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- Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools
- These articles provide background on Latino immigrants in North Carolina, administrative challenges in binational education, and strategies through which teachers can build on what Latino students bring to their classrooms to create a learning environment that meets the needs of all students.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- About the English Language Development Standard Course of Study
- An introduction to the North Carolina curriculum for English language learners, including an explanation of the domains and proficiency levels of language acquisition.
- Format: article/help
- Lesson Planning for English Language Learners Using the WIDA/ELP Standards: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for Lesson Planning for English Language Learners Using the WIDA/ELP Standards, a course that provides ESL and regular K-12 classroom teachers an opportunity to plan lessons using the new NC Standard Course of Study for Limited English Proficient students known as the WIDA/ELP Standards.
- Format: syllabus
- English language learners
- An introduction to LEARN NC's resources for teachers and administrators working with students with limited English proficiency.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Scaffolding Content for English Language Learners (6-12): Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for the course Scaffolding Content for English Language Learners (6-12), an introduction to working with English language learners in the mainstream 6-12 grade classroom.
- Format: syllabus
- Spanish-English picture dictionary
- Developed by J. D. Alexander, this picture dictionary provides a quick reference and communication tool for teachers greeting immigrant children who speak little English. Each page includes a clear photograph or illustration captioned in both English and Spanish....
- Format: document/book
- Scaffolding Content for English Language Learners (K-5): Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for Scaffolding Content for English Language Learners (K-5)an introduction to working with English language learners in the mainstream K-5 classroom.
- A Crash Course in ESL: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for the course A Crash Course in ESL which provides a concise overview of strategies and best practices for administrators working with English language learners.
- Format: syllabus
- Poisonous Plants and You
- This lesson is designed to teach students to identify common poisonous plants. Using a K-W-L chart, the teacher will facilitate a brainstorming session to determine students' present knowledge of poisonous plants and what is to be learned. The activities in this lesson may be used in conjunction with textbook information on this subject.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Development and Information Skills)
- By Regina Woodie.
- Understanding the WIDA English Language Proficiency Standards
- The NC English Language Proficiency Standard Course of Study is the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) English Language Proficiency Standards [approved by the State Board of Education June 5, 2008]. These standards are K-12. English...
- Format: document/policy
- English language learners and special education testing
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 3.4
- English language learners are often incorrectly labeled with learning disabilities because of inffective diagnostic tests. A more effective model of testing and instruction would be based upon the educational concepts of scaffolding instruction and the Zone of Proximal Development.
- Format: article
- By Mary Faith Mount-Cors.
- The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
- This lesson plan focuses on a English Language Arts objectives: similarity and difference. Students compare the story The Three Little Pigs and The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas. Students will work collaboratively in small heterogeneous groups to apply strategies for comprehension and vocabulary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Betty Coleman-Canty and Michelle Swain.
- Survival! A Lesson for Language Arts and Novice ESL Students
- Students brainstorm to orally identify and agree upon ten elements necessary for survival. Students will create a categorized chart of the items necessary for survival. Using the chart and working within groups, students will use the chart to create a Survival board game.
This lesson serves well as an introductory activity for students who will read a novel with a setting in another country or culture, or as the basis of comparing two different time periods or cultures.
It is modified for the Novice High English Language Learner. - Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Cynthia Moretz.
- About the North Carolina Standard Course of Study
- An explanation of the state curriculum and how LEARN NC aligns resources to it.
- Format: article/help
- Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens
- Students read, discuss, and write about Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens by Spencer Johnson, M.D., a parable about life's changes, and how best to benefit from them. By reading the parable, students will learn ways to react positively to inevitable change, and gain insight into their personal decision-making processes regarding changes in their lives, now and in the future. This lesson plan is modified for Advanced English Language Learners in the 9th and 10th grades. It is written for 45 minute class periods, but can be modified for 90 minute block classes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Ann Gerber.
- Classification of matter
- Students are introduced to the concept of different kinds of matter. Students create models of different substances to learn to identify the differences between elements, compounds, and mixtures. This lesson is developed so that teachers can use it with English as a Second Language students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Development and Science)
- By Anya Childs and Rhonda Garrett.
- History of atomic theory
- This lesson is developed for a regular low level physical science class. In small groups, students will use media and written script to learn and teach each other about major contributions to the development of the atomic theory.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Development and Science)
- By Anya Childs and Rhonda Garrett.
- The American Dream
- In conjunction with a unit on Puritanism, students will define and illustrate their personal definition of the American Dream or their concept of the dream in general.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Becky Ackert and Deborah Belknap.
- Women's ACC Basketball Tournament School Day curriculum
- Four collections of basketball-based units for grades K–8 teach all areas of the curriculum through the lens of the 2010 Women's ACC Basketball Tournament.
- Format: activity
- Multiplying polynomials
- In this lesson, students apply their knowledge of distributive property to multiply polynomials. The process of multiplying by the FOIL method is developed. The English Language Development goals and objectives for this lesson are for a Novice High English Language Learner (ELL).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Development and Mathematics)
- By Seth Beale and Wendy Sumner.
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