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Exemplar Lessons
Unless otherwise noted, materials on this site were written, designed and organized by Boyd Davis and Lisa Russell-Pinson, and should be credited as Davis, B. and Russell-Pinson, L. (2003). _name of material or download_. Project MORE (US DoE Grant T 195B010018). Retrieved _date_ from
http://education.uncc.edu/MOREK-12:
These printable lessons and units are designed to exemplify ways that K-12 teachers can use Project MORE's oral narratives to create or supplement lessons appropriate for English language learners in specific content areas. Each lesson below shows a different way to adapt materials.
Most of the lessons contain subject matter and techniques keyed to emphases and standards which are initially taught to younger students, and are part of the competencies assumed for older students. This is done in order to accommodate newcomer ELLs who may have had limited or interrupted schooling.
Content-area teachers, as well as sheltered-ESL and ESL teachers, can use the lessons to introduce content-area skills to newcomers in elementary and middle grades. With older students, teachers can reinforce those skills that are typically presented earlier.
A set of Exemplar lessons on science and mathematics has been developed for the Intergenerational Gallery. Sample lessons which can be used for science but which also can stand alone as lessons emphasizing skills in language arts or social studies, are included below ,indexed under LA and SS.
All lessons are © Project MORE, and subject to Fair Use policies and practices.
Content Area: Language Arts
Content Area: Social Studies
Content Area: Science/Math (Intergenerational Gallery)
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Elementary Focus
John Steptoe's Stevie
Stevie:Powerpoint Anthology of Ideas for
Teachers
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This PowerPoint presentation demonstrates how to link popular children’s literature with narratives from Project MORE’s collection; these materials interface with Open Court.
These materials interface with the story and teacher's guide in the
Open Court textbook as well as other elementary language textbook
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Concordances for vocabulary learning
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This set of
lessons is keyed to the definitions of skill levels at NCDPI. taken from
the ACTFL Guidelines http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/curriculum/second_languages/actflpg.htm
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lessons use concordancing techniques to help students see words in
context. You will find more
about this technique in the section called
Taking the
Next Step
#4 will also be suitable for older English language learners. |
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Elementary and above Concepts about time: clock, day, season
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This lesson may also be suitable for older English language learners.
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Practice sequencing through note-taking
In the Pumpkin Patch:
note-taking activities and games for teachers to use with students,
keyed to
Kyu Youl Lee's
retelling of a story about
Hungbu Noorbu |
A series of note-taking activities,
reinforced by board games. that promotes CALLA, the Cognitive
Academic Language Learning Approach (see
http://www.gwu.edu/~calla/ ) CALLA interfaces well with SIOP, the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol: see this online training module http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~nbh2/BME631coursepacket.html
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Grammar through cartoons and fables The Grasshopper and the Ant a writing worksheet that moves from matching and writing single-words to short summary
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Beginners use
cartoons and review –ing forms in order to practice writing
summary. |
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Elementary and Middle Focus
present/past tenses and story-cards The Weeping Woman & the White Hand (Part 2) write sentences with present/past tense
The Weeping Woman & the White Hand
(Part 4)
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This lesson is keyed to a Project MORE narrative about a folktale from
Colombia.
It introduces learners to writing definitions in content-area classes by
linking everyday language (BICS) to academic language (CALPS).
The lesson also supports students in using both sentence-level and
paragraph-level discourse. The lesson may also be suitable for older English language learners.
