Are You Ready for LEA (Language Experience Approach)

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3. Lesson Plan:
Are You
Ready for
LEA?
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4. Purpose: The Academic need
What is it? The language experience approach
(LEA) describes the process of the
entire class doing an activity and then
discussing and writing about it in a
teacher‐led process. The completed
sentences can then be used in multiple
follow‐up activities to reinforce
language learning.
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5. Purpose: The Academic need
LEA can be a low‐prep, high‐energy
lesson focused on student interests. It
can be easily adapted to different
subjects and, though it is most often
used with ELL beginners, students at
various degrees of English proficiency
can benefit from its use.
Why we like it
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6. Purpose: The Academic need
The LEA is one of the most widely used
and effective instructional strategies
in ELL classes. Substantial research
has shown its positive impact
on. on writing (Arvin, 1987), reading
comprehension, and student
motivation (Rahayu, 2013). It is often
described as a best practice for ELL
instruction (Howard Research, 2009,
p. 30).
Supporting Research
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7. Purpose: The Academic need
Using this strategy can assist
students as they begin developing the
skills to write informative,
explanatory, and narrative text. In
addition, it supports students in
gaining an understanding of English
conventions. Finally, it supports the
Speaking and Listening Standard of
“building on others' ideas” (Common
Core State Standards Initiative, n.d.c).
Common Core
Connections
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8. Anticipatory Set: Getting the Learners Prepped
● What do you see in
the painting?
● Discuss: What do you
think is happening on
a calm day by the
Mediterranean Sea.
A Calm at a Mediterranean Port by Claude-Joseph Vernet

9. Anticipatory Set: Getting the Learners Prepped
● What do you see in
the painting?
● Discuss: What do you
think is happening on
a stormy day by the
Mediterranean Sea.
A Storm on a Mediterranean Coast by Claude-Joseph Vernet

10. Anticipatory Set: Getting the Learners Prepped
Anticipatory Set
● Watching a short video clip - Classhooks
● Taking a walk around the school - Photostory
● Making a simple musical instrument -
MusicLab
● Doing a simple science experiment - Physics
Lab AR or VideoScience
● Creating a piece of art (we've used clay,
painting, and origami)
● Going on a field trip - Google VR
● Playing a board game
● Creating a puppet or toy
● Preparing a food
● Playing Frisbee, soccer, or basketball outside
● Performing a simple dance
● Performing an art piece - Google Arts &
Culture
● Working in a school garden
● Inventing and performing a short silent play
(pantomime)
● Just about anything else you can think of!

11. Input: Students need information and facts
● Are you Team Calm or Team Stormy?
● Walk to your side of the classroom :-)

12. Input: Students need information and facts
1. In your teams, decide on a character
you want to bring to life.
2. Develop a 5 to 10 second improv skit
about your character.
3. Connect your character’s skit to the
team’s whole scene skit.

13. Input: Students need information and facts
1. Team Calm performs their improv skit.
2. Team Storm performs their improv skit.

14. Input: Students need information and facts
Teacher then
writes down
what is said
Give students time to write or draw notes of what just happened.

15. Modeling: What does the student product look Like?
First, we walked outside.
Second, we walked to the basketball court.
Third, we played basketball
Fourth, Juan bounced the basketball.
Fifth, Julio threw the basketball.
Sixth, we drank water
Seventh, we ran back to the classroom

16. Guided Practice: Teflon/no-stick work for the kids
Class can chorally repeat each sentence after the teacher reads it aloud
Students can copy down the sentences and can add their own illustrations

17. Check for Understanding: Know what they know
sentence scrambleAs a Cloze Sentences mix up Read out loud
Create categoriesIllustrate a sentence Grammar sentence Create their own
The text can subsequently be used for different follow‐up activities, including:

18. Independent Practice: Time to work/create
Sketchnote
Adobe Spark
Podcast
Blabberize
Flipgrid
Clips Stop Animation
Stop Animation
Jingle
Audio‐narrated and
illustrated slideshow
online
Students can
convert their
sentences into
an...

19. Closure: The finalization of the work

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21. AFTERPARTY
30 minutes unstructured follow up
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