BHS ELA Instructional Guide

● Context Planning Sheet ● Peer Review Guide

● Write the World (competitions and writing groups for teens) ● Submit to school’s literary journal ● Turn the narrative into a stop-motion animation, video, or song ● Have students create an art or media piece to accompany their narrative Multilingual learners will construct language arts narratives that ● Orient audience to context and one or multiple point(s) of view

Extension (Make it Real)

Language Expectations for Multilingual Learners

○ Title, heading, opening statements to capture reader’s interest (March. Two people, a man and a woman are walking along the corridor.)

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 entities (Jazz, characterized by polyrhythms and improvisations was…)

Source: WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition

Essential Vocabulary ● Structures in Writing: ○ Comparative ○ Causal ○ Sequential

● Point of View ● Purpose ● Implicit messages

● Mediums (of texts) ● Stylistic choices

Additional Resources

Early, Jessica Singer. Next Generation Genres . Norton, 2023. Gallagher, Kelly and Penny Kittle. “Chapter 9: Multigenre Research Projects.” 180Days . Heinemann, 2018, p. 209-221. Gallagher, Kelly and Penny Kittle. “Chapter 4: Digital Composition: Crossing Genre Boundaries.” 4 Essential Studies: Beliefs and Practices to Reclaim Student Agency . Heinemann, 2022, p. 116-143. Kittle, Penny. “Chapter 10: Finding Form for Ideas: Blending Genres.” Write Beside Them . Heinemann, 2008, p. 159-189.

Last Updated August 13, 2024

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