ELD City Walk

Materials/Equipment: white board, dry

erase markers, writing notebook, pencil, city

book, city poster, sound CD

Curriculum Integration:
Social Studies
Writing

Reading

Blooms Taxonomy:

Knowledge/Remember
Comprehension/Understand
Application

Differentiated Learning:
Auditory

Verbal/Linguistic

Visual/Spatial
Logical/Math
Interpersonal

TEKS Achieved:

110.13.21(A) understand and

use in speech: verbs, nouns,
adjectives.
110.13.21(B) use complete
sentences when speaking.

Classroom Strategies:

Technology
Independent Activities Lecture
Whole-group
Pairing

Submitted by: Selby Bagale

Grade Level: _2_

Subject: English Language Development

Rationale: This lesson is to help the students develop a better verbal vocabulary.

Objectives:

(Statements about what the children will do, written out as the student will. Include objectives for your chosen content
area(s). Refer to the TEKS and ELPS. The number of objectives should meet the number of TEKS and ELPS)

TSW speak with a partner about things you can see in the city.
TSW provide nouns, verbs, and adjectives to describe the things in a city.

Lesson Plan:

Introduction: (Anticipatory Set/Motivation): Yesterday while we were on the bus Mrs. Williams and I told you to
pay attention to the things we were going to be seeing as we drove on the bus. Today, we are going to talk about
things that you would see in a city.
Process: Pair up the students by boy and girl. Have the pairs sit next to each other.

Build background knowledge: Im going to read you a book about a city. As I read the
story I want you to pay special attention to the pictures and things that it talks about in
the book. Read pages 1-11. Stop and talk.
What did you see in the pictures in the book? Allow for children to respond. Now I am
going to play some sounds that you might hear if you are in the city. Please close your
eyes and imagine that we are back on the bus and driving through the city. Play tracks
from the CD. What are some of the sounds that you heard? Turn to your partner and
talk about what you heard.
Finish reading the book. Put up the poster and have students name the things they
see in the picture. This is a picture of a city; can you name some of the nouns that you
see in the picture? Allow for response and write them on the poster.
Modeling: Use the picture cards in order to give noun vocabulary. Describe the
pictures as you go through them and show them to the class. Put on the board. Look
at all the people in the pictures. The city looks crowded with so many people living there.
Look at the traffic and all the cars that are on the street. Many people will walk or ride

their bikes so they dont have to sit in traffic. Since things are so close together in the
city, walking is sometimes the easiest way to get around. Did you notice all the tall
buildings in the pictures on the book and the poster? Those buildings are called
skyscrapers. Many children live in apartments that are in some of these buildings. The
apartments are smaller and closer together than we have here in Plano. Can you give me
some adjectives, describing words that you see in the pictures? Allow for children
response. Write responses on the board.

Check for Understanding: Put the sentence stems on the board. Now I want you to
use these sentence stems to talk to your partner about what you see in the pictures or
the poster. Make sure you use some of the describing words in your sentence to be more
descriptive about what you see. I will be going to each group to listen to your
conversation. If you have been to the city and have more information than what we
shared here today, tell your partner about it. Make sure to use the nouns and adjectives
that we have talked about to describe what you are talking about.
Allow students to talk to their partner. Monitor each group for a few sentences
each to make sure they understand what they are supposed to be doing and are
using the vocabulary. If time allows have students switch partners and talk again.
Closure/Culminating Activity: Now I want you to go back to your desk and write 3 of the
sentences that you or your partners said in your writing journal. Please use the sentence
stems, nouns, and adjectives that we wrote on the board.
Assessment/Evaluation: I will assess the students while they are speaking with their partners
to check for understanding. I will also look at their sentences that they wrote in their journal
to make sure they are using adjectives to describe the things we see in the pictures.