5 E's Lesson Components: ELA English Language Learners Day 1 Name: Location/Context: Mentor Teacher: Junior high with students in 4 rows Date: Rotation Day: of 3-5 students. There is much Subject/Grade Level: English Language Learners diversity among students. This is the Room: 15 English Language Learners’ stream, Concept: Conversation circles can help amplify students’ verbal, conversation where many students have been in skills and give them the tools they need to express comparisons and contrasts the country for around 1 year or less between two different topics with a primary language other than Program of Studies Knowledge Outcome: UNABLE TO LOCATE English. Safety Consideration: Previous Knowledge: No safety concerns identified Students explored comparisons through a writing assignment the week before. They also engaged in If virtual: Lesson can be performed online via zoom, with the teacher taking over conversation circles around the topic demonstrations of social media a few days earlier. If technology does not work: Use whiteboard for majority of visuals I. Engagement/Explanation: (10 minutes) (Jamboard activity on similarities and differences) Go over different sentence stems for comparisons o COMPARE _______ and ___________ both show ________________ __________ and _____________ are similar because ____________________________________________ o CONTRAST Compared to _______, I think this is more _______ Learning Materials: Electronic Materials: Powerpoint presentation link to guide lesson (Cao, 2022) This is different because ______________ This is less ____________ than __________________ __________ is___________, but ____________ is _______________ _________ and ____________ are different because _______________. Introduce the topic: o It could be about describing different foods they like amongst each other o Sports – basketball vs. soccer o Weather – sunny and rainy weather o Season – Winter and Spring o Foods – Apples and Oranges o Technology – Phone vs. Computer o Country – Canada vs. Another country II. Exploration: (20-40 minutes) Break students off into groups 5-6 pre-assigned Give them a huge piece of paper to record their ideas down Show them how to draw a graph so they can place down differences and similarities between both topics Walk amongst groups III. Evaluation (10-20 minutes) Get students to present their ideas to the entire class one-by-one Try to encourage every student to talk while they are up there Perhaps record their ideas down on paper IV. Extension If there is time left, maybe do a class comparison together on a topic Considerations: Students may not have the vocabulary for certain key words Remind them of the exercise they performed last week Electronic Materials: Other resources for conversation circles: o https://study.com/academy/lesson/esl-compare-contrast-essaytopics.html o https://www.learnalberta.ca/content/eslapb/understanding_the_ acquisition.html o chromeextension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/viewer.html?pd furl=https%3A%2F%2Feducation.alberta.ca%2Fmedia%2F563 809%2Fesl-guide-to-implementation-k9.pdf&clen=1824881&chunk=true Reflection: Quite fun Leaned on mentor teacher quite a bit to help with classroom management