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Question-answer Patterns
Lead to Writing
Working with Beginners:
Expanding Question-Answer Patterns with oral narratives and trade books |
In this alternative or follow-up lesson to La Llorona (The Weeping
Woman...), learners listen again to the Colombian folktale narrative and
review writing definitions and descriptions for content-area classes; the
final activity requires learners to produce a paragraph based on one of
their content-area definitions or descriptions. The lesson may also be
suitable for older English language learners. |
| Comprehensible Input (a SIOP emphasis) |
SIOP,
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol, is "a
program model for teaching grade-level content in a way that is
understandable for ELL students while at the same time promoting their
English language development"
http://www.nwrel.org/request/2003may/instructional.html |
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Retelling for several
purposes Retelling and acting Retelling and analysis Retelling and cloze Retelling and comprehension skills for ESL students
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CMS teacher Kevin Clarke created a
series of lessons involving retelling, for his fourth and fifth
grade ESL students. (See retelling in Idaho's
ESL
strategies matrix) These three lessons model how retelling can lead to writing and acting, can support analysis and comprehension activities, and can be assessed with techniques such as the cloze. The last link is the PowerPoint of his findings about student improvement. |
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Writing from group
discussion Learning character traits from folklore: Complex Instruction Task cards and assessment prompts
for each lesson are built into the unit, and can also be printed
separately |
Kevin Clarke created this
six-lesson Complex Instruction unit for two reasons:
Examples of student responses accompany each lesson |
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Writing in stages -- writing
about science
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Prewriting activities, such as
brainstorming associations and short research activities, are useful for
ELLs. Review stages of process writing at
http://www.planet.eon.net/~bplaroch/index.html or contact a National
Writing Project Site via
http://www.writingproject.org/
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Middle and High School Focus
Emphasis on story-sequence and vocabulary in context
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This PowerPoint presentation features a Project MORE narrative that parallels high-interest stories in textbook series for older learners, such as Bridges to Literature. The picture-card technique works well in PowerPoint: Alex Case offers additional, humorous tips keyed to picture-cards at http://www.tefl.net/esl-articles/lesson-plans-tips.htm
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Use questions to guide
student reading Read Now: two novels for middle-school that -- if broken down into smaller parts by means of questions, for example -- can be handled by ELLs. Answers are provided. |
Guided Questions for
Sarah, Plain and Tall and The Witch of Blackbird Pond The materials for this pair of novels, typically used in language arts classes with middle-school readers, can easily be adapted for audiences with different degrees of fluency or whose previous experience with key concepts is limited
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Appropriate for All Grade Levels
When the text is too hard A PowerPoint anthology of strategies for |
This PowerPoint presentation demonstrates a range of strategies for adapting difficult texts to the needs of less proficient readers and English language learners, including the use of related oral narratives from Project MORE. |
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Elementary and Middle Focus
Map skills and reading Geography Reinforcement: Grandfather’s Solution Student Worksheets
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This lesson uses an excerpt from a Project MORE narrative to learn about locations across the U.S. It also includes writing activities in which learners research and write about states that interest them. This lesson may also be suitable for older English language learners. |
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Middle Focus
Identify and fill in missing skills Geography Reinforcement: Stories from My Mother and Father Student Worksheets
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This lesson is keyed to a Project MORE narrative about the places where the interviewee and her family have lived. The activities ask learners to locate countries on a world map and to read and write about a country that interests them. This lesson may also be suitable for older English language learners. |
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Technology, story, and social studies A Journey to the Past: a dual language (Spanish and English) unit. Explores
the effect of technology on our social and family values, particularly how
technology has made “stories” from the past available in the present. |
This unit by CMS teacher, Jose Rodriguez, was developed originally for Middle School Social Studies in a dual-language immersion classroom. It also works well for language arts in either language. Directions and printout lesson pages are primarily in English. Resources are in both languages. May also be suitable for older English language learners. |
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High School Focus
Writing and research strategies in a set of Student Worksheets
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(1) writing short definitions and descriptions relevant to social studies/history, (2) developing a definition or description into a paragraph, and
(3) expanding research in textbooks and websites as the basis for a
cumulative essay. |
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Combine
enrichment with reinforcement -- a pattern for Teacher-Notes Grandfather's Solution: Teaching the Great Depression
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These teacher-notes, keyed to a Project MORE narrative, offer ways to enrich and reinforce units on the Great Depression with suggestions for children's and adolescent novels, music, photographs, films and websites with appropriate historical background. |
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This lesson
could work well for several objectives for Grades 11-12 listed under
Social Studies/ Economics, Goal 6:
Formulate
a credit plan for purchasing a major item comparing different interest
rates
and also works well for career planning, for guidance and for workforce
development discussions of teen choices. |
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