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English Language Development — Grade 3

Goal 4. Writing — Intermediate Low, Objective IL 4.02

Goal 4. Writing

The learner will communicate in appropriate written English in a variety of personal, social, and academic contexts.

Level: Intermediate Low

Students will begin to use limited vocabulary to participate in discussions on familiar topics spoken at normal speed with periods of momentary silence. In addition, they may use forms of non-verbal communication to demonstrate comprehension. Learning objectives focus on identifying elements of a story, retelling text with limited vocabulary and adjectives, using decoding strategies to understand text, making predictions, using capitalization, editing writing for spelling, and following one-step and two-step directions.

Objective IL 4.02

Compose sentences with correct subject and verb agreement for regular verbs in the present tense.

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Awesome Action Words
Good writers use precise verbs to make stories interesting and vivid. In this lesson, students will learn to replace boring, redundant, generic verbs with more precise “Awesome Action Words.”
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
By DPI Writing Strategies.