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Teaching Syllabus for English Special class (Grades 5 & 6) 2007 Month Day .............Topics.............. ............Activities/Functions........... .........Materials....... Survey of personal information “likes” 04 09 Getting to know you Survey sheet etc. introduction game (true or false) “This is my friend” true/false cards 04

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Getting to know you 2 “This is me”

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Getting to know you 3 “This is my family”

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Role Play/Song Going to work “What does he/she do?”

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Going to work 2 “What are you going to be?”

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Around the city “What do you do at the__”

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Role Play/Song Directions & Maps “Are we there yet?”

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Tenses and verbs “What it is (was) and going to be?”

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My house prepositions “Where’s the dog/cat?”

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Role Play/Song My house prepositions “Where’s the dog/cat?” (continued)

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“Let’s make a calendar”

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“Let’s make a calendar” (continued)

Introductions/interests/and a lie. Students bring personal item to class discuss’ item what do you do with it? descriptions (size color shape etc) uses Students rate 1-10 to see winner. Family chart...Siblings...“likes”...Parents. Interests / comparisons/occupations matching and happy families game.

Role Play/Song Jobs introduced to students - add to list Students complete matching worksheet and play tic tac toe game. “My old man” song review jobs Students select job read and then write description. present to class. Review/Introduce buildings-r.o.b. game Memory-match pair game Public buildings/their purpose. Construct paper board city. Role Play/Song English robot game blind directions game. Find buildings in paper board city. Directional phrases/Buildings/some prepositions Short written passage students place proper form of verbs. Fill in blank. Sentence practice. Tenses, verbs and irregular verbs. Picture flash cards game- House contents label the diagram. Mental hide and seek game. Room/Furniture/house contents. Role Play/Song Preposition story as students follow along with cut out dog or cat. House contents and various propositional phrases. Double die matching month game Worksheet days of week months of year. Begin construction of calendar.

Continue construction of geometric calendar. Add up dice game if time permits. Months, days, 1st, 2nd, 3rd...31st.

Rating cards and personal item from students. Family photo and chart. To be determined Job flashcards and worksheet Worksheet and writing paper. Building flash cards. Paper board city. To be determined Paper board city blindfold and classroom. Worksheet containing written passage. House contents picture cards and diagram worksheet. To be determined House contents picture cards with cut out dog or cat. Month and day of week cards, dice and construction paper with geometric shapes. Construction paper with geometric shapes, dice, and colored pencils.

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Role Play/Song “Where/when do you __”

Role Play/Song Mind map followed by survey chart/worksheet. Q& A with ball times of day (morning...night) Routine activities.

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08

“Where/When did you __”

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10

“Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall”

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Role Play/Song "Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall" (continued)

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"Homonyms" "They sound the same"

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Homynons "They sound the same" (continued) Role Play/Song ESL math "Fractions Ratios" (Introduction)

Mind map followed by worksheet. Q & A simple version. Places where you do day to day activities. Review/introduce seasonal activities and clothing. Dress up variant game. Worksheet for seasons. Seasons, activities, clothes and holidays. Role Play/Song Review/introduce seasonal activities and clothing. Dress up variant game. Worksheet for seasons. Seasons, activities, clothes and holidays. List of words that sound the same but are spelled differently. Determine meaning by context in sentences and picture clues. Worksheet. Vocabulary/tenses. Short paragraph students must decode by filling correct Homonym in the blank.

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Daily schedule “What I have to do”

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Synonyms “They mean the same”

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Role Play/Song Synonyms “They mean the same” (continued)

ESL math "Fractions Ratios" (Story problems) Role Play/Song Daily schedule “What I want to do”

Role Play/Song Introduce basic math terms and review numbers. Add up the dice game (if necessary) worksheet simple problems. Make diagram book as instructed. Read through story problems to ensure basic understanding. Write problem into proper format. Express answers in English.

To be determined Worksheet and ball. Follow up survey. Worksheet and picture cards. Picture cards for clothing/activities and worksheets. To be determined Picture cards for clothing/activities and worksheets. Worksheet with clues and dictionary Paragraph previous worksheet and dictionary. To be determined Number cards, pie graphs, and colored paper. Story problem sheet and pie graph books.

