ACCESS: LESSON PLANS
ACCESS helps teachers differentiate their instruction to meet these different students’
needs. In each of the three lesson parts—Talk and Explore, Look and Read, and Dev.
Language—you can support students. ACCESS can work for many levels of learners
because it targets intermediate and advanced students, and offers Newcomers for
beginnings. ACCESS is also a great resource for students who are transitioning from
ESL programs into mainstream classes but who need sheltered content instruction.
Lesson
Theme 1: New
Beginnings
Lesson 1: The
Reading
Process
Lesson 2:
Lesson 3:
Active
Reading
Lesson 4:
Understanding
Sentences
Big Idea/Theme Key Concept Skill Building Lang. Notes
Every day
Imagery,
people start
symbols
over and
move to new
places.
Dev. Lang.
Grammar
Literature
“Immigrants”
by Pat Mora
“Saying Yes”
by Diana
Chang
“Ellis Island”
by Joseph
Bruchac
“Immigrant”
by Pat Mora
Reading
process:
before,
during, and
after reading;
It helps you
understand
and
remember
what you
read
Pre-write
draft you
paper, revise,
edit, and
proofread;
Then, publish
or present
you paper
Purpose,
Process,
Strategy
Taking
notes
Homophones
Explaining
The verb
be
Organize,
revise,
audience
Writing for
an audience
Multiple
Meanings
Summarizing
Using
Complete
Sentences
Be active
when you
read. Take
notes so
that you can
respond and
connect,
make
judgments,
draw
conclusions,
and
compare
and contrast
A sentence
is a group
of words
that shows
that a
complete
though.
There are
different
parts to
sentences
and
different
kinds of
sentences.
All
Active
reading,
mark,
question,
react,
predict,
visualize,
clarify
Close
Reading
Verb phrases
Responding
Plurals
of
Nouns
That
End in y
“Immigrants”
by Pat Mora
“Saying Yes”
by Diana
Chang
“Ellis Island”
by Joseph
Bruchac
“Fame Is a
Bee” Emily
Dickinson
Subject,
predicate,
phrase,
clause
Combining
sentences
Homophones
Synthesizing
Using
and, or,
and but
Lasting
Echoes by
Joseph
Bruchac
ACCESS: LESSON PLANS
ACCESS helps teachers differentiate their instruction to meet these different students’
needs. In each of the three lesson parts—Talk and Explore, Look and Read, and Dev.
Language—you can support students. ACCESS can work for many levels of learners
because it targets intermediate and advanced students, and offers Newcomers for
beginnings. ACCESS is also a great resource for students who are transitioning from
ESL programs into mainstream classes but who need sheltered content instruction.
Theme 2:
People Like
Us
Lesson 5:
Reading
Paragraphs
Lesson 6:
Ways of
Organizing
Paragraphs
sentences
begin with a
capital letter
and end
with
punctuation
People
everywhere
want to fit
in. They
want to feel
like they
belong and
have
friends.
When they
meet new
people, they
want to be
accepted
and to be
treated well.
To find the
main idea
of a
paragraph,
first look
for the topic
or subject.
Then look
for what the
writer says
about that
topic.
Sometimes
the main
idea will be
stated.
Most of the
time you’ll
need to
infer the
main idea.
Paragraphs
can be
organized in
different
ways. If
you learn
how the
ideas and
details are
organized,
it will help
you
understand
Tone and
Mood,
Style
The House
on Mango
Street by
Sandra
Cisneros
Paragraph,
topic,
subject,
main idea
Drawing
Conclusion
Verb Phrases
Evaluating
Using a
and an
The House
on Mango
Street by
Sandra
Cisneros
Organize,
arrange,
order
Visualizing
Signal
Words:
Cause-Effect
Identifying
Identifying
When to
Use am,
is and
are
“Amigo
Brothers” by
Piri Thomas
The House
on Mango
Street by
Sandra
Cisneros
ACCESS: LESSON PLANS
ACCESS helps teachers differentiate their instruction to meet these different students’
needs. In each of the three lesson parts—Talk and Explore, Look and Read, and Dev.
Language—you can support students. ACCESS can work for many levels of learners
because it targets intermediate and advanced students, and offers Newcomers for
beginnings. ACCESS is also a great resource for students who are transitioning from
ESL programs into mainstream classes but who need sheltered content instruction.
Lesson 7:
Descriptive
Paragraphs
the
paragraphs.
Here are
five
common
ways of
organizing
paragraphs.
A
descriptive
paragraph
describes
someone or
something.
It has a
main idea,
details, and
adjectives.
A descriptive
paragraph
also creates
images that
help readers
see, hear,
feel, smell
or taste
something.