EAL Lesson Plan Template

Pace TESOL

Author: Katherine Ellingsen Setting: Self-contained ENL class

Age: Third grade
Unit (Central Native American culture
Focus):

Essential What are some similarities between Native American culture and American
Question/Aim: culture?

Duration: 45 minutes
Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.5
Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate
information relevant to a given topic efficiently.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring
explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

Objectives: Content Students will learn about Native American history and culture.
Objective(s)

Functional SWBAT listen to the story read aloud. They will then discuss
(Academic and identify cultural similarities by speaking in small groups
language) using two handouts. Afterwards, the students will report their
Objective(s) findings back to the whole class in review.

Language SWBAT analogize between both cultures by using sentences

Objectives: such as “___ is/are like ____.” SWBAT recognize and use
vocabulary associated with Native American culture (i.e.
moccasins, wampum, longhouse, deerskin, Naho, etc).

Expected Students will correctly utilize new vocabulary associated with Native
Evidence of American culture in their reports back to the class.
Learning
(Assessments)

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 EAL Lesson Plan Template
Pace TESOL

Procedures 1. Teacher will review Native American vocabulary and key words with the
using Gradual class.
Release of 2. Teacher will read “If You Lived with the Iroquois,” by E. Levine, asking the
Responsibility students to listen for the key words.
3. The teacher models comparative phrases such as “A wampum is like a
bracelet.”
4. Teaching will introduce the graphic organizer, and model the first
question and answer. The second will be done by the teacher and class,
together.
5. Students will engage in small group work using handouts with pictures
and vocabulary based on the story. They will identify corresponding
items/customs between the two cultures. Half of the groups will be given
one worksheet, and half will be given a second.
6. Students will report their answers to the class (as the teacher calls on
each group). They will demonstrate their understanding of the new
material by verbalizing the key words and/or pairing them accordingly
with words describing their own culture.

Homework:
Resources: Children’s book: “If You Lived with the Iroquois,” by E. Levine, worksheet,
pencils, erasers

Differentiation Graphic Organizer

strategies:

Anticipated Problems: Solutions:

Issues:
Students will not be able to find the Teacher will be walking around during group
parallels between the two cultures work, trouble-shooting this issue as the
students complete their worksheets.