This document outlines an agenda for a workshop on English Language Arts key practices aligned with Common Core State Standards. The workshop includes discussions, activities, and presentations focused on the challenges students and teachers face in meeting high CCSS expectations, as well as approaches to develop instructional practices, tools, and assessments. Participants will work on designing lesson plans integrating CALLA strategies, formative assessments, and a focus on reading, writing, speaking, listening skills and 21st century skills. The goal is to help students acquire academic English and content while developing independence, motivation and awareness of their own learning.

1. Meeting The Double-Edged Challenges:
English Language Arts (ELA) key practices

2. Agenda
• 9:30 – 10 interactive discussion of the following:
Introduction to CCSS
Challenges that students and teachers face
key approaches and methods
significance of learning strategies
• 10 – 11 Listening, speaking, & vocabulary activities
• 11 – 12 speaking, vocabulary, reading, lesson planning activities
• 12- 1 Lunch
• 1-1:40 K-12 program by Ms. Julia lee
• 1:40 – 2:50 reading, grammar, writing activities
• 2:50 – 3:00 wrap up

3. “K-12 CCSS are designed to prepare all
students for success in college, career,
and life”
“The CCSS articulate a vision of what it
means to be a literate person who is
prepared for success in the 21st C.”
Write one idea in relation to each
quote on a post it and stick each on the
relevant flip chart .

4. Career and college-ready
students must adapt
their communication in
relation to audience,
task, purpose, and
discipline

5. •CCSS call for all
students to develop
critical reading skills
necessary for deep
understanding of
complex texts, and
critical writing skills
to write about those
texts.

6. Double- Edged Challenge
Students
•ELLs need support because the curriculum might not
prepare them to meet this high bar
•ELLs in the region do not live in English speaking
countries; FLL not SLL
•ELLs need the appropriate textbooks
•ELLs need appropriate supplementary material

7. Teachers
Need to develop Instructional practices that align with CCSS
Need to develop teaching / learning tools that align with CCSS
Need to develop assessment tools that align with CCSS
Need professional development/ training that enables them to
help students achieve the goal.

8. Workshop learning outcomes
•Create lesson plans according to CALLA
•Design tools to enact the standards in their classes
•Develop tools that would give students ongoing
feedback through formative assessment

9. •Focus on the development of material that promotes
the integrated nature of literacy
•Focus on each of the domains articulated by the
standards (reading, writing, listening, speaking, and
language)
• Focus on “to inform”, “to persuade”, & “to convey
experiences”
• Focus on helping students learn how to transfer
knowledge

10. • Frontloading
• Differentiated Instruction
• Monitor progress
• Infuse 21st C skills into daily
lesson plan

11. • Learning strategies accelerate
standard academic language
learning for all students more
effectively and efficiently.
• They are particularly
important for students seeking
to master academic language
and content simultaneously.

12. •Learning strategy instruction can help students by:
- Showing them techniques for “how to learn”
-Developing their independence as learners
- Increasing their academic motivation
-Developing their awareness of their thinking &
learning processes

13. learning strategies that are especially helpful
to ELLs in acquiring standard academic English
and content are the following three meta-
cognitive strategies and a strategy for using
prior knowledge:

14. • Plan-Set goals and identify steps needed to accomplish a learning
task.
• Monitor/identify problems- While working on a learning task, check
your comprehension or production and identify any problems you are
having.
• Evaluate-After completing a learning task, assess how well you have
done.
• Use what you know- Use your own knowledge and experiences to
understand and learn something new; brainstorm words and ideas;
make associations and analogies; explain your prior knowledge about
a topic.

15. Introduce the Concept
How can we protect our environment?
• Watch the video:
https://www.youtube.com%2fwatch%3fv%3dF_O1Au8vZLA
•Discuss / answer the questions (questions
target purpose, audience, message, &
vocabulary)

16. 1. Have you ever given a speech?
2. Can you share any personal experience?
3. Who is Severn Suzuki?
4. Whom is she addressing?
5. Why did she decide to travel long distance and
give such a speech?

17. 6. Whom does she represent?
7. What is her main concern?
8. What issues does she talk about?
9. What is her main message?

18. 10. What is the analogy she used to get her
message across.
11.What touched you the most in her speech?
12. What were the two polite requests she
addressed the audience with?

19. • Environmental Children’s
Organization
• Raised money
• Hidden agenda
• Fight for my future
• Speak for the generations to come /
on behalf of
• Starving children
• Cries go unheard
• Go extinct / vanish forever
• Herds of wild animals
• Rain forests
• Happen before our eyes
• Deforestation
• Species
• Waste
• Privileged life vs living on the streets
• Victim of war
• Water/ air pollution
• Oil spill
• Chemicals
• Holes in the ozone
• Find environmental answers

20. • If you don’t know how to fix it,
Please stop breaking it!
• Please make your actions
reflect your words.

21. Let’s reflect on what we did!

22. •Spark meaningful connections with prior learning
and personal experiences
•Explore and verify important concepts
•Get engaged in inquiry and reflection

23. •Target specific words and expressions the students
need to learn to use when they speak, read, write
about the concept.
•Record the words or phrases the students use in their
answers to the questions.
•Write above each expression the target word or
expression in a different color.

