Meeting the Needs of English Learners in After School Programs

Part 2:Supper and Homework Time

Review

• On a post it, write down two ideas that you remember from the previous training (2 minutes)

• Turn to your “elbow partner” and share what you wrote down.

Objectives

• Learn activities to use with English Leaners to practice English during Supper

• Learn activities to use with English Leaners during Homework Time

• English Learners need to TALK! Provide opportunities for them to practice both informal and academic English in your program

• New Common Core Standards require students to interact in rigorous and complex ways. After School Programs can both prepare and support them for this task

• Supper is a great time to facilitate conversations

Supper

Activity #1: Sentence Stems

“The color of this is (red, shiny, mahogany, burgundy).”

“The texture of this is (bumpy, rough, uneven).”

“The flavor of this is (orange, sweet, acidic, tart).”

You Try!•With a partner chose a topic to discuss with students pertaining to food•Create sentence stems that students can use to facilitate discussion

(5 minutes)

Supper

Supper

Activity #2 Preview Material

•Introduce new vocabulary for the days lesson (flashcards, word lists, etc.)

Supper

Activity #3: Conversation starters

•Choose topics to create structured talking time•Provide sentence stems or cloze writing•Topics should be interesting to students, i.e. movies, music, video games, etc.

Homework Time

• Great time to promote academic language• Challenge yourself and students to only speak

using formal, standardized English during this time

• Choose common slang terms to discuss synonyms and and create thesaurus charts

Activity #4 Thesaurus Chart

WordDefinition:

synonym

synonym

synonym

synonym

synonym

“the bomb”really good

excellent

outstanding

exceptional

superb

tremendous

Homework Time

You Try!•In table teams, pick 3-5 slang words •Create thesaurus charts for each word, listing 5 to 7 synomyns

Homework Time

Situational Appropriateness•We use different types of language depending on our location/relationship– Locations: mall, place of worship, fast food

restaurant, museum, concert, school, home– Relationships: sibling, peer, cousin, teacher,

parent, store employee

Homework Time

Role-playing•Pair students to have a discussion based on different situations•Students write out their discussion, then practice by speaking to one another•Give students various situations so that can see the difference in the type of language to use