HS ELA Guide

●​ Prewriting Strategies ( video ) ( slides ) ●​ Chunking an Extended Essay ( video ) ( slides ) ●​ College Essay Tips ●​ Evaluate Student Samples ●​ Mini Moves for Writers Videos - Personal Essay ●​ 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 …

Skill Building

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, figurative 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.” 180 Days . Heinemann, 2018, p. 137-169. Kittle, Penny. Micro Mentor Texts . Scholastic, 2022.

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High School ELA, Page 98

Jun 2, 2025