Role Play/Song True or false game. Introduce vocabulary for "want/have to" create schedule containing only what you want. Students add to existing list.

To be determined Picture cards of daily activities. Schedule worksheet. Complete Schedules with activities "have Picture cards of to do" discuss grey area. Mystery bag daily activities. game or Q & A simple version. Schedule worksheet. Listing of words that mean the same Sentence thing. ESL baseball game simple version. worksheet and Sentence worksheet find definition and clues. Dictionary. match. Role Play/Song Find the synonym boggles world board game. Match word with definition. Read short passage and

To be determined Boggles world synonym game board. Definition

replace underlined word with proper synonym.

sheet and passage.

Worksheet of sentences missing descriptive words. Fill in the blank speed race game. Students read sentences and sketch picture from the description. Rapid fire quiz game. Students fill in missing words from written passage and answer brief comprehension questions.

Worksheet and picture sheet.

Role Play/Song Students review words mime game. Given other list to complete to add to previous one. Complete fill in blank worksheet. Picture clues given to class to solve Carmen Sandiego mystery. Team detective game to solve riddle. Reasons why sentence construction. Rapid memory game. Countries and something their noted for. These serve as clues to track Sandiego. Team detective game. Role Play/Song Review future and future continuous tense. Change the sentence game. Verbs regular and some irregular.

To be determined additional Jumbled Word list and fill in the blank sheet.

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05

Descriptive words (Introduction)

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Descriptive paper “fill in” words

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Role Play/Song Let’s make a snack (Introduction)

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12

Let’s make a snack (“And eat it!”)

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14

Jumbled words “What does that say?”

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Role Play/Song Jumbled words 2 “What does that say?”

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Carmen Sandiego “Why/Because”

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Carmen Sandiego “Where in the world?”

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Role Play/Song Tenses “Back to the future” Introduction

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26

Tenses “Back to the future tenses” paper

Students fill in proper form of verb in paper. First to finish gets a prize. Teamwork game to assist others when finished.

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28

Birthday bash “Happy birthday!”

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Role Play/Song Extra-ordinary "How many words"

Worksheet “When was your birthday” “When is it going to be?” past/future tense review. Party for students. Role Play/Song Students create as many words as possible. Make list on board. Champion gets prize and students add to Their list.

Written passage and picture clues. Comprehension sheet. Role Play/Song To be determined Show me the card game. Introduce prep. Peanut butter vocabulary. place missing word in recipe. chocolate balls copy cat commands. verbs/important recipe. picture words for making food. cards. English cooking robot. Students instruct Prep. dishes and teacher and selected classes how to ingredients from make. chocolate balls. recipe. Present vocabulary with picture clues Jumbled word list. and students must rewrite the word after Picture clues. identifying it. team race game. Look up Dictionary. word in dictionary if necessary.

Picture clue and sentence overhead presentation. Picture clue and sentence overhead presentation. To be determined Future tense Sentence sheets and picture clues. Written passage with blank future tense verbs and verb choices. Birthday survey sheet. To be determined Blank word sheet list.

Most creative word gets prize. Power point on Independence day. History. Follow along worksheet and matching quiz. Founding father’s game.

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03

Independence day “1776”

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Independence day “Fireworks”

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06 09

Role Play/Song Cold deserts “What’s your favorite”

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Cold deserts “let’s make one”

Student cooking robots. I instruct student what to do and they prepare the desert. Fill in missing vocabulary from recipe.

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12

Summer Vacation “Take a little trip”

Students trace events from my summer vacation. Picture clues help them. travel vocabulary and destinations.

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13 16

Role Play/Song Summer Vacation “Let’s talk about it”

Role Play/Song Students begin to plan there vacation. Guided by worksheet they expand ideas and express verbally. Things to bring places to go.

