A comprehensive 4th-grade poetry unit focusing on figurative language, theme, and setting analysis, culminating in student-authored original poems aligned with Illinois ELA standards.
A comprehensive end-of-year assessment for Grade 4 ESL students, covering morphology, vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
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 5 ESL lesson focused on researching extreme weather using multiple sources. Students investigate tornadoes, hurricanes, or blizzards to build knowledge through structured investigation.
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.
A 45-minute ESL lesson for 5th graders to analyze how point of view influences the description of events using the classic fable of The Three Little Pigs versus the Wolf's perspective.
An engaging 45-minute ESL lesson for Grade 4 students focused on chronological order and sequencing through the exciting lens of a space mission. Students will use transition words, sequencing cards, and a scaffolded graphic organizer to master the order of events.
A 45-minute ESL lesson for grade 4 focused on identifying and comparing the structural elements of prose, poetry, and drama. Students act as genre detectives to find clues like stanzas, stage directions, and chapters.
Students will identify and compare four major text structures: chronology, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution. Through an architectural 'blueprint' theme, ESL students will learn signal words and structural patterns to improve reading comprehension.
Students will learn to summarize narrative texts using the 'Somebody Wanted But So Then' (SWBST) framework. This lesson is designed for Grade 4 ESL students at the developing/intermediate level, focusing on identifying key plot elements and synthesizing them into a concise summary.