Lower+Elementary+Curriculum+for+ELLs

2016
**Under the Sea ** // "Under the Sea" is a curriculum designed around educating lower elementary student about the ocean environment. These lesson plans contain a wide variety of activities and strategies that provide necessary language, literacy, and reading goals. It is our promise that 2nd grade teachers from any school could understand and instruct the attached lessons in hopes of improving the language development and writing process of their students. // **Targeted grade/subject:** 2nd Grade Language Arts


 * Content, Literacy, and Language Goals: **

Tricia:
 * Language Development: I will be able to retell the main idea of text using the terms main idea and details and I will be able to compose a written text,based on familiar ideas; I will be able to use content specific words, such as mammal, warm-blooded, temperature, calves, and blowholes to describe whales and I will be able to point out the comparisons made in the text.
 * Literacy Development: I will understand what onomatopoeia is and be able to give examples of it; I will be able to use similes to make comparisons.
 * Content Learning: I will be able to describe facts about dolphins; I will be able to explain details about whales, such as their size, how they breathe, how they feed their babies, and what a mammal is.

Cat:
 * Language Development: I will be able to use my new knowledge about octopi in conversation with my peers (ELL 1/2). I will be able to write and discuss sharks using new vocabulary I have learned (ELL 3/4)
 * Literacy Development: I will understand why the author structured the story so that we found out the purpose of the character’s actions in the end (ELL 1/2). I will be able to write a letter to a friend who is afraid of sharks and tell them some surprising things I learned about sharks. I will use what I know about letter writing and persuasion in my letter (ELL 3/4).
 * Content Goal: I will understand how the author used certain literary methods to teach her audience some facts about ocean life (ELL 1/2). I will be able to understand the dangers of people perceiving sharks as dangerous animals.I will be able to understand why we need sharks in the ocean (ELL 3/4)

Brooke:
 * Content Goals: I will be able to summarize the material and express my opinion about the text (ELL 1/2). I will be able to vocalize the importance of friendship and list qualities of a good friend (ELL 3/4).
 * Language Goals: I will be able to understand questions that are asked to me about this book -- fully comprehending the specific task, I will be able to understand the language used to communicate the moral of a story.
 * Literacy Goals: I will be able to interact with other students and voice my opinion about a book (ELL 1/2). I will be able to interact with other students and vocalize the importance a moral holds (ELL 3/4).

2015
Exploring the African Grassland <span style="color: #2d29e3; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 250%;">s! //<span style="color: #1c8ad9; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"Exploring the African Grasslands" is a curriculum designed around educating Lower Elementary students about the animals within the grasslands of Africa as well as provide necessary language instruction around animals, their habitats and everyday lives. This curriculum includes leveled informational and narrative texts as well as video, song, informal writing and formal writing lessons.It is our hope that you as teachers are able to use these lessons in order to teach your students language as well as content. // **Targeted grade/subject:** 1st Grade Social Studies

● Language Development: ● Literacy Development: ● Content Learning:
 * Content, Literacy, and Language Goals: **
 * Teach learners questions in English, question words
 * Prepositions and vocabulary expansion
 * Ask and answer key details about the texts
 * Differences between books that tell stories and books that give information
 * Learning about different African grassland animals lives!