, I will have the students play a five-minute Blooket game to review the

vocabulary that they learned the day before. This is the vocabulary that the story that they will read will

use. This gives them a minute to get settled before the story but also prepares them for it. The

sequencing of the activities of the lesson will flow naturally: reading, pausing often for checks and

comprehension questions, asking discussion questions after the story, and reviewing the comprehension

questions together as a class. This sequencing allows some independence, active involvement, checks for

understanding, as well as reassurance that they can review at the end. This activity will easily take 30-40

minutes to complete because most sentences need to be broken down for learners, and discussion

questions in the target language can last as long as the teacher allows them. Finally, the lesson will be

closed by having the students correct their answers (with a different colored pen so that I can still monitor

their progress) so they can learn, seek explanations, and improve.