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Research Based Instruction for English Learners
Stages of Lesson
Active Participation
Plans for all students
actively saying or
doing something in
response to
instruction
Language Support
Provides explicit
instruction for students’
social and academic
oral and written
communication
Structured Student
Interactions
Structures time for
students to talk and
work together to
complete a task
Notes
Content Objective(Objective supports CCSS)

Identify what students should know and be
able to do
Language Objective

Identify what language skills students should
know and be able to do to successfully
participate in the lesson
(Language objective supports students’
language development)
Purpose for Learning
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Stated clearly and simply
Shared orally and/or in writing
Tied to the content and language objectives
Prior knowledge

Activate previously learned content and
language concepts
Background knowledge


Provide concepts and experiences needed to
learn and apply the content objectives
Provide concepts and experiences needed to
learn and apply the language objectives
English language modeled in context

Model and implement strategies/
activities/tasks in context with the content
area lesson that fit the students’ learning
needs
Structured Student Collaboration

Structure student interaction in a variety of
grouping strategies
Checking for Understanding

Use informal and formal methods to assess
acquisition of content and language objectives
throughout the lesson
Closure

Determine students’ proficiency of lesson
objective
NOT TO BE USED FOR TEACHER EVALUATION
EGUSD Learning Support Services
Observer:
School:
Date:
Grade level:
Subject:
Teacher/Room #:_______________________________
Research Based Instruction for English Learners
NOT TO BE USED FOR TEACHER EVALUATION
EGUSD Learning Support Services