Effective Strategies with Elementary English Language Learners:

Academic Writing

Adriane Geronimo

Greensville County Public Schools

K–12 English Language Arts Standards of Learning Institutes

Richmond, Virginia

October 20, 2014

Contact Information:

Adriane Geronimo

Greensville Elementary School

1011 Sussex Drive

Emporia, VA 23847

434 336 0907

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Handout Contents:

Writing a Paragraph

Circle Map

Bubble Map

Triple Bubble Map

Vocabulary Lists

Bibliography


Writing a Paragraph

Opening: Focus on your topic

1. Example to support your topic

2. Example to support your topic

3. Example to support your topic

Closing: Restate your topic

First Grade Science: Animals/Life Processes

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/science/2010/curriculum_framewk/science1.pdf

ESL Vocabulary / SOL Vocabulary / Academic Vocabulary
beak
body parts
climb
coverings
crawl
ear
eye
feathers
fly
fur
help
jump
keeps
leg
move
nose
paw
safe
scales
shell
swim
tail
warm
water
wing / air
appendages
arms
body coverings
body shape
classify
crawl
domestic
feathers
fins
fly
food
fur
habitat
hair
home
land
legs
movement
needs
physical characteristics
scales
shells
shelter
space
swim
tails
walk
water
wild
wings / domestic
physical

Second Grade History: Homes/Ancient China and

Egypt, American Indians, Map Skills

ESL Vocabulary / SOL Vocabulary / Academic Vocabulary
adobe house
apartment
build
cabin
farmhouse
home
house
leaves
live
mobile home
neighbor
paint
sticks
stone
straw
wood / adobe
architecture
bark
building
clay
climate
community
environment
home
materials
multi-story
reeds
resources
surroundings
teepee
terraced
village
wood / community
environment
resources

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/frameworks/history_socialscience_framewks/2008/2008_final/framewks_history2.pdf


Bibliography

Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. (2007). WIDA English Language Proficiency Standards and Resource Guide, 2007 Edition, Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12.

Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. (2012). WIDA’s 2012 Amplification of the English Language Development Standards, Kindergarten–Grade 12.

Cobb,T. Web Vocabprofile, an adaptation of Heatley, Nation & Coxhead’s (2002) Range.

Coxhead, A. (2000). A new academic word list. TESOL Quarterly 34 (2): 213-238.

Coxhead, A. (2000). An academic word list. ELI Occasional Publications #18, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington: Wellington.

Gardner, D. (2008). Vocabulary recycling in children’s authentic reading materials: A corpus-based investigation of narrow reading. Reading in a Foreign Language 20(1):92-122.

Halliday, M., & Hasan, R., 1976. Cohesion in English. New York: Longman.

Heatley, A., Nation, I.S.P. & Coxhead, A. (2002). RANGE and FREQUENCY programs. Available at http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/staff/paul-nation.aspx

Krashen, S. (2004). The Case for Narrow Reading. Language Magazine 3(5):17-19.

Schmitt, N. and Carter, R. (2000). The lexical advantages of narrow reading for second language learners. TESOL Journal 9(1):4-9.

Virginia Department of Education. (2008). History and Social Science Standards of Learning Curriculum Framework 2008.

Virginia Department of Education. (2010). Science Standards of Learning Curriculum Framework 2010.