This is a chart used to record the elements of culture found within the various versions of Cinderella, or any other text. I used this for my second grade students during our Culture Unit/How We Express Ourselves PYP Unit.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment
This is a remix of https://goopennc.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/192 by Martha Levey and Toni Luther. This is a multi-day unit on Cinderella and the many versions of the fairy tale. Students will listen to/read four versions of Cinderella identifying elements of culture and then compare/contrast two in groups. Then students will perform a reader's theater of one Cinderella story. The whole class will remix the Cinderella story to write a modern-day version that takes into account their own cultures.
Material Type: Lecture Notes, Lesson, Reading
Students will collaborate together to choose, design, plan, and implement groups roles to determine what materials are needed to complete the project. The teacher observe as student groups complete projects during the school day to ensure participation is achieved in an equitable manner. Students will select and research a specific folktale from the unit Upon completing the group project, students may research a folktale independently provided the group agrees and their project goals are met.This lesson was developed by Lisa Bruet to fulfill requirements of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Material Type: Formative Assessment, Lesson, Module, Presentation, Reading, Unit of Study
Students will collaborate with a group of students and select a Culture Project to complete together in school. The group will choose, design and plan and implement what the groups roles will be and what materials are needed to complete the project. The teacher should allow the students to work on projects in school so that equal participation is taking place and can be observed. The students may select the countries in the folktale unit to research or one of their own as long as the project goals are met and agreed upon by all members in the group.This lesson was developed by Lisa Bruet as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will build background and show understanding about government elections at the local, state, and national levels in the United States. Students will write, revise, and edit an informational piece to demonstrate mastery of the topic of elections incorporating key academic content vocabulary. Students will create a PPT with a teacher's model to demonstrate understanding and mastery of key content area vocabulary words. Students will complete activities during independent work time or literacy stations. Provides a QR code for students to listen to stories (2 non-fiction and 1 fiction) about elections. After they listen to the stories they choose one of the non-fiction texts to write facts about, find the main idea and key details, and define new words
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Presentation, Vocabulary
Students will gain an understanding of using contractions in speaking and in written text. They will identify word pairs used to make contractions and create contractions appropriately. They will also have a better understanding of how certain grammatical structures, like contractions, contribute to the overall understanding of a text.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Vocabulary
Students will gain an understanding of using contractions in speaking and in written text. They will identify word pairs used to make contractions and create contractions appropriately. They will also have a better understanding of how certain grammatical structures, like contractions, contribute to the overall understanding of a text.
Material Type: Formative Assessment, Self Assessment, Vocabulary
In this lesson, students will understand who we are (as a country) by examining the different foods and customs that represent the different cultures and geographic areas of the country. Students will understand that their families (ancestors) participated in making the country what it is today. Students will examine the diversity within their own class and in other locations throughout the country.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students listen to an excerpt of Poppy by Avi, and describe the characters using details from the text.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This resource supports English language development for English Language Learners. Students can read the classic fable online or as a printable PDF file. Accompanying audio can be used to support comprehension and build fluency.
Material Type: Reading
Students will listen to Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle to learn color and animal names from the text. Students will complete a sentence frame with teacher support/facilitation, then create their own personal story booklet of the text to reinforce concepts taught and learned. Students will engage in activities such as choral reading of the text and practice independently reading the text aloud to a family member at home for additional independent practice.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Presentation, Reading, Vocabulary
I created this activity to help students practice sequence writing and to explain something that happened in the past. Feel free to change to the present tense! This works with elementary students or Newcomers of any age.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment, Homework/Assignment
Scaffold your ELs persuasive letter writing with this outline I created. You can change the prompt and still use the outline help students with structure/organized writing. This is an excellent writing review before ACCESS testing.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment
I created this unit plan using a mixture of my own created materials along with ACCESS prep tools found on the WIDA website: https://wida.wisc.edu/assess/access. All sources are cited in my document. Please email jchamm@wsfcs.k12.nc.us with questions. Thanks!
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment, Homework/Assignment
This is part of a larger unit I created about descriptive/narrative writing. Students use this short sensory reading search as a model to help them think about how they can add sensory details into their own writing.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This writing unit sparks students' interest in writing! Pixton.com can be used to create personal narrative stories, summarize literary books/book reports, to utilize vocabulary, or write about historical figures, and more! My ELs love using this website.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Unit of Study
SHARE THIS WITH CONTENT TEACHERS!!Help your newcomers become more independent in their content classes. These are only a few of the excellent Chromebook extensions you can add for free by browsing through Google Chrome's "Extension Library." This is especially useful for middle and high school newcomers who can navigate difficult content through these scaffolded extensions. Please add comments on other extensions you use!
Material Type: Reference Material
This resource supports English languaeg development for English language learners. This article teaches the proper usage of past progressive tense in English. The article defines the tense, explains the proper sentence structure for use, and gives examples. Students read the article.
Material Type: Reading
A list of tips for content teachers with beginning English learners in their classroom. Added to resource: one additional tip for teachers to consider when working with newcomers in order to promote CRT principle(s).
Material Type: Reference Material
I used the idea of the Virtual Word Wall from the Ready, Set, Coteach team. This blank template is just a Google Slide with a table. You can customize the numbers of rows or column, as well as anything else when you make your own copy. I like consistency for the user experience, in this case, first grade English Learners. So the colors stay the same and the format is the same each week.While mine focus on supporting our new adoption of HMH Into Reading, a virtual word wall can work in any content area, at any age level. It could also be in a World Language setting.
Material Type: Presentation, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Vocabulary
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