LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 1. Listening

The learner will comprehend spoken English in a variety of personal, social, and academic contexts.

Level: Novice High

Students will begin to use simple words and phrases, while continuing to use forms of non-verbal communication to express ideas and demonstrate comprehension. They may use pictures, actions, and limited verbal responses to show their understanding. Learning objectives focus on using one-word responses to answer familiar questions, demonstrating comprehension of oral presentations, using simple words and phrases to ask questions, retelling familiar stories using gestures, identifying common word families, recalling facts and details from text, reading simple text, printing legibly, using correct word order and spacing, spelling emergent sight words, composing simple sentences, and following one-step and two-step directions.

Objective NH 1.02

Understand and follow one-step and two-step directions and instructions with modeling and prompting when spoken slowly and distinctly.

Resources aligned to this objective

Comparing Governments - Local, State, and National
This lesson on comparing governments will focus on looking at the similarities and differences between local, state, and federal governments in North Carolina and the United States. It is suggested that this lesson be followed by "Comparing Governments - International" by Tami Weaver and Wendy Pineda, also found on the Learn NC website.

This plan could be easily adapted for eighth grade or high school ESL students.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, Social Studies, and English Language Development)
By Tami Weaver and Wendy Pineda.