Hi everyone!
Happy May… I can’t believe we are heading into the last weeks of school. My last big language unit for the year is a Compare and Contrast unit using vocabulary from Text Features and Graphical Devices (visual information such as: diagrams, timelines, and flowcharts.
We are using these graphical devices and text features as our vocabulary that goes with our compare and contrast language. This is the chart we are using that lists some of the major graphical devices and as we compare different books and texts we are adding their covers to the graphical devices they contain. On the right side are student drawn examples of other text features we are finding.
I started my unit using the term “graphical devices”, as you can see here in this picture of my sentence frames, but I changed the term to ‘text features’, which is more commonly used and understood.
I started working on this unit after I read this great article from Reading Rockets titled,
Click here to go to that article.
After I read it, I decided to adapt it to an ESL lesson that would go for several weeks.
I chose Compare and Contrast, as the language function and it fit perfectly.
It was the language function I wanted to end the year with.
From there so many of the details and resources I needed were outlined in the article.
It is turning out well.
I will keep you posted and share a song I
wrote that goes with the unit in my next post
about text features and graphical devices!!
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Formal and Informal Language This 23-page packet contains everything you need to teach the differences between formal and informal language to your elementary students. The first thing students need to be able to do is to identify that there are two kinds of language. Next, the students must be able to determine the oral language used in each situation. Finally, students should be able to produce the formal language required by writing. •WORD WALL CARDS •LESSON PLANS •GAME BOARDS •PICTURE CARDS and more Simply copy, cut, and use. Use this great package for1st through 5th graders. Perfect for second language learners! Common Core Language Standards Knowledge of Language Compare formal and informal uses of English. Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written standard English. Differentiate between contexts that call for formal English. Compare and contrast the varieties of English. – See more at: http://www.buysellteach.com/Product-Detail/936/formal-and-informal-language#sthash.DG9TLmVJ.dpuf
Formal and Informal Language This 23-page packet contains everything you need to teach the differences between formal and informal language to your elementary students. The first thing students need to be able to do is to identify that there are two kinds of language. Next, the students must be able to determine the oral language used in each situation. Finally, students should be able to produce the formal language required by writing. •WORD WALL CARDS •LESSON PLANS •GAME BOARDS •PICTURE CARDS and more Simply copy, cut, and use. Use this great package for1st through 5th graders. Perfect for second language learners! Common Core Language Standards Knowledge of Language Compare formal and informal uses of English. Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written standard English. Differentiate between contexts that call for formal English. Compare and contrast the varieties of English. – See more at: http://www.buysellteach.com/Product-Detail/936/formal-and-informal-language#sthash.DG9TLmVJ.dpuf
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Formal and Informal Language
This 23-page packet contains everything you need to teach the differences between formal and informal language to your elementary students. The first thing students need to be able to do is to identify that there are two kinds of language. Next, the students must be able to determine the oral language used in each situation. Finally, students should be able to produce the formal language required by writing.
•WORD WALL CARDS
•LESSON PLANS
•GAME BOARDS
•PICTURE CARDS
and more
Simply copy, cut, and use.
Use this great package for1st through 5th graders. Perfect for second language learners!
Common Core Language Standards
Knowledge of Language
Compare formal and informal uses of English. Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written standard English. Differentiate between contexts that call for formal English. Compare and contrast the varieties of English.
2.L.3
3.L.3
4.L.3
5.L.3
– See more at: http://www.buysellteach.com/Product-Detail/936/formal-and-informal-language#sthash.DG9TLmVJ.dpuf
Grade Level(s): 2, 3, 4, 5
Product Type: Digital
Product Usability: New
Product Status: Active
Number Of Pages: 23
Description:
Formal and Informal Language
This 23-page packet contains everything you need to teach the differences between formal and informal language to your elementary students. The first thing students need to be able to do is to identify that there are two kinds of language. Next, the students must be able to determine the oral language used in each situation. Finally, students should be able to produce the formal language required by writing.
•WORD WALL CARDS
•LESSON PLANS
•GAME BOARDS
•PICTURE CARDS
and more
Simply copy, cut, and use.
Use this great package for1st through 5th graders. Perfect for second language learners!
Common Core Language Standards
Knowledge of Language
Compare formal and informal uses of English. Recognize and observe differences between the conventions of spoken and written standard English. Differentiate between contexts that call for formal English. Compare and contrast the varieties of English.
2.L.3
3.L.3
4.L.3
5.L.3
– See more at: http://www.buysellteach.com/Product-Detail/936/formal-and-informal-language#sthash.DG9TLmVJ.dpuf
Formal and Informal Language
This 23-page packet contains everything you need to teach the differences between formal and informal language to your elementary students. The first thing students need to be able to do is to identify that there are two kinds of language. Next, the students must be able to determine the oral language used in each situation. Finally, students should be able to produce the formal language required by writing.
•WORD WALL CARDS
•LESSON PLANS
•GAME BOARDS
•PICTURE CARDS
and more
Simply copy, cut, and use.
Use this great package for1st through 5th graders. Perfect for second language learners! Common Core Language Standards Knowledge of Language Compare formal and informal uses of English.
Irregular Past Tense Verb Game Irregular Past Tense Verb Game- English Grammar and Vocabulary Unit Plan is filled with teaching ideas, activities and games to practice using irregular past tense verbs. Irregular Past Tense Verbs will help your students practice their English grammar and build vocabulary through play. This 33-page English grammar lesson plan, activities and game unit is full of grammar activities, resources, reproducible black lines, teaching ideas, and lesson plan ideas. Students play these grammar games and naturally transfer skills they learn in class! This package includes 6 Games: Fishing For the Past! Concentration! Slap It! Weighty Words! They Don’t End in ‘ed’! Make it in the Past! This grammar/vocabulary game package includes 6 games and the printable black line masters to play them: Game Board Game Cards Word Cards Just copy, cut and play! – See more at: http://www.buysellteach.com/Product-Detail/452/irregular-past-tense-verb-game-grammar-and-vocabulary-unit-plan#sthash.uTMUSSVj.dpuf
Irregular Past Tense Verb Game Irregular Past Tense Verb Game- English Grammar and Vocabulary Unit Plan is filled with teaching ideas, activities and games to practice using irregular past tense verbs. Irregular Past Tense Verbs will help your students practice their English grammar and build vocabulary through play.
This 33-page English grammar lesson plan, activities and game unit is full of grammar activities, resources, reproducible black lines, teaching ideas, and lesson plan ideas. Students play these grammar games and naturally transfer skills they learn in class!
This package includes 6 Games:
Fishing For the Past!
Concentration! Slap It!
Weighty Words!
They Don’t End in ‘ed’!
Make it in the Past!
This grammar/vocabulary game package includes 6 games and the printable black line masters to play them: Game Board Game Cards Word Cards Just copy, cut and play!
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For a limited time it is $10.99 from Educents which is about 80% off!
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