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 defne 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.” 180Days . Heinemann, 2018, p. 170-188.

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