HAZLETON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT
DISTRICT UNIT/LESSON PLAN
Teacher Name : Mrs. Valentine
Subject : ESL L.A. Level B
Start Date(s): 9/2/15
Grade Level (s): 8
Building : HEMS
Unit Plan
Unit Title: “Here to Help”
Essential Questions:
How do we interpret things?
Describe the important jobs of community workers and why they are important.
When do we use the words may, might, and could?
How can time be used to tell what may happen?
When do we use the phrases have to and need to?
What are possessive adjectives?
What are cause and effect?
Standards:
CC.1.2.8.J: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word
or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
CC.1.2.8.K: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade level reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range
of strategies and tools.
CC.1.4.8.A: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information clearly.
CC.1.4.8.B: Identify and introduce the topic clearly, including a preview of what is to follow.
CC.1.4.8.C: Develop and analyze the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples; including graphics
and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
CC.1.4.8.D: Organize ideas, concepts, and information into broader categories; use appropriate and varied transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among
ideas and concepts; provide a concluding statement or section; include formatting when useful to aiding comprehension.
CC.1.4.8.F: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage.
CC.1.4.8.T: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new
approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen ‘
writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
CC.1.4.8.U: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to
interact and collaborate with others.
CC.1.5.8.A: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions, on grade level topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CC.1.5.8.G: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English when speaking based on grade 8 level and content.
ELP Standards:
1.4.8.A-C: Write phrases or short sentences using a graphic organizer.
R.8.A.1: Classify visually supported vocabulary in context associated with genres associated with various genres read within a small group.
Summative Unit Assessment :
Summative Assessment Objective
Students will display their understanding of the new academic vocabulary
from each selection within the unit, strategize how to use may, might, could
to tell what may happen in time, comprehend and utilize possessive
adjectives, cause and effect, indentation, paragraphs, supporting details, and
topic sentences in their writing.
Assessment Method (check one)
__X__ Rubric ___ Checklist __X__ Unit Test ____ Group
__X__ Student Self-Assessment
__X__ Other (explain) Students will also be graded on the organization of
their notebooks (PDN’s and notes), and also through their portfolios.
Day
1
Objective (s)
Students will learn about
community workers, how to
interpret a visual image, strategize
how to preview and build
background, use graphic
organizers (Mind Map), and
generate ideas.
Students will listen actively; repeat
spoken language; recite; and tell
what may happen.
2
3
Students will tell what may
happen and use basic vocabulary:
time words.
DOK
LEVEL
Activities / Teaching Strategies
Grouping
DAILY PLAN
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Focus on the strategy used
Critical Thinking
Graphic Organizers
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Critical Thinking
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
WG
SG
I
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Critical Thinking
Technology Tools
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SG
I
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Materials / Resources
Assessment of Objective (s)
Chart of Independent Jobs
InsideNG.com (Family Letter)
Unit 1 Mind Map
Practice Book p. 1
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Mind Map
Language CD 1, Track 1
Transparency 1: Academic
Language Frames
Practice Book p. 2
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Ticket Out the Door
Language CD 1, Track 2
Transparency 2
Vocabulary Routines 4 & 6
Multi-Level Strategies
Practice Book p. 3
Formative- Ticket Out the Door
SummativeStudent Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
SummativeStudent Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Summative-
Literacy Centers
Students will show their
knowledge of time.
Time Quiz
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
SG
I
4
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Student Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Time Quiz
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Time Quiz
SummativeStudent Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Students will strategize how to use
phrases with Have To and Need
To.
5
Students will strategize how to use
possessive pronouns.
6
7
Students will use words about
community workers, listen to a
preview; listen to a selection,
analyze how to recognize the
Realistic Fiction Genre; strategize
how to activate prior knowledge;
preview; set a purpose; interpret
and analyze visuals; identify cause
and effect; tell what may happen;
and use possessive pronouns;
Students will show their
knowledge of Have To and Need
To and possessive pronouns.
