ELL09 Curriculum Map
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August
Content and Essential Skills
How do I form a question?
Providing and obtaining basic information:
NECESSARY VOCABULARY:
•Alphabet
•Interrogative Words
•To Be Verb / pronouns
•#s
•date
When are the primary holidays that the USA celebrates?
What do the vowels sound like in English?
•short sounds
•long sounds
Skills
Question Formation
-Yes/No Questions
-Tag Questions
-Necessary punctuation for questions
-Asking and Answering Introductory Questions
°Use each of the interrogative words to ask questions to obtain basic information.
°State "name, address, phone number, and birth date".
°Spell name
°# groupings for years
°date word order
°days of the week
°ordinal numbers
-Read short bios. and provide 1-3 word/short phrase answers to demonstrate comprehension
Assessment
Student Introduction of a faculty member to the class--providing an answer for each of the interrogatives.
Tape recorded personal introduction responding to pre-recorded prompts.
Date and Holiday match
Reading comprehension test using short bios. (teacher created) based significant historical people in the USA.
Resources
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
What time is it?
NECESSARY VOCABULARY:
•o'clock, after, past, until, midnight, noon, half, quarter
How much is it?
NECESSARY VOCABULARY:
•monetary units
•add, subtract, multiply, divide, percent, tax, discount
•larger #s
What is a Noun?
NECESSARY VOCABULARY:
•School Vocabulary
•Places Vocabulary
•Map Vocabulary
•Titles (for people)
•Verb "to go" / pronouns
What is my Reading Comprehension Level?
Pronunciation of vowels and -tion
Skills
°Utilize and understand different time phrases
°Utilize and understand monetary names and values
°Count back change
°Successfully role play a simple monetary transaction.
-Tell about personal school schedule including ordinal numbers for order of classes, times, teacher names, room numbers and subjects names
-Read a school schedule and answer questions to demonstrate comprehension
-Provide the formal definition of what a noun is.
-Identify the difference between singular and plural nouns
°Identify and successfully use different spelling patterns for pluralizing nouns
°Identify and successfully use irregular plurals
-Identify common and proper nouns
°successfully use formal gender titles
°provide examples of a proper noun for a common noun and vice-versa.
-Orally give directions in the L2 within the town of Brush
-Demonstrate listening comprehension in the L2 by following oral directions using a map of Brush
-Follow written directions using a map
-Write directions from one location to another using a map
-Recite the Pledge of Allegiance from memory
Assessment
-Successfully obtain directions on the phone to get from one location to another (i.e. from the High School to the Public Library)
-Written assessment on NOUNS
°Definition
°Identification
°Singular / Plural
°Common / Proper
-Listening Comprehension: school schedule description, following directions
-Reading Comprehension: school schedule description, following directions
-School Scavenger Hunt
-Teacher Administered Informal Reading Inventories
Resources
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
What "parts" do I need to make a sentence?
NECESSARY VOCABULARY:
•Antonyms/Synonyms Vocabulary
•Halloween Vocabulary
What is a VERB?
Where in North America is ____________?
•states
•capitals
•major physical features
How is the USA different/the same as Canada?
•history
•government
•economy
•major physical features
Skills
-Sentence Formation:
°Use more nouns
°Use pronouns
°Identify and utilize different verbs related to school, Halloween, antonyms/synonyms
provide a definition of a verb
successfully utilize "to be" verb (review)
Identify and use action verbs
°Utilize antonyms to form the comparative and superlative
-Subject/verb agreement: Rule of 'S"
Singular and plural nouns and verbs
Identify and utilize pattern in the L2
-Compare/contrast Canada and the USA:
Reading comprehension w/T-Bar for note taking
Interpreting/analyzing different types of graphs the USA and Canada
Formation and utilization of the comparative and superlative
Assessment
Reading Comprehension of a short story in the present tense about school:
•Identify nouns and verbs
•Answer comprehension ?s
•Identify the 5 W's
Written assessment on nouns and verbs
•Definitions
•Identification of various subcategories of each
•Subject/verb agreement
card match
provide a verb for a noun
provide a noun for a verb
Resources
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
What are the major Food Groups?
NECESSARY VOCABULARY:
•Food vocabulary (nouns and verbs)
•Thanksgiving Vocabulary
When is Thanksgiving? What is Thanksgiving?
•History
•Traditions
When should I use a/an vs. one or the?
•Definite articles
•Indefinite articles
•Count vs. Non-count nouns and article use
What can I do with Publisher?
Skills
-Identify and classify foods in the major food groups from personal daily diets.
-Successfully use Publisher to create a menu in the L2.
