Sample Lesson Plan – Secondary Level

Lesson Plan – DAY #4

PLANNING PHASE
Performance/ Task-based Objectives:

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   Students will be able to use English vocabulary and scientific terminology to describe the weather.
   
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   Students will be able to complete a cloze activity based on information gathered by watching and listening to a recorded segment of an actual televised weather report.
   

Lesson Outline:
National TESOL Standards:

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  Goal 1, Standards 1, 2
  
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  Goal 2, Standards 1, 2
  
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  Goal 3, Standards 1, 2
  

TEACHING PHASE
(1) Preparation
Warm-up Activity: The teacher starts off the class by reviewing the notes that were placed on the ‘parking lot’ at the end of the previous class. She then reviews the agenda for today’s lesson on Weather.
Prior knowledge: Students have prior knowledge of basic weather vocabulary. This lesson assumes that the students have already had some prior instructional practice in this area.
Language Goals: (How is instruction scaffolded/ differentiated for a wide array of ELLs?)
This lesson is scaffolded for lower level ELLs by reviewing weather vocabulary, using pictures and words, prior to the weather report activity. Each of the cloze activities is differentiated for each of the ELL levels (see Appendix A). Also, Level 1 students are allowed to use the illustrated vocabulary terms as a word bank while completing their modified cloze activity.
(2) Presentation

Activities

Multilevel activities:
The teacher again pulls up the hypermedia presentation entitled ‘Seasons.’ This time she reviews the ‘Weather’ slides for each season with the class. Each slide contains picture icons from the Weather Channel website and depicts a different weather condition. The English vocabulary word is included with each picture. The teacher reviews the terminology with the class, most of which is review for higher level ELLs. She also asks volunteers to describe some of the more difficult terms for the rest of the class.
Students watch and listen to a video recording twice (may be a recorded television segment on a VHS or saved video clip from the Internet) of a weather report and forecast. Following the recording, students individually complete one of the 3 different cloze activities based on their literacy and oral language proficiency level. See Appendix A (pages A-1 thru A-3) for sample differentiated cloze activities for this lesson and explanations for each.
Four Skills:

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  Listening: Students watch and listen to the video segment(s).
  
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  Speaking: Student volunteers describe weather terminology during the vocabulary review with the hypermedia slides.
  
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  Reading: Students read the cloze activity and associated materials (see App. A).
  
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  Writing: Students write in the missing words in the cloze activity.