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Critical Thinking
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
WG
SG
I
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Critical Thinking
Graphic Organizers
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
WG
SG
I
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Critical Thinking
Graphic Organizers
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
WG
SG
I
Quiz
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
8
Multi-Level Strategies
Practice Book p. 4
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Ticket Out the Door
SummativeStudent Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Multi-Level Strategies
Practice Book p. 4
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Ticket Out the Door
SummativeStudent Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
SG
I
Mind Map
Theme Book: Power Out!
Theme Book CD, Track 1
Cause and Effect Chart
Practice Book p. 6
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Cause and Effect Chart
Quiz
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Quiz
SummativeStudent Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
SummativeStudent Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
9
Students will recognize high
Please Do Nows
WG
Daily Practice, PD 51
Formative- Ticket Out the Door
frequency words and spell highfrequency words.
Students will recognize high
frequency words and spell highfrequency words.
10
11
12
13
14
Students will analyze how to
develop phonemic awareness:
isolate sounds; associate sounds
and spellings: /i/ie, igh; blend
sounds to decode words; and spell
words with /i/, ie, igh.
Students will analyze how to
develop phonemic awareness :
isolate sounds; associate sounds
and spellings:/u/ui, ue; blend
sounds to decode words; and spell
words with /u/ui, ue.
Students will analyze how to
develop phonemic awareness:
isolate sounds; associate sounds
and symbols: /i/ie, igh, /u/ui, ue;
/yoos/ ue; blend sounds to decode
words; and spell words with long
vowels: ie, igh; ui, ue.
Students will analyze how to
associate sounds and spellings:
/i/ie, igh; /u/ui, ue; blend sounds
4
4
4
1
3
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Critical Thinking
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
SG
I
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Critical Thinking
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
WG
SG
I
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Focus in the strategy used
Critical Thinking
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Focus in the strategy used
Critical Thinking
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Focus in the strategy used
Critical Thinking
Graphic Organizers
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Practice Book p. 7
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
SummativeStudent Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Daily Practice, PD 51
Practice Book p. 8
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Ticket Out the Door
SummativeStudent Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
WG
SG
I
WG
SG
I
WG
SG
I
WG
Reading Routine 1
Sound/Spelling Card 34
Transparency 54: Long I (ie, igh)
Practice Book p. 9
Decodable Passage 1: Bright Dogs
p.368
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Ticket Out the Door
Reading Routine 1
Sound/Spelling Card 36
Transparency 55: Long u (ui, ue)
Practice Book p. 10
Decodable Passage 2: Rescue
Teams p. 369
Rescue at the Beach, Practice Book,
p. 163
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Ticket Out the Door
Transparency 56
Language CD 1, Track 3- "Night
Watch"
Multi-Level Strategies
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Ticket out the Door
Fluency Models and Selection
Readings CD, Track 1
Practice Book p. 11
Formative- Ticket Out the Door
SummativeStudent Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
SummativeStudent Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Summative-
Student Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Summative-
to decode words; recognize high
frequency words; strategize how
to set a purpose; use text
features: captions, quotations;
and read with expression and
accuracy.
15
16
Students will tell what may
happen; use content area
vocabulary; identify cause and
effect; and write in response to
literature.
Students will use content-area
vocabulary: indent, paragraph,
supporting details, and topic
sentence; and analyze how to use
paragraphs.
Students will use key vocabulary;
strategize building background;
and respond to visuals.
4
1
1
4
1
3
17
18
19
Students will recognize the
magazine article genre; strategize
how to preview; identify cause
and effect; interpret and analyze
visuals; use key vocabulary;
strategize how to set a purpose;
and analyze how to use
paragraphs and headings.
Students will use key vocabulary;
identify cause and effect;
summarize; and analyze how to
write in response to literature.