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Words ending in “ly” “making sentences”

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20 23

Role Play/Song Fish and Creatures of the sea

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Fish and Creatures of the sea (continued)

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The reason why “I went to the___ to__”

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Role Play/Song Reported speech “Grammar Soccer”

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31

The American pastime

Mind map a list. Picture perfect game. complete the sentence activity. Fill in the blank work sheet. Role Play/Song Power-point presentation of fish and other sea mammals. Students follow along with comprehension sheet. Matching memory game to review. Fish/Sharks/Dolphins. Categorize different sea creatures by physical traits. Worksheet and TPR activity pasting fish in proper category. Determiners some any all etc... Review/introduce buildings/places to go. On the board team race game. Students use pictures to verbalize meaning and complete worksheet. Role Play/Song Introduction to game phrases and vocabulary. Whisper game. Once familiar play grammar game. Proper grammar in verbal sentence production. Players and positions on the field. Rules

“Bombs blasting in air” tic tac toe. History matching game. Live footage from fireworks show. Students rate the display. Role Play/Song From Boston coolers to hot fudge Sunday’s presentation. Students play team selection game. Then explore vocabulary needed to make their favorite.

Overhead screen presenter and worksheet, quiz. Overhead screen presenter To be determined Picture of desert and recipe instructions. Picture cards prep. Vocabulary. Recipe form deserts and vocabulary with picture clues. Overhead projector screen. Picture flash cards. To be determined Worksheets for travel trip. Picture flash cards. Fill in the blank work sheet activity. To be determined Overhead projector screen and comprehension activity sheet. Worksheet for determiners overhead screen. Picture cards and worksheet. To be determined Soccer field game board and playing cards. picture clues for meaning. Baseball diamond

(Baseball for ESL)

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The American pastime (Baseball for ESL) 2

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Role Play/Song Carmen/Jake “What do they look like?”

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Carmen/Jake “What are they like?”

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“How you look and what you are like”

of the game. Diagram of baseball diamond and positions. Multiplication version of baseball.

worksheet. Classroom. Multiplication cards. Continue to play Multiplication Baseball. Multiplication Switch to division as seen fit. Brief cards and baseball history quiz on origin of baseball. quiz. Role Play/Song To be determined TPR-Touch body parts and review Picture card colors. Opposite game simple version. vocabulary. Describe/draw Carmen and Jake. Description sheet. Physical features/quantitative and Overhead screen. qualitative. ESL baseball opposite version. Match Picture card word with definition. Describe vocabulary. Carmen/Jake. Personality traits. Description sheet. Overhead screen Drawing and description of self. Description and Personality game (boggles world) Brief Interview sheet. interview friends. Physical personality traits together.

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Role Play/Song Shopping/Bills “How much is it?”

Role Play/Song

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Dining out “I would like the ___”

Students paste food item on menu role play-complete chart dining vocabulary placing/taking orders/food items

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16

Sandwiches are beautiful

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Role Play/Song Sandwiches are beautiful 2 “let’s make one”

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21

Amphibians “On land and water”

Introduce some of my favorite sandwiches/popular sandwiches. Students rate scale 1-10. Happy sandwich game on board. Review vocabulary for prep. Role Play/Song Teacher and student sandwich making English robots. Highest rated sandwich from last class Food prep. vocabulary basic instructions. Fill in review sheet. Power-point presentation. Study guide for students to comprehend. Matching pair’s game for amphibian’s physical features.

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Amphibians “On land and water” (continued)

Worksheet to discuss defining characteristics of Amphibians. What do they go into water/on land for students produce short answers.

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24 27

Role Play/Song The Rain Forest

Role Play/Song

review/introduce new vocabulary Students role play-complete worksheet bill talk money/clothes food items

“The rain forest” book and power point

To be determined Picture cards and role play sheet with worksheet. Paperboard menu and picture cards. Dining chart. Picture cards and prep. Instructions. Sandwich rating sheet. To be determined Sandwich review sheet. Picture cards and instructions. Overhead projector. Study guide. picture illustrations. Overhead viewer. Worksheet Picture illustrations. To be determined Overhead viewer

“The animals that live there”

presentation. Rapid memory game on board. Worksheet on different categories of animals.

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The Rain Forest 2 “The animals that live there”

“The rain forest” book and power point presentation. guided writing sheet as students write about different animals and features.

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30

Opposites “The opposite of___”

Presentation on viewer. Baseball and boggles world game. Matching definitions. Useful vocabulary on wide variety of topics.

and book. Worksheet and picture cards. Overhead viewer and book. Writing sheet with picture clues. Overhead viewer picture cards. Game board.

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Role Play/Song

Role Play/Song

To be determined