Submit Assignment A: Standards-Based Lesson Outline – Part A, which includes your targeted standards, content and language objectives, and assessment with detailed modifications for ELLs at varying levels of language proficiency.
Assignment A – Standards-Based Lesson Outline
Overview: Students will select a text (either an informational text or a quality multicultural story) and develop content and language objectives along with a series of questions and assessments for ELLs at varying levels of English proficiency (according to WIDA Levels of Language Proficiency).
Content: Students will use a template to write standards, objectives, and assessments and will complete a Tiered Questions Grid. See the “Critical Assignments Guidelines” section in Canvas for required documents.
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Part A (15 pts): Students will identify a grade-appropriate ELA standard(s) that will be used to develop content and language objectives (for all four language domains; listening, speaking, reading, and writing). Students will describe an assessment tool that can be used to determine mastery of lesson objectives. Students will explain how the final product may be modified for students at different levels of language acquisition.
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Part B (10 pts): Students will select a grammar structure in their selected text. To help ELLs understand the meaning behind the grammar and use the target grammar, they will provide, 1) rules of the form, 2) function, which is the meaning and when to use the form, and 3) activities to reinforce the acquisition of the target grammar.
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Part C (5 pts): With the particular content and language objectives in mind, students will generate a series of questions in order to complete a Tiered Questions Grid that demonstrates how to engage students at all levels of English proficiency in higher-order thinking. The grid aligns the stages of language acquisition (according to WIDA, https://www.wida.us/standards/CAN_DOs) with the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Grading: This assignment is worth 30 points, or 30% of your final grade. The rubric on the final pages provides details regarding the breakdown of points across each portion of the assignment. All students will use the template provided and upload the finished product to Canvas. Please refer to the syllabus for the due dates.
Note: The Sample Assignments were written using outdated standards (LAFS). The new Florida Standard is named B.E.S.T.