BHS ELA Instructional Guide

Scaffolding in Action

● NSDA Resources (see your individual accounts) ● Utah Debate Coaches Association (free account) ● UDCA Oratory Rubric

Skill Building

● UDCA Informative Rubric ● UDCA Impromptu Rubric ● UDCA Extemp Rubric

Language Expectations for Multilingual Learners

Multilingual Learners will construct informational texts in language arts that: ● Add precision, details, and clarity about complex attributes, qualities, characteristics, activities, and conceptual relationships through … ○ Technical word choices to defne and classify entity ( Jazz, characterized by polyrhythms and improvisation was… ) ● Develop coherence and cohesion throughout text through … ○ Topic and/or entity, headings to serve as openers for sentences and paragraphs

Source: WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition

Essential Vocabulary ● Impromptu ● Extemporaneous ● Oratory ● Loaded terms

● Current events ● Issues ● Credible sources ● Opening

● Critiquing ● Formal register ● False assumptions ● Closing

Resources ● Utah Debate Association Lesson Plans and Video ● National Speech and Debate Youtube Channel

Last Updated August 13, 2024

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