A lesson plan based on TESOL standard #2

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Discipline: Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening

Standard Category: Speaking and Listening

Lesson Focus: Oral story retelling

Goal 2: To use English to achieve academically in all content areas.

Standard 2: Students will use English to obtain, process,construct, and provide
subject matter information in spoken and written form.

Suggested Level: Middle

Strategies: Audio visual tape recording of oral presentations
Rubric assessing oral presentations

Key Objectives in Accordance with TESOL Level:

Pre-Conversational/Beginning Students will be able to:
• Draw the story’s action in sequence.

Intermediate Students will be able to:
• Write the story’s action sequence with teacher guidance and helpful graphic organizer
• Student then “rehearses” with a partner for story retell.

Advanced Students will be able to:
• Work independently to fill in the story review graphic organizer.
• Student,independently or with teacher guidance, writes out story summary and
orally retells story.

Materials:
1. A favorite storybook that has been read and understood
2. Story Review Organizer—multiple copies for rewriting draft
versions
3. Index cards for summarizing key points of story plot for
demonstration in story retell

Procedures:
1. Student recall the story’s main points and summarize its plot by
filling out the “Story Review Organizer”.
2. Student rewrites story’s important points onto index cards for
demonstrating an oral retell .
3. Students rehearse oral story retell for demonstration to the class

Assessment:

Beginning- Language learners may rearrange pictures of the story’s action
sequences, using as much English as they are able.

Intermediate- Language learners may rehearse and practice, telling a story out loud in the correct order. With teacher’s help student can fill out a sample story
review organizer. Teacher-created rubric that will assess a student’s
rehearsed and final polished piece that can also be recorded.

Notes:
1. The Story Review Form is very helpful for all students to focus.
2. Several drafts will be necessary in order to produce the best-written
piece.
3. Keep in mind that many students consider oral presentations in front
of their peers daunting at best.