English I Through ESOL - The School District of Palm Beach County
English I Through ESOL - The School District of Palm Beach County
English I Through ESOL - The School District of Palm Beach County
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Beginning- Writing Activities<br />
Language Experience Story<br />
Objective: Use student-created writing as a text as a model for individual student writings, for<br />
rereading or other written activities, including Story Grammars, RAFT, and Spool Writing.<br />
Procedure: Language Experience instruction involves asking students to talk about some item<br />
<strong>of</strong> relevance to the class. You may use information from Listening Activity “Interview” or<br />
information learned in other unit activities. Individual team members and teams take turns<br />
<strong>of</strong>fering sentences to be added to the text. You write individual contributions on the board,<br />
including non-standard forms or word order. <strong>The</strong>n ask teams to correct or change the text to<br />
standard <strong>English</strong> grammar and syntax and to decide on an organizational format. Assist teams<br />
in making necessary adjustments. After the text is corrected, students copy it in their notebooks,<br />
or you can type and distribute it.<br />
Indirect Speech<br />
Objective: Write a familiar dialog in paragraph form, using indirect or reported speech.<br />
Procedure: Use the dialog in this lesson written for Presenting Activity “Dialog”. After teams<br />
have completed presenting their dialogs (see Presenting Activities), have each group write the<br />
dialog in a paragraph format using indirect speech. Example:<br />
COLUMBUS: “I need money to buy ships to sail west.”<br />
Columbus asked the queen for some money to sail to the west.<br />
Teams use one piece <strong>of</strong> paper and one pencil only. Each member takes a turn writing a line <strong>of</strong><br />
the dialog. Other team members can <strong>of</strong>fer help, but they cannot write it for the individual whose<br />
turn it is to write. Collect and grade. Each member <strong>of</strong> the team gets the same grade.<br />
Romeo and Juliet: Lesson 5 Indirect Speech Activity: Use the dialog in this lesson written<br />
for Presenting Activity “Dialog”.<br />
Example:<br />
Paris to Romeo: Stop talking nonsense. I am arresting you as an outlaw here!<br />
Paris told Romeo to stop talking nonsense and that he was arresting him as an outlaw there!<br />
<strong>English</strong> I <strong>Through</strong> <strong>ESOL</strong>: Romeo and Juliet<br />
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