This document describes activities for teaching English language learners based on NETS-T standards. It includes 5 activities: 1) having students describe language through a lesson plan, 2) pretending to travel around the world to learn about different places, 3) representing different cultural backgrounds by sharing facts about their ethnicity, 4) creating a newsletter to improve their school, and 5) doing a scavenger hunt to learn the butterfly life cycle. The activities are designed to help students demonstrate understanding of language systems, language acquisition, cultural identity, managing ESL instruction, using educational resources effectively, and classroom-based ESL assessment.

1. By: Georgette H. Manglona
ED481, Spring 09
NETS- T STANDARDS

2. DESCRIBING LANGUAGE (1A)
 Activity:
 Students will be able
to demonstrate View my lesson plan for this
understanding of activity.
language as a system Describing Language
and demonstrate a (1A)Lesson plan ed481.rtf
high level of
competence in helping
ESOL students acquire
and use English in
listening, speaking, rea
ding, and writing for
social and academic
purposes.

3. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT
(1B)
 Activity: Students pretend to
 Students will be able to go around the world. A map
understand and apply would be put out, a
concepts, theories, resea passport will be created.
rch, and practice to Each student will read a
facilitate the acquisition book of that certain place
of a primary and a new they want to travel to. For
language in and out of example, Africa or
classroom settings. Florida, they will read a
book or go online to read
about that place. When they
are done visiting /reading
their place they will report
about their trip and passport
will be stamped.

4. CULTURAL GROUPS AND IDENTITY (2B)
 Activity: Each student with a
 Students will be able to different ethnic background
know, understand, and will represent where they
use knowledge of how are from
cultural groups and (Chuuk, CNMI, Guam, Yap,
students’ cultural PI. Etc,) They are to cut
identities affect language out/print out pictures and
learning and school facts about where they are
achievement. from.
Language, Custom, Culture,
Food, Flag, People, House,
Clothing, Education. They
will put all they have
gathered together onto a
board and will share to the

5. MANAGING AND IMPLEMENTING STANDARDS-BASED
ESL AND CONTENT INSTRUCTION (3B)
 Activity: Students will create a
 Students will newsletter on how schools can
know, manage, and be improved. They will put
implement a variety of topics together(Cafeteria
standards-based teaching food, supervision, playground
strategies and techniques equipment, etc.)
for developing and  Gather information by
integrating English interviewing other students
listening, speaking, readin and staff and researching
g, and writing, and for through internet.
accessing the core  They will put interview
curriculum. Candidates response together by typing it
support ESOL students in on the computer and will
accessing the core create a newsletter to be
curriculum as they learn distributed to students
language and academic , parents, staff and faculty.
content together.

6. USING RESOURCES EFFECTIVELY IN ESL AND
CONTENT INSTRUCTION (3C)
 Activity: Students will do
 Students will be a scavenger hunt on
familiar with a wide trying to take pictures of
range of standards- the life cycle of a
based butterfly
materials, resources, (egg, caterpillar, pupae,
and butterfly) around the
technologies, and school campus or at
choose, adapt, and home. Then they will
use them in effective put it together in a
ESL and content slideshow and present
teaching. their findings.

7. CLASSROOM- BASED ASSESSMENT FOR ESL
(4C)
 Activity: Students will
 Students will know and perform a skit on a
use a variety of famous inventor. They will
performance-based act out/imitate on the
assessment tools and inventor as well as show
techniques to inform the invention created and
instruction. how it is helpful to today’s
world. They will research
about they inventors
through the internet and
other students will work
the camcorder to record
the skits.