HS ELA Guide

Scaffolding in Action

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Skill Building

● Use this essay on your Common App College Application ● Revise and submit for a scholarship application ● Submit to be a speaker at graduation using this essay. Multilingual Learners will construct language arts narratives that: ● Orient audience to context through …

Extension

Language Expectations for Multilingual Learners

○ A variety of sentences types to introduce the context (rhetorical and other questions, statements, points of view) ○ Literary devices to enrich the narrative as in similes and metaphors, alliteration, idioms, fgurative and sensory words/phrases ○ Language to address the reader/listener and draw them in

● Engage and adjust for audience through …

Source: WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition

Essential Vocabulary ● Illusion

● Parallelism ● Purpose ● Literary expression

● Creating mood/tone (in writing) ● Engage the reader

● Anecdote ● Audience

Additional Resources

Gallagher, Kelly and Penny Kittle. “Chapter 6: Narrative.” 180Days . Heinemann, 2018, p. 137-169. Kittle, Penny. Micro Mentor Texts . Scholastic, 2022.

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