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Give It All You’ve Got!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2) Unit PlanGive It All You’ve Got!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2) Unit Plan
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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5th
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Give It All You’ve Got!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2)

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Go beyond the textbook to gain a better appreciation for the English language. A series of ESL lessons help expand the concepts found in Theme 2: Give It All You've Got. The second lesson in a three-part unit incorporates strategies such as word study, poetry, and even pantomime to clarify details in the text.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

academic intervention, academic language, reading comprehension strategies

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Pull readers for individualized instruction while the whole class works on an activity related to the text
  • Scaffold questioning by posing questions to the whole class, calling on lower-level learners to answer easier questions

Classroom Considerations

  • Set up the classroom as a theater in advance to help pique interest in the theater activity before it begins

Pros

  • Includes a key skill objective and academic language to accompany each activity
  • Scaffolds questioning for different levels of language learners

Cons

  • References CD-ROM and audio CD to enhance some of the lessons

Common Core

RL.5.2 L.5.1.c L.5.3.a L.5.4.b

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