SSK Unit 4.2 Planning Guide
SSK Unit 4.2 Planning Guide
SSK Unit 4.2 Planning Guide
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Instructional Strategies / ActivitiesHISD PLANNING GUIDEEnglish Language Arts Grade 8SUMMER SCHOOLInstructional Accommodations for Diverse LearnersCues, Questions, and Advanced OrganizersGraphic Organizers-The Paragraph OverhaulThis strategy can be used to help ELLs revise their writing and the writing of others. It allows students to break downeach paragraph in order to focus on one section at a time. Pair students and have students exchange papers. Each student will complete Paragraph Overhaul chart as a guide.The Paragraph OverhaulWrite each individual sentence in the paragraph on the lines.1._______________________________________2._______________________________________3._______________________________________ Revise your partner’s original sentences by combining sentences. You may combine twosentences into one compound sentence or one complex sentence. Return the revised copy to your partner. Read your partner’s revisions. Copy your new sentences into a paragraph.For a Paragraph Overhaul template, see Resources.Instructional Accommodations for Diverse LearnersSetting Expectations and Providing FeedbackWall Charts For ELLs, it is important to provide models and writing reminders in the form of Wall Charts; these charts can behelpful in jumpstarting and improving writing. Create small Wall Charts to put up around the room. Students can help inthe creation of these charts.Utilixe the following types: Transition words and phrases Good openings Good conclusions Examples of elaborated or detailed sentences descriptive phrases, etc.ResourcesAdopted Instructional Materials• Best Practices Toolkit. Illinois: HoltMcDougal, 2010. Context Clues p. E16-E18.• Laying the Foundation a Resourceand <strong>Planning</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> for Pre-APGrade 8. Texas: AdvancedPlacement Strategies, Inc, 2004.• Laying the Foundation: Argumentand Persuasion: Understanding theAppeals. Texas: AdvancedPlacement Strategies, Inc, 2004.• Literature Grade 8. Illinois: HoltMcDougal, 2010.Persuasive Text: Zoos Connect Us to the NaturalWorld p. 994 Position on Dodgeball inPhysical Education p. 1004 The Weak Shall Inherit the Gymp. 1008Supporting Resources• About Tone• Common Context Clues• ELA Best Practices MS• Evaluation Chart• “I Have a Metaphor”• Observation and Inference Chart• Peer Review• Paragraph Overhaul• SOAPS Tone Method• Speech Analysis Chart• Transition Chart• Venn DiagramProfessional Texts• Miller, Carol Rawlings. StrangeBedfellows. New Hampshire:Heinemann, 2008.• Seidlitz, John. Navigating theELPS. San Clemente, California:Seidlitz Education Center, 2008.Online Resources• American Rhetoric Online SpeechBank(Website with a bank of manyfamous American speeches)• Persuasive Techniques WebQuest(Web Quest that teaches studentpersuasive techniques throughmedia literacy)• Texas Student AssessmentAccommodations information(Website with information on - English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) - Literacy Leads the Way Best Practices - Aligned to Upcoming State Readiness Standard- State Process Standard R - State Readiness Standard S - State Supporting Standard© Houston ISD Curriculum2013 – 2014Page 10 of 11
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