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- Mandarin Chinese I | 中文课程1
- Part one of an online textbook for learning Mandarin Chinese.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Word family web
- Students play a fun game with spider and fly to build new words using known word families.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Peggy Johnson.
- Comparing proverbs
- The lesson will feature comparisons of American and African proverbs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Pat Chancer.
- Supermarket sweep: Day 1
- Students will talk about choices that families make when purchasing groceries. Students will make a booklet of frequently purchased grocery items.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Social Studies)
- By Angela Hunt and Melody Holmes.
- Language families
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.7
- Students will identify and locate the three language families of contact period North Carolina and calculate the physical area covered by each language family.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Mathematics and Social Studies)
- African American English
- In this activity, students learn about the history of African American English and the meaning of dialect and linguistic patterns. Students watch a video about African American English and analyze the dialect's linguistic patterns.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Hannah Askin.
- Bridging the differences: Cultural background of Mexican students entering U.S. schools
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 1.4
- Making the transition from life in Mexico to life in the United States can be difficult for students of Mexican origin. Schools and teachers can make that transition easier by understanding students' cultural backgrounds and by employing a few simple strategies.
- Format: article
- By Mary Faith Mount-Cors.
- The middle school challenge for English language learners of Mexican origin
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 3.2
- English language learners of Mexican origin face numerous challenges in American middle schools, including cultural segregation and assumptions made by schools regarding the students' educational backgrounds. This article offers strategies for educators to help students overcome those challenges.
- Format: article
- By Mary Faith Mount-Cors.
- “ottos mops” by Ernst Jandl
- This lesson is designed for students to enjoy a short amusing poem, as well as refine their knowledge of short “o” and long “o” sounds, and use higher order thinking skills to analyze who or what otto and mops are.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Helga Fasciano.
- 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.
- Read it backwards
- One editing technique that writers can use to help them catch their own spelling errors is "Read It Backwards." In this lesson, students will learn a procedure for identifying and correcting the spelling of misspelled words.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Family traditions
- This lesson is a follow-up to the lesson “Who's Your Mama? A Family Who's Who” and is mainly based on The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant; therefore, family structure including titles or roles is assumed to be prior knowledge for this lesson.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Laura Bahlmann and Mary Lail.
- Deficit thinking
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 4.2
- Teachers frequently attribute the academic struggles of English language learners to the students' inability or unwillingness to learn English, but this "deficit thinking" can better be replaced by a focus on what immigrant students bring to the classroom.
- By Buck Cooper.
- Play in the multilingual classroom
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 2.3
- Unstructured play is an important way for young children to make social and cultural connections. It also fosters language development and literacy skills for both English language learners and native English speakers.
- Format: article
- By Kristin De Soto Madson.
- Outer Banks English
- In this lesson plan, students view a video about the dialect of North Carolina's Outer Banks and develop an understanding of linguistic patterns.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Hannah Askin.
- Who's Your Mama?: A Family Who's Who
- This is the first of two lessons that can be used with Cynthia Rylant's book, The Relatives Came. Students will read, draw, role-play and sing about family roles and titles.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Social Studies)
- By Laura Bahlmann and Mary Lail.
- Life in a fishing village
- This was recorded on an island called Koh Sukorn, off the southeastern coast of Thailand. At first you hear the sound of me walking and the ocean. The fisherman here operate individually with their own motorboats and nets. You can hear one fisherman calling...
- Format: audio
- From rural Mexico to North Carolina
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 1.2
- Most immigrants to North Carolina from Mexico come from rural areas, and it is valuable for teachers to understand these students' cultural backgrounds.
- By Regina Cortina.
- Intrigue of the Past
- Lesson plans and essays for teachers and students explore North Carolina's past before European contact. Designed for grades four through eight, the web edition of this book covers fundamental concepts, processes, and issues of archaeology, and describes the peoples and cultures of the Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Little and big houses
- Using the book Little House on the Prairie and international keypals, students will learn about similarities and differences among children at different times and in different places.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
- By Karen Ester.
