Literacy Volunteers tutors will find useful lesson plan ideas, lesson
materials and practical lesson application tips by examining the unit
descriptions below. Taken together, these units comprised Session I of
Literacy Volunteers’ first six-week EL/Civics evening class, which began in
late May, 2002. Each unit features a list of unit materials and activities
for intermediate level English learners. However, many of the materials and
activities are easily adapted to meet the needs of learners at other levels
of competency.
Most
of the activities used in Session I appear in chapters seven and eight of
the Literacy Volunteers publication, I Speak English. Tutors with
questions about these activities or how to apply them to single- and paired
–learner environments may also contact the Literacy Volunteers ESOL
coordinator at 265-9339, Mondays through Fridays.
Unit I Activities/Materials
Materials:
Computer component flashcards
Computer skills assessment sheet
Unit vocabulary sheet
Verb conjugation form
Web quest sheets
Activities:
Substitution drill using vocabulary words and verb conjugation form
Completion drill using vocabulary words and verb conjugation form
Substitution drill using computer component flash cards
Restatement drill using what, when, where, who questions
Chain drill using computer component flash cards
Following Web quest commands
Writing Web quest for another student following Web quest model
Unit
2 Activities/Material
Materials:
Civics
unit essay
Four random objects
Four state flashcards (one state from each region of the US)
Sentence strips
Unit vocabulary sheet
United States map
Verb conjugation sheet
Virginia map
Web quest sheets
Activities:
Relative
direction and cardinal direction substitution drill using states of the
Union
Jigsaw using map of four regions of US
Web quest on Virginia statistics
Restatement drill using data from Web quest
Think-pair-share using Civics Unit Essay
Chain drill emphasizing relative direction
Substitution drill using verb conjugation form and unit vocabulary
Completion drill using vocabulary words and verb conjugation form
Unit 3 Activities/Materials
Materials:
Intake
form
Unit vocabulary sheet
Verb conjugation form
Activities:
Substitution drill using vocabulary words and verb conjugation form
Completion drill using vocabulary words and verb conjugation form
Jigsaw using intake form
Think-pair-share using content of guest speaker’s talk
