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- 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
- Wish you were here!
- Students apply their knowledge of vocabulary and writing skills along with art skills to create a postcard.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Maggie Harder.
- You sank my battleship
- Students will learn how to plot ordered pairs using the coordinate plane and determine in which quadrant these ordered pairs lie. Students will show mastery of plotting ordered pairs by playing Battleship. Modifications have been added for Intermediate Low English Language Learners.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 and 9–12 English Language Development and Mathematics)
- By Theadore Taylor and Justine Busto.
- 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. This plan could be easily adapted for eighth grade or high school ESL students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Tami Weaver and Wendy Pineda.
- The ABCs of the Three Little Pigs
- This lesson uses a familiar fairy tale to teach writing. It is designed to emphasize using varied sentence patterns in writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Penny Canipe.
- English language learners
- An introduction to LEARN NC's resources for teachers and administrators working with students with limited English proficiency.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Food choice in our everyday lives
- Focuses on everyday foods and how these foods relate to the food pyramid. Students will recognize food vocabulary in the target language (Spanish) and will make healthy food choices by creating thinking maps, a school menu in the target language, and exploring food choices from around the world.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Healthful Living and Second Languages)
- By Gina Benson and Laura Epting.
- A matter of identity: Writing an extended metaphor poem
- Students apply their knowledge of literary devices by reading and analyzing the poem “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco. Students then create their own poem incorporating the literary devices studied and analyzed in the above mentioned poem. This lesson includes modifications for a Novice Low Limited English student.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Susan Brooks and Carrie Mabry.
- 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.
- Sequential vocabulary: Lesson I
- Understanding words is necessary for success in every discipline. Learning to identify and define word parts empowers a student to unlock the meaning of unfamiliar words. This process teaches a life skill rather than memorization of definitions. Sequential Vocabulary: Lesson I is designed to be taught with Sequential Vocabulary: Lessons II, III, and IV.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- By Valerie Hendricks.
- Discovering just the right word
- Precise word choice helps show the reader a story and not just tell a story. The purpose of this series of lessons is to help students improve their writing style by strengthening word choice at the word and sentence level by adding adverbs, precise verbs, and specific nouns.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Creature creation: An elaboration writing activity
- This lesson will focus on the writing element of elaboration. It will also tap into higher order thinking skills with the creation of a Coastal Plain imaginary animal and a creative story about the creature. This lesson could be linked to 4th grade Science and Social Studies objectives. For more in-depth knowledge in those other subjects, go to the lesson entitled Researching the Coastal Plain
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Ana Sanders and Heather Ennis.
- First Americans of North Carolina and the United States
- This lesson will use shared reading, center time, hands-on projects, and journal writing to help learners discover facts about first Americans, particularly those in the region that is today North Carolina, while at the same time developing their English language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Adriane Moser.
- A “defining moment” in editorial writing
- Students will be introduced to the definition mode of writing. Students will learn to define a particular subject by responding in an editorial format. Students will first compose an editorial graphic organizer, which will aid in composing a completed editorial using the writing process. This lesson includes modifications for a Novice Low Limited English student.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Susan Brooks and Carrie Mabry.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.'s “I Have A Dream” speech
- Students will display their understanding of the symbolism and references that Dr. King used to enrich his famous speech on August 28, 1963 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by constructing a “jackdaw,” a collection of documents and objects.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Charlotte Lammers.
- Flying high with hot air balloons!
- This lesson is written for the Novice High Second Language Student. This lesson uses the historical fiction book, The Big Balloon Race by Eleanor Coerr, to reinforce basic vocabulary, introduce new vocabulary while tying into many community sponsored hot air balloon events held in the fall.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Barbara Boal.
- About this "digital textbook"
- LEARN NC's "digital textbook" for North Carolina history provides a new model for teaching and learning. It makes primary sources central to the learning experience, using them to tell the stories of the past rather than merely illustrating it. Special web-based...
- Format: article
- Cultural Symbolism and Themes of The Old Man and the Sea
- Students will be able to recognize themes and cultural symbols in the novel. The novel's setting and Spanish cultural aspect will appeal to a large number of Hispanic background students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Development)
- By Sandra Hurd and Wilma Gale.
- I, the basket: Writing a first-person story as an inanimate object
- In this interdisciplinary lesson for grade seven, students explore the first-person point of view through children's literature and images of Nepal. Students exhibit their understanding of first-person narrative by writing a children's story from the perspective of an inanimate object.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Issues, we've all got them: Language arts/visual arts integration
- Students will learn how to deal positively with social issues important in their lives through personal investigation of social issues addressed in literature and art.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and English Language Development)
- By Runell Carpenter.
