BHS ELA Instructional Guide

●​ Submit to school’s newspaper or literary journal ●​ Turn it into an OpEd and submit to the newspaper ●​ Submit for publication: learn how to write a query letter , research publications for submissions, submit essay or narrative for publication Multilingual Learners will construct informational texts in language arts that: ●​ Establish an objective or neutral stance ○​ Using a variety of sentence structures to define an describe entities (embedded clauses, relating verbs, nominalizations, given/new patterns) ●​ Develop coherence and cohesion throughout text through… ○​ The correct use of referential devices (pronoun reference, synonyms, renaming) to like ideas across sections of text.

Language Expectations for Multilingual Learners

Source: WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition

Essential Vocabulary ●​ Comparisons

●​ Cohesion ●​ Substantive research ●​ Misinformation

●​ Fallacies ●​ Synthesize

●​ Analogies ●​ Categories

Additional Resources Gallagher, Kelly and Penny Kittle. “Chapter 7: Informational.” 180 Days . Heinemann, 2018, p. 170-188.

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