-Order and problem solve in a restaurant setting
- Describe traditional Thanksgiving customs including foods
- Identify and demonstrate comprehension of the primary elements of Thanksgiving from an historical and cultural perspective.
Assessment
Reading Comprehension: short story w/ a Thanksgiving theme
•Identify the 5 W's
Successfully complete a restaurant visit (including the resolution of one problem) communicating only in the L2
•Rubric will focus on:
verb use
pronoun use
correct vocabulary use
use of formal titles
Resources
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
What vocabulary and grammatical structures do I need to complete a rental transaction?
•housing vocabulary
•question formation (review & extension)
How is Christmas celebrated in the USA?
•Christmas vocabulary
•Climate vocabulary
Skills
-Obtain and provide necessary information to complete a rental transaction
°ask questions
°provide basic personal information
°read for understanding (contract)
-Identify & describe the rooms of a house
-Identify & describe furniture for each room
-Utilize appropriate verbs in conjunction with rooms of the house
-Understand different types of insurances
-compare/contrast Christmas in the USA & home country
Assessment
-Obtain & complete a rental contract
-Real estate ad
-Construct a floor plan
-Various written, oral, reading, and listening comprehension assessments to demonstrate proficiency with house vocabulary
-Provide a written or oral comparison or contrast of Christmas in the USA and native country
Resources
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
Where do I find nouns and verbs in the sentence?
•Subject
•Predicate
What
How do I show order in my writing?
•Ordinal numbers
•Sequencing
What are the necessary parts of a story?
•plot summary vocabulary
Skills
-Identify the subject and predicate in sentences
°Identify the nouns
singular/plural
common/proper
concrete/abstract
count/noncount
°Identify the verbs
linking
helping
action
-Enhance simple subjects and predicates to create more descriptive sentences
-Sequence simple stories to demonstrate reading comprehension
-Describe an event sequentially orally and in writing
-Provide a plot summary of sitcom episode in the L2
-Provide a plot summary of a short story
Assessment
Successfully complete an exchange/return at Wal-Mart in the L2
•Rubric will focus on:
verb use
formal titles
explanation of problem
use of pronouns
My Day sequential paragraph
Using a pictures only "picture book", the students will tell the story, including all necessary components of a story.
Written and oral plot summaries
Resources
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
What holidays are celebrated in the USA?
Who's in my family?
How do I use the Drawing Tools in Word?
Skills
Students will be able to describe orally and in writing:
•Halloween
•Thanksgiving
•Christmas
•Valentine's Day
•St. Patrick's Day
•Easter
Students will be able to talk, read, and write about the nuclear and extended family units in the target language using:
•family vocabulary
•adjectives
•more subject verb agreement
•Word to create a family tree with descriptive phrases for each entry
Assessment
Holidays timed "ticket" oral
Written assessment
Season/month/holiday match
Family Tree project
Family timed "ticket" oral
My Family listening comprehension with oral recording
Resources
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
What are the body parts?
•feelings
How do I make and complete a doctor's office visit in the L2?
What types of clothing do I need in each season?
•Adjective placement
•colors
Skills
-Correctly identify and label at least 25 body parts
-Describe in writing and orally aches/pains
Assessment
-Role play a doctor's office visit
-Role play a clothing purchase/exchange
-Various written and listening comprehension/identification assessments
Resources
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
Where in the city is ______________?
•place vocabulary review & enrichment
•occupations
•demographic data
PowerPoint presentation on a major city in the USA
How much progress have I made this year?
•Mandatory IPT testing
Skills
Students will utilize place vocabulary to give/follow directions
Students will locate and organize pertinent information regarding a major city in the USA to present orally (with visual reinforcement using PowerPoint) to the class in the L2
Assessment
-IPT oral, reading, & writing
-PowerPoint presentation project
Resources
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
How is (one of 10 major states) different / the same as Colorado?
REVIEW OF:
•Power Point
•city vocabulary
•geography vocabulary
•food vocabulary
•climate vocabulary
•common/proper nouns
•prepositions
•verbs
•#s
Skills
-Demonstrate proficiency in using Power Point
-Demonstrate proficiency in using the present tense of regular and irregular verbs
-Demonstrate proficiency in using major parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions
-Demonstrate proficiency in using school, time, money, place, food, house, family, body, & clothing vocabulary in reading, writing, speech, and listening
Assessment
-Final Exam (encompassing all major thematic units covered in the year)
Listening comprehension
Reading comprehension
Short answer response
Identify & describe
Oral autobiography of student's year
-Final State Power Point presentation
Resources
Optional
