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ESL Ideas
(B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional)
(B)
Using a list provided by the teacher, students highlight transitional
words in a newspaper article or other writing.
(I, T)
Students
identify orally or in writing the beginning, middle, and end of a
story they have read or written.
(I, T) Students use pictures to create a story sequence of events.
Students can draw the pictures or the teacher can cut out pictures and
have the students place the pictures in order.
(I, T) Students list the steps in a procedure or science
demonstration. Transitional students can also make sentences or
paragraphs about the procedure or demonstration.
(I, T) Students locate comic strips (preferably from the Sunday paper)
and cut them into separate frames. Students exchange groups of comic
strip frames and place them in the correct sequential order. Students
then read the newly sequenced comic strip to the class to check for
correct order.
Storyboard
(B, I) Activity is a graphic organizer
the student recalls major events of a story and illustrates the
events in the squares provided
Write Design: Sequence Graphic Organizers
(B, I, T) Activities are sequencing
graphic organizers for the following: ranking, continuum scale,
cycle, bridging snapshots, series of events, and problem/solution
outline
Time-Order Chart
(B, I, T) Activity is a time-order
graphic organizer the student writes events in boxes and details on
the branching lines
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Common
News Stories
(I, T) Three news stories from
Bangkok Post that follow familiar sequence of events: storms,
the environment, and disputes
ESL Reading Rubric
(B, I, T) Rubric is divided into four
ESL level categories that help determine reading abilities
ESL: Reading
(B, I, T) Site contains links to
simplified online reading collections and self-checking quizzes
5 Minute English
(B, I, T) Site contains links to
simplified online reading collections and self-checking quizzes
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Language Arts