HS ELA 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 define and classify entities (Jazz, characterized by polyrhythms and improvisations was …)

Source: WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition

Essential Vocabulary ●​ Text structures ●​ Series of ideas or events

●​ Purpose (in writing) ●​ Audience (in writing)

●​ Author’s point of view or purpose

Additional Resources Early, Jessica Singer. Next Generation Genres . Norton, 2023. Gallagher, Kelly and Penny Kittle. “Chapter 9: Multigenre Research Projects.” 180 Days . 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.

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Jun 2, 2025

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