ELP Standard 1:  Construct meaning from oral presentations and literary and informational text through grade-appropriate listening, reading, and viewing…

ELP Standard 8:  Determine the meaning of words and phrases in oral presentations and literary and informational text…  

ELP Standard 10:  Make accurate use of standard English to communicate in grade-appropriate speech and writing…

ELL Level 1:

Standards:

• Standard 1:  Use a very limited set of strategies to:  identify a few key words and phrases.
• Standard 8:  Relying heavily on visual aids, context, and knowledge of morphology in his or her native language:  recognize the meaning of a few frequently occurring words, simple phrases, and formulaic expressions.
• Standard 10:  With support (including context and visual aids):  understand and use a small number of frequently occurring nouns and verbs, respond to simple questions.

ELL Level 2:

Standards:

• Standard 1:  Use an emerging set of strategies to:  identify some key words and phrases, identify the main topic or message/lesson.
• Standard 8:  Using context, visual aids, and knowledge of morphology in his or her native language:  ask and answer questions about the meaning of frequently occurring words, phrases, and expressions.
• Standard 10: With support including visual aids and modeled sentences: recognize and use some frequently occurring collective nouns, recognize and use some frequently occurring verbs, adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions, produce simple sentences in response to prompt.

ELL Level 3:

Standards:

• Standard 1: Use a developing set of strategies to: identify the main topic or message, answer questions, retell some key details.
• Standard 8: Using context, some visual aids, reference materials, and developing knowledge of English morphology: determine the meaning of less-frequently occurring words and phrases, content specific words, and some idiomatic expressions.
• Standard 10: With support including modeled sentences: use some collective nouns, use the past tense of some frequently occurring irregular verbs, use some frequently occurring adjectives , adverbs, and conjunctions, produce and expand simple and some compound sentences.

Thematic Unit Focuses:

Unit 1: How do animal’s characteristics help them survive?

• Week 1 - Animals’ characteristics
• Week 2 - Animals’ adaptations
• Week 3 - Animals’ use of their special characteristics
• Skills - introduce fables, folktales, describe how characters influence the plot review elements of fiction-characters, setting, plot, create mental images, compare and contrast characters in two different texts by the same author, use context clues to determine meaning of new words,recognize text structures: Cause and effect,analyze first person point of view,compare and contrast two texts, explain how text structures contribute to Author’s Purpose

Unit 2: How do characters shape their stories?

• Week 1 - Characters in Fables
• Week 2 - Characters in Folktales
• Week 3 - Characters in Realistic Fiction
• Skills - ask questions, determine key ideas, use context clues to determine meaning of new words,recognize text structures: cause and effect, analyze figurative language (idioms) distinguish shades of meaning among verbs

Resources:

Standard 1:

• Read-aloud, (Scope online, group readings, leveled text, trade books, etc.)
• Simple written texts, (Treasure chest, leveled text, trade books, etc.)
• Oral presentations, (mini lessons, student reports ,or share outs)
• Poetry, repetitive texts, songs
• Best Practices in Reading workbook
• Retelling stories
• A-Z Learning

Standard 8:

• Group discussion and discourses
• Read-aloud and written texts about familiar topics, experiences and events,(trade books, leveled texts, group readings)
• Granny’s Candies vocabulary and figurative language activity book
• Amelia Bedelia books (idioms)
• Vocabulary Chipper Chat
• Idiom Tales
• Fun Decks, idioms, prefixes, suffixes, comparatives, contractions
• Crazy Cubes Prefix games
• Finish line suffix game
• A-Z Learning

Standard 10:

• Granny’s Candies,Verbs activity book
• Fun Decks, verbs, irregular verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, collective nouns, subjects and predicates
• Grammar Tales