Aligning ELL Proficiency Standards 3

Having the insight as a former student and a present educator, Linda Christensen wrote about her views on the way English is taught to students in her essay“Teaching Standard English: Whose Standard?” Christensen

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking

6. In this class we ask you to use American Standard English with modern conventional grammar, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary. There are other contexts in which it's important to use the same kind of formal English. What are the advantages of using this kind of formal English instead of writing or speaking casually with slang and informal grammar?

Lesson plan activities include examining various types of nonfiction prose; analyzing main idea and citing evidence; writing and reading response to an excerpt.

W.1:The student will be able to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience; apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style; write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and

Segments individual sounds in 2- and 3-phoneme, one-syllable words (e.g., run: /r/ /u/ /n/; feet: /f/ /ee/ /t/).

Literary novels use simple text to uncover everything to the reader. In a novel, the reader is faced with having to interpret the characters he/she is

5. Setting (including: time span of the story, time period in which the story is set, and place[s] in which the story is set)

Since we were little,  we have been  taught how to write in a “standard” form. In “standard” form we were told not to use any personal experience and or any kind of opinion. Standard written English refers to the preferred form of English which is written according to prescriptive authorities, in relation to writing rules means it needs to be professional and acceptance to the academic world, associated with publishing houses and schools. If we do use any of these, the writing won’t be standard any more, it will look very unprofessional and informal. We are introduced to standard form of writing in high school because those are some of  the most

This workshop was building on telling a story. Throughout the school year, the class had been discussing how to tell a story, what to include in a story and how to put the pages together to produce a book. I have included the writer’s workshop assignment page and two samples of books that were written at the conclusion of this observation essay.

Students should be able to write a simple paragraph using coordinated conjunctions, and to understand how to use coordinated conjunctions correctly. To engage and motivate students to for further language learning experiences. To offer students as many examples of authentic language and STT.

however, not only describes storytelling but also explains how a story can be used and how

This curriculum uses a fun approach to basic conversational English, stressing communication in a variety of situations, by introducing easy to remember vocabulary, and grammatical structures that are easy to understand and follow, in preparation for basic English writing. This is a personal curriculum, as we will be approaching the learner’s and the world

Objective: by the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to identify and pronounce the 5 vowels and the first 10 consonants.

Our aim not only for us as future teachers, but also for current ones, is to give our students the tools for them to learn to communicate effectively in most contexts (formal, informal, writing and oral) in English (or in any other case in another language). Also we must guide them to be critical thinkers and to have curious minds