A lesson focused on mastering academic vocabulary used in reading comprehension questions. Students will learn to distinguish between common analytical verbs and concepts through a hands-on matching game and reference guides.

A 45-minute ESL lesson for 4th graders focused on using the R.A.P. (Read, Ask, Paraphrase) strategy to understand animal adaptations. Students will learn to identify main ideas and details while practicing their summarizing skills with informational texts about unique animal survival traits.

A 45-minute Grade 4 ESL lesson focused on interpreting information from digital news articles. Students learn to navigate digital news features, identify key facts, and answer investigation questions using text evidence.

A 45-minute ESL lesson for 4th graders focused on using transitional words and phrases to sequence events, themed around building bridges between ideas.

A 45-minute writing lesson for Grade 4 ESL students (Level 3) focused on establishing characters and settings to orient the reader. Students will use sentence frames and visual maps to craft the beginning of a narrative.

A 45-minute Grade 4 ESL lesson focused on CCSS W.4.3.B, teaching students to use dialogue, sensory details, and 'show, don't tell' actions to bring characters and scenes to life.

A Grade 4 ESL lesson focused on point of view using 'The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs'. Students compare the narrator's perspective to understand how it shapes the 'facts' of a story.

A 45-minute lesson where students become newsroom investigators, learning to distinguish between objective hard news reporting and subjective opinion pieces through hands-on analysis and writing practice.

A 45-minute lesson for Grade 4 ESL students (Developing/Expanding) focused on identifying, comparing, and contrasting first-person and third-person points of view using a detective-themed 'case file' approach.

A 45-minute ESL lesson for 4th graders focused on identifying and describing cause-and-effect relationships in a scientific text about plant growth. Students use visual organizers, signal words, and sentence frames to master the concept.