24. • Provide students with opportunities to express themselves / to
communicate
• Students activate prior knowledge
• Give them an opportunity to explore the concepts hands-on before
they read and learn the formal content

25. Speaking activity
• Each pair chooses a picture.
• Take turns to come up with around a minute impromptu
speech.
• Each one chooses the purpose of their speech.
• Each one chooses the audience of their speech.
• It is highly recommended that you use the helpful words and
phrases discussed earlier and posted on the flip chart.
• Share with the class

26. •Narratives are important in communicating real-
life experiences
•Create opportunities for transfer to other
situations and subjects.

27. Recap
• Assignments should have personal and social significance to
the students
• Extended practice in miniature
• Culturally relevant activities relating students’ lives through
talk and writing
• Multiple opportunities to practice new skills by working in
pairs and / or in small groups.
• Informational talk to write informational texts
• Use academic vocabulary before they apply it to their writing

28. Activity
Reading lesson plan
Informational text

29. Informative text Biodiversity
Teach through modeling
• Reading processes
• Text’s grammatical features and vocabulary
• Build upon their prior knowledge
• Inform the reader about a specific topic.
• Find key information and understand the main topic.
• Coherence and cohesion

30. Read
Like
a
Writer

31. Informative text
• Conveys factual information
• Elements of the text: includes exposition, procedural text,
persuasive text etc
• Academic vocabulary
• Text structure: use cause- effect; definition; comparison –
contrast; classification..
• Use textual features like photos, graphs, maps, drawings, etc
readers need to experience the power of using skills and
strategies to make deep meaning from text

32. Activity
• Grammar in context; target grammar feature
contextualized in the same informative text

33. •Know the content they
need to include in their
writing
•Students need to
understand the text they
read to be able to write
about it.

34. Recap
•Standards stress the importance of regular
practice with academic texts and their
complex academic vocabulary.
•Modeling appropriate language use and
processes of reading and writing
•Establishment of cohesion and text-structure
knowledge.

35. Mini writing tasks
Prompt
• As a member of the “Go Green
Club”, you volunteered to participate
in the Environmental Awareness
Campaign to promote
environmental awareness at your
school. Write down an informative
text that makes students aware of
the problems that are causing a
decline in the environment’s health.
In groups of 4,

36. 1. Discuss the prompt
2. Decide on the main ideas
3. Each student chooses a main idea and develops
it in a paragraph
4. The group members discuss the different parts
and collaboratively put together the informative
text. Each member signs their name next to the
part they created.

37. •Model how to write comments that relate to
content and organization; comments that help
students write a better draft
•Use symbols to proofread the same writing.
(In class the teacher collects papers to comment on
and give feedback; students write another draft;
teacher checks the second draft before publishing
them in class.)

38. • Culturally relevant instruction/
tasks facilitate connection
between students, their
classrooms and their
communities.
• Provide daily time for students
to write
• Writing informational texts
requires writers to synthesize
information from multiple
sources.

39. •Writing persuasive essays
helps them become critical
readers.

40. Persuasive text
• Use the script of the speech
• Teach through modeling
• What is her claim?
• What arguments does she present?
• Are they logical and convincing?
• What rhetorical devices
• (Aristotle’s appeals: logos, pathos, ethos)
• does she use?
• Which part affected you the most?
• Do you agree with her?

41. Recap
• Strategy instruction is important.
• Don’t describe the strategy, model it. Support strategy use by
practice
• Differentiate based on authentic assessment/ scaffolding
students who need additional conceptual, academic, and
linguistic support
• Through modeling / explicit instruction expose them to new
language features and teach them how to use these features in
academic contexts.

42. Practice
•Give them a persuasive text of a theme
related to the concept being discussed.
•Ask them to read the title and set a purpose
•Ask them to read an assigned part silently

43. •Ask them questions that relate to the vocabulary
strategy / vocabulary words
•Ask them questions that reflect their
understanding of the features of persuasive text.
•Continue the other parts to help all students
achieve the learning outcomes.

44. Activity
In pairs, choose one of the given situations and write a claim,
one argument that appeals to reason and another one that
appeals to emotions. Write each on a separate sheet of paper.
All pairs who worked on situation 1 are asked to post their
claims, arguments that appeal to logic and those that appeal to
emotions on the chart under the matching heading.
Discuss with the class / evaluate the claim and arguments.

45. •Write like a reporter
•Connect to texts
•Write in response to
multiple texts and cite
text-based evidence

46. Activity: Design a writing task
• Topic should relate to concept
•Task helps students consider alternatives, weigh
evidence, support their ideas, and justify their
answers.
• Task helps students synthesize and apply
information from different sources.

47. Activity continued
Task should give students the chance to:
• research their chosen topics
• Record interesting facts
• Sequence their ideas
• Share their findings with a partner

48. Sum Up
Effective instruction for ELLs to meet the new standards will
require opportunities for students to engage with texts, peers,
and teachers using language and literacy in all its complexity
Activities that create conducive climate and foster motivation:
- make connections to students’ lives
- acknowledge students’ voices
-engage students in collaboration

49. Choose instructional methods that best meet
students’ needs
Implement formative assessment to improve
instruction

50. • Encourage students to relate concepts to
other subjects & revisit their thoughts
about it, explaining how their thoughts
may have changed after completing
several tasks
• Engage students in challenging hands-on
activities and help them make
connections to other content areas