People We Know: “Emergency Personnel”
ELL • Newcomer Lesson
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Quick Facts
Subject: People We Know
Type: Newcomer Lesson
Skills: English Word Choice, Varied Sentences, Speaking and Listening
Materials Needed: pencils, crayons/colored pencils/markers (orange, blue, green, black), and document camera or projector for displaying photograph
Printable Resources: Required: picture of emergency personnel (1 copy for display and 1 copy per student), Required: card sort cards (1 set of cards, cut up per pair/group)
CCSS: Speaking & Listening Standards 1,2 & 3 Reading Foundational Standards 1,2,3 & 4
File Type: PDF Document
Lesson Plan Description
This 1 1/2 hour newcomer lesson is broken into 4 manageable 15 minute parts with a bonus activity at the end. In each segment students will be using a picture of emergency personnel as a gateway to complex text and language development. Students will engage in collaborative conversations by posing or responding to specific questions as well as practice paraphrasing information presented visually. Using pictures, student will begin to find evidence for basic questions and label pictures for the purpose of forming sentences that describe the picture both orally and in writing.
- Part 1: Focuses on observations and drawing inferences from a photograph of emergency personnel.
- Part 2: Focuses on picture labeling, identifying nouns and adjectives within a picture.
- Part 3: Focuses on picture labeling, identifying verbs within a picture and creating sentences using the nouns, adjectives, and verbs labeled in the picture.
- Part 4: Focuses on students creating and practicing using sentences about the labeled picture.
- Bonus Activity: Students will create a word sort using cards to describe the picture.
Help your newcomer students develop confidence with English both orally and in writing.