Ms. Wright
Intermediate ESL
15-16 School year
Quarter 1
Unit
Focus on Reading
Vocabulary
1
Learn reading
strategies


Context clues
Multiple meaning
words
2
Analyze plot, main
idea and details
Analyze events and
ideas

Relate words: word
categories
Synonyms,
antonyms

Language and
Grammar
 Express ideas and
feelings
 Ask and answer
questions
 Give commands
 Statements
 Questions
 commands
 Express needs
and wants
 Give information
 Elaborate
 Nouns
 Complete
sentences
 Subject/verb
agreement
Writing
Paragraph: Topic and
details, claims and
support, main idea
and details
Sequence paragraph
Explanatory
paragraphs
Quarter 2
Unit Focus on reading
3
Determine
viewpoints
4
Vocabulary
 Word parts:
compound
words, base
words, suffixes
Elements of Fiction: 
plot, character,
setting
Word parts:
base words,
prefixes, Latin
and Greek
roots
Language and Grammar
 Engages in
conversations
 Give advice
 Subject pronouns
 Pronoun usage
 Helping verbs
 Describe people and
places
 Make comparisons
 Describe and even or
experience
 Adjectives
 Adverbs
 Participles
Writing
Friendly letter
Personal
narrative
Short story
Ms. Wright
Intermediate ESL
15-16 School year
Quarter 3
Unit Focus on reading
5
Text structure:
sequence, main
idea and details
Vocabulary
 Word parts:
prefixes,
suffixes
6

Text structure:
cause and effect
Context clues:
definitions,
restatements,
synonym,
antonym,
example
Language and grammar
 Ask for and give
information
 Engage in discussion
 Define and explain
 Present and past
tense verbs
 Verb forms: be and
have
 Summarize
 Make comparisons
 Express opinions
 Subject and predicate
nouns
 Subject and predicate
pronouns
 Reflexive and
intensive pronouns
Writing
Information
report
Summary
paragraph
Cause-and-effect
essay
Quarter 4
Unit Focus on reading
7
Analyze argument
8
Text features
Vocabulary
 Context clues:
multiplemeaning
words
 Jargon

Figurative
language:
metaphors,
idioms, similes
Language and grammar
 Describe
 Define and explain
 Persuade
 Possessive nouns
 Possessive adjectives
and pronouns
propositions and
propositional phrases
 Use appropriate
language
 Retell a story
 Complete sentences
 Compound and
complex sentences
Writing
Speech
Persuasive
business letter
Editorial
Literary response
Ms. Wright
Intermediate ESL
15-16 School year