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Meeting the Needs of English Learners in After School Programs
Part 2:Supper and Homework Time
Review
• On a post it, write down two ideas that you remember from the previous training (2 minutes)
• Turn to your “elbow partner” and share what you wrote down.
Objectives
• Learn activities to use with English Leaners to practice English during Supper
• Learn activities to use with English Leaners during Homework Time
• English Learners need to TALK! Provide opportunities for them to practice both informal and academic English in your program
• New Common Core Standards require students to interact in rigorous and complex ways. After School Programs can both prepare and support them for this task
• Supper is a great time to facilitate conversations
Supper
Activity #1: Sentence Stems
“The color of this is (red, shiny, mahogany, burgundy).”
“The texture of this is (bumpy, rough, uneven).”
“The flavor of this is (orange, sweet, acidic, tart).”
You Try!•With a partner chose a topic to discuss with students pertaining to food•Create sentence stems that students can use to facilitate discussion
(5 minutes)
Supper
Supper
Activity #2 Preview Material
•Introduce new vocabulary for the days lesson (flashcards, word lists, etc.)
Supper
Activity #3: Conversation starters
•Choose topics to create structured talking time•Provide sentence stems or cloze writing•Topics should be interesting to students, i.e. movies, music, video games, etc.
Homework Time
• Great time to promote academic language• Challenge yourself and students to only speak
using formal, standardized English during this time
• Choose common slang terms to discuss synonyms and and create thesaurus charts
Activity #4 Thesaurus Chart
WordDefinition:
synonym
synonym
synonym
synonym
synonym
“the bomb”really good
excellent
outstanding
exceptional
superb
tremendous
Homework Time
You Try!•In table teams, pick 3-5 slang words •Create thesaurus charts for each word, listing 5 to 7 synomyns
Homework Time
Situational Appropriateness•We use different types of language depending on our location/relationship– Locations: mall, place of worship, fast food
restaurant, museum, concert, school, home– Relationships: sibling, peer, cousin, teacher,
parent, store employee
Homework Time
Role-playing•Pair students to have a discussion based on different situations•Students write out their discussion, then practice by speaking to one another•Give students various situations so that can see the difference in the type of language to use
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