EAL Lesson Plan Template

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Author: Katherine Ellingsen Setting: Standalone ENL class

Age: Third Grade
Targeted Expanding
Proficiency
Level(s):

Unit (Central Electricity

Focus): Central Focus: Brainstorming, and organizing, facts about electricity

Essential Essential Question: What do we already know about electricity?

Question/Aim: Aim: To develop a sense of the knowledge students already possess about the
content. To create questions that can later be applied to our note-taking.

Duration: 45 minutes Date: 1

ENL Standards: Common Core Anchor Standard (SL.1): Prepare for and participate effectively
in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on
others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Common Core Grade 3 Standard (SL.3.1): Engage effectively in a range of

collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups and teacher led) with diverse
partners on grade 3 topics and
texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

Content CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.1.b
Standards: Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful
ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and
texts under discussion).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.4
Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate
facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.3
Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate
elaboration and detail.

Objectives: Content Brainstorm and list facts about electricity to establish

Objective(s) background knowledge.
Students will be able to use vocabulary related to the content.

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Functional SWBAT use background knowledge to create a framework for

(Academic learning new information.
language) SWBAT facts about electricity to a circle map to create a list of
Objective(s) subtopics to elaborate upon.
with SWBAT to produce research questions for further
Modalities investigation

Language Identify and add facts to a circle map to organize background

Objectives: knowledge about electricity.

Targeted Brick:
Vocabulary / Background knowledge
Phrases: Electricity
“Brick” Circle Map
words Static Electricity
“Mortar”
words Mortar:
Organizing; classifying information based on “like” topic
Distinguishing between fact and fiction

Method(s)/ Circle Map

Strategies

Expected Students organize groups of information on the map.

Evidence of Students reiterate, verbally, why this is important to good writing skills.
Learning
(Assessable
Product)

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Procedures • Teacher will read aloud the content and language objectives
using Gradual on the white board with the students.
Release of • Teacher will introduce the concept of background
Responsibility knowledge. Students will be asked to describe their concept
[Model of what they already know, and be given examples. (i.e.
Guided Practice “Remember when I asked you if you knew anything about
Independent electricity, and you answered that you had heard of static
Work electricity?”)
Assessable • Teacher will present the students with a circle map, and
product] explain how it works in relation to background knowledge.
Teacher will place especial emphasis on organization, and
ask students if they understand the task.
• Teacher will ask students to think briefly about what they
already know about electricity.
• Teacher will then call on students individually, and write
down students’ facts about electricity on post-its. Teacher
will model how to organize their background knowledge
about electricity into categories on the circle map, by placing
“like things” together.
• Teacher will encourage students to elaborate on each other’s
thoughts.
• Teacher will ask students to assist in placing the post its on
the circle map once it is clear they understand how to group
them Guiding them toward the correct placement, teacher
will ask students to share will their peers why they placed
their facts as they did.
• Teacher will allow students to write down their own ideas on
post its, and add them to the map on their own.
• Teacher will encourage students to ask research questions
about the information they already know. The questions will
be placed outside the circle and be used for note-taking in the
next lesson.
• Teacher will assess students’ understanding of the purpose of
this activity. Teacher will ask students to explain why a circle
map is a tool toward better writing practices, as well as
review the objectives.
Homework: Find out one new fact about electricity
Resources / White board, dry erase markers, paper, post its, markers
Materials:

Differentiation Using a visual representation of information to assist student who struggles with
strategies:

Problems: Solutions:

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Anticipated Students will struggle to Teacher will prompt students will her
Issues: brainstorm ideas about own ideas.
electricity.

Students will not conceptualize Teacher will ask students to think about the
the point of organizing importance of organization when writing, and
information using a circle map. then illustrate that the groups of information on
the map look like paragraphs.