1
2
3
4
1
2
4
Focus in the strategy used
Critical Thinking
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Focus in the strategy used
Critical Thinking
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Focus in the strategy used
Critical Thinking
Graphic Organizer
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Focus in the strategy used
Critical Thinking
Think-Pair-Share
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Focus in the strategy used
Critical Thinking
Graphic Organizers
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Focus in the strategy used
Critical Thinking
Graphic Organizers
I
WG
SG
I
WG
SG
I
WG
SG
I
WG
SG
I
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SG
I
Whisper Reading; Partner Reading;
Group Reading; Choral Reading
Concept Map
p.18 #1-7
Transparency 3: Academic
Language Frames
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Student Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Concept Map
Textbook p.18 #1-7
Transparency 3: Academic
Language Frames
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Ticket out the Door
Textbook p. 19 #1-4
Paragraph Diagram
Rubric
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Paragraph Diagram
Vocabulary Cards
Vocabulary Routines 7 & 9
Practice Book p. 12-13
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Vocabulary Cards
Fluency Models and Selection
Readings CD, Track 10
Cause-and Effect Chart
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Academic Language Frames
Transparency 4
Sequential Order Graphic Organizer
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Summative-
Student Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Summative-
Student Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Summative-
Student Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Formative- Cause-and Effect Chart
Summative-
Student Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Formative- Ticket out the Door
Summative-
Student Self - Assessment- How
20
Students will use key vocabulary;
strategize how to set a purpose;
and analyze how to use
paragraphs; and identify cause
and effect.
Students will analyze the student
model of a friendly letter.
1
3
4
4
21
22
23
24
25
Students will understand the
writing process (prewriting),
collect ideas; choose a topic;
organize ideas, and reflect on their
writing.
Students will understand the
writing process (drafting, revising):
draft a friendly letter; evaluate for
clarity of details; add text, and
reflect on their writing.
Students will understand the
writing process (editing and
proofreading); edit for written
conventions, reflect on your
writing, use possessive adjectives,
capitalize proper nouns, use
commas, and spell correctly.
Students will understand the
writing process (publishing and
sharing), reflect on your writing,
read loudly and clearly; read with
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Focus in the strategy used
Critical Thinking
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Focus in the strategy used
Critical Thinking
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Focus in the strategy used
Critical Thinking
Graphic Organizers
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
3
1
3
3
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Focus in the strategy used
Critical Thinking
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Focus in the strategy used
Critical Thinking
Think-Pair-Share
Graphic Organizers
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Please Do Nows
Note-Taking
Guided Practice
Focus in the strategy used
well do I understand this strips.
WG
SG
I
WG
SG
I
Mind Maps
Choral Reading
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Textbook p. 31
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Mind Maps
Summative-
Student Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Formative- Ticket Out the Door
Summative-
Student Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
WG
SG
I
WG
I
Practice Book p. 14
Detail Chart
Multi-Level Strategies
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Detail Chart
Practice Book p. 15 & 16
Multi-Level Strategies
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Ticket Out the Door
Summative-
Student Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Summative-
Student Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
WG
SG
I
WG
I
Practice Book p. 17
Comma & Capital Letter Example
Chart
Proofreading Charts
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Example Chart
InsideNG.com
Writing Rubric in the Assessment
Handbook
Presentation Rubric
Formative- Writing Rubric
Summative-
Student Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Summative- Assessment Rubric
expression; visualize the story;
and listen attentively.
26
27
Students will strategize how to
answer vocabulary and content –
based questions to review for an
assessment.
Students will strategize how to
answer vocabulary and content –
based questions on a unit
assessment.
Critical Thinking
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
3
3
Please Do Nows
Technology Tools
Critical Thinking
Note-Taking
Think-Pair-Share
Review
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Assessment
Technology Tools
Literacy Centers
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
WG
SG
I
I
Student Self - Assessment- Student
Checklist
PowerPoint Presentation
Study Guide
InisdeNG.com
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative- Study Guide
Assessment
Rosetta Stone
Writing Prompts
Reading Logs
Formative-
Summative-
Student Self - Assessment- How
well do I understand this strips.
Summative- Unit Assessment
Student Self - Assessment-