ESL Instructional Strategies Units Prepared by Dr. Lisa Pray's ESOL Instructional Strategies Course Students College of Education and Human Services Utah State University Students in the ESOL instructional strategies class were asked to adapt K-12 lesson plans used in mainstream classrooms to meet the needs of students who speak English as a second language. The modifications include providing: Language objectives aligned with content objectives, Instructional adaptations for students at the pre-production/early production, intermediate and fluent levels of English language proficiency, Specific ESL strategies, cognitive, and metacognitive strategies to be used in the classroom, Grouping strategies to provide interaction opportunities for ESL students Assessment adaptations for students at the pre-production/early production, intermediate and fluent levels of English language proficiency Lesson Title Grade Level(s) Author 4th Grade Reading Lesson Plan 4th Brooke Naylor 4th Grade Writing Lesson Plan 4th Brooke Naylor Soil Profile 4th Candace McDonald Las Christmas: Favorite Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories 8th Carly Bleadorn “Holes” Activity 5th Carol DeFriez Lesson Plan #3- Reading 2nd Cassie Frew Inverse Operations (Multiply and Divide) 4th Chandra Martz Moon Phases 6th Cynthia Russell Vocabulary Lesson 9th Debra Brough Content Lesson Plan - History 5th Donnell Olsen Butterfly Life Cycle K Elaine Johnson Writing (Animals) lesson plan Pre-K Hollie Allen 3rd Grade Geography Writing 3rd Jeanette Griffith Maya Angelou’s Poetry 10th Jeff Knight Student Mad Libs 7-8th Jessica Anderson Family K Jessica Zilles Writing Sentences Spanish I, II, or III Jonathan Marchant Rural, suburban, and urban communities 2nd Josalyn Shaw Stevens Library Media- Poetry 5th Julia Smith Science- Parts of a Tree 2nd Julia Smith Isaac Newton's 3rd Law of Motion 9th Katie Capener Hall Classifying (living vs. non-living) 3rd Katie Cox Descriptive Writing 4th Kelly Haramoto Prepositions 7th Kim Gleason Textiles 11-12th Mary Gedge Planets of the Solar System 3rd Mary Hoyt Compare maps to see the effects of history on the present 3rd Megan Steadman Pioneer Hardships & Causes 3rd Megan Steadman Mexican Cessation 8th Melinda Thatcher Rhyming Words K Melissa Giddings Write Right Back: (Expectations for e-mail replies) 3rd Melissa Norman Día de los muertos Adults Mike Olsen Child Development - Isolated Children Case Studies 9-12th Nevaloni Pulotu Statistics - Mean, Median, Mode 5th Nicole Welch How Geography Influences Culture 8th Stasha Jameson Debating - School Uniforms 5th Stephanie Taylor The Works of Tomas Rivera 11th Steve Weller Poem Collages 7th Tammy Lambert Use fractions to communicate and compare parts of the whole 3rd Valerie Christensen Last modified 28 January 2008