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13 comments:
Dear Lourdes,
Superb Lesson! Not only does it allow some of your ESL students to make personal connections, but it’s a great resource for multicultural integration and awareness.
Lens 1: Describing affect for teachers and learners.
You provided a warm and inviting learning environment. You take into consideration the language levels of your ELL students and provided concrete example to facilitate the learning.
Lens 2: Articulating best practice
Clearly demonstrated through out the lesson: Engaging and interactive activities
Lens 3: The Texas language arts standards and benchmarks.
Clearly integrated your reading, language development and your writing. TEKS outlined in the lesson outline.
Lens 4: Extensions and adaptations.
I plan to use those listed in your lesson.
Lens 5: Questions arisen.
None at this time.
Truly enjoyed your lesson. I plan to buy the book and integrate this lesson in the classroom as well as with our OLE.
Sincerely,
Christina Hernandez
08/01/2007
Dear Lourdes,
Lens 1: Describing affect for teachers and learners
You create an inviting and safe atmosphere for ELL students because of your thorough scaffolding.
Lens 2: Articulating best practice
The mini-lesson in adjectives will set the stage for later writing tasks and will serve as a point of reference for the students to write richer and varied sentences. The text is was very appropriate for teaching descriptive writing.
Lens 3: The Texas language arts standards and benchmarks
•TEKS where available and correlated to the lesson
•Objectives where directly tied to support TEKS
•Research supporting the learning objectives was presented
Lens 4: Extensions and adaptations
I loved the tool box idea and will use them with my students!
Lens 5: Questions arisen
None at the moment, Thanks!
I really enjoyed your presentation and appreciate the fact that you took the time to put it together.
Sincerely,
Sugey Villarreal
Dear Lourdes,
Lens 1: Describing affect for teachers and learners.
Great poster. Your friendly demeanor made us all feel comfortable. You respected our opinions and answered all of our silly questions without making anyone feel stupid.
I am sure you are a kind and caring teacher.
You gave us a chance to talk about ourselves and share.
Lens 2: Articulating best practice.
You asked for prior knowledge—what we already knew about the subject.
You gave us a hands-on activity to practice on.
You made sure we understood the context of the book.
You clarified each picture in the story to make sure we comprehended.
Lens 3: The Texas language arts standards and benchmarks.
Thank you for outlining them.
Lens 4: Extensions and adaptations.
Great story map. I will use this for my regular students. They benefit from these types of organizers.
Lens 5: Questions arisen
None at this time. Great lesson! You did a great job!
Di
August 1, 2007
Dear Lourdes,
Thank you for sharing today! It was fun and I learned so much!
The Five Lenses
Lens 1: Describing affect for teachers and learners: You created a warm caring atmosphere by your demeanor and nurturing spirit. You created a safe atmosphere. There is lots of great learning from neighbors.
Lens 2: Articulating best practice: You helped with vocabulary, created a community where all answers were acknowledged, and connected reading and writing.
Lens 3: TEKS: Nice documentation. I love the connections with geography, a culture that reflected many of the students in your classroom.
Lens 4: Extensions/Adaptations: Great extensions and adaptations. Research is always so wonderful and needs to be practiced by all learners. Writing as an extension is always a higher-level activity. This allows the writer’s to process and use their reflections of the reading in their writing.
Lens 5: Questions: How would you integrate technology? What about learners who do not have the same cultural backgrounds and do not know about deserts? How would you group your writers?
Thank you for your lesson, it was so much fun and allowed us to view your learners in your classroom.
Joyce
Dear Lourdes,
What a lovely book. I really enjoyed learning about Alejandro.
Lens 1: You involved us from the beginning--the pictures were fun and intriguing and we were immediately comfortable with the class.
Lens 2:
Best practices--everyone can write (and we made a great story), making students responsible for their own learning, incorporating grammar in context.
Lens 3: TEKS
Lens 4: Extensions--I like this "skeleton" type of writing. I think I'll try it with some of the stories we read in my regular English class. It might really be fun with scary stories like "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe.
Lens 5: Have you ever used the Schoolhouse Rock videos? They have a great song called "Unpack your Adjectives" that would go well with your lesson.
Thanks!
Sherry
Dear Lourdes,
You are one of the kindest, sweetest people I’ve ever met. I think your love for kids shows through in your speech and mannerisms.
Lens 1: Describing affect for teachers and learners. During your lesson, I was calmly affected. I like how you encouraged discussion yet you helped everyone get back on task.
Lens 2: Articulating best practice.
AllChildren Can Write
Real Audiences, Real Purposes
Lens 3: The Texas language arts standards and benchmarks.
• §110.25. English Language Arts and Reading, Reading (Elective Credit).
Lens 4: Extensions and adaptations. I think I could stretch this and work with the quilting. Who knows what my kids would come up with.
Lens 5: Questions arisen. What other books do you think I could use for secondary level?
Thank you again,
You are kind and loving with just enough spice mixed in to be interesting.
Jolyn
Dear Lourdes,
Lens 1: You have a great conversational style. I can tell that you really connect with and care about your kids.
Lens 2: Classroom of Shared Learning, All Studnets can write. You encouraged all the students to do their best.
Lens 3: TEKS- You addressed TEKS very well.
Lens 4: Extensions- I think you could use this as a Multicultural enrichment in an English classroom, too.
Lens 5: Can you tell me some more books like these? I really enjoyed it.
Thanks for a great presentation! I enjoyed it!
Heather
Hello Lourdes,
Lens 1: It was fun to be able to be a middle schooler again. The lesson was fun and I particuarly like to book choice for its rich illustrations to support English language learners in their vocabulary development.
Lens 2: Best Practices
I noticed several best practices woven throughout the lesson. Before reading, students were asked to recall the function of adjectives and write a sentence about an animal using their adjectives, activating prior knowledge that would be connected to animals in the text. During the reading, the teacher pointed to pictures to support new vocabulary. Students were encouraged to interact with the text, by making connections, predictions, and clarifying comprehension. After reading, students were asked to complete a story map, and work in groups to compose parts of a class story. Students then read their writing to the class audience.
Lens 3: Standards
Thanks for adding the TEKS to your lesson plan.
Reading Objective #2: apply knowledge of literary elements
• 7.12G identify elements (graphic organizer-story map)
Writing Objectives #1: produce effective writing
• 7.15H write cohesive and coherently; organize ideas and precise
wording
Writing Objective #2: Demonstrate a good command of grammar usage
• 7.17D use adjectives to make writing vivid
Lens 4: Extensions and Adaptations
The story map could be used for any narrative as well as a plan for student's own stories. Also, I like your idea of making picture cards for writing. They are versatile and can be used in multiple writing or grammar exercises. They could be used to teach nouns, collective nouns, plural nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc.
Lens 5: Questions arisen.
None at this time.
Thanks again, Lourdes.
Christine
1 August 2007
Dear Lourdes,
Lens 1: I appreciated the overview the lesson. It let us know where we were going and why. You invited our input to share what we know about adjectives and the book. You engaged us in the reading. What a wonderful choice that really offered several different interpretations and extensions. Thank you for reflecting on the interdisciplinary potential of your lesson.
Lens 2:
using pre-reading strategies
assessing prior knowledge
active reading: asking questions while reading
modeling questioning
use of GOs
cooperative learning
Lens 3: Yes. Nice work on including those standards.
Lens 4:
You mentioned a time when students might be in the desert. Could that be an extension as well?
Excellent ideas on interdisciplinary extensions.
You mention some strong ethical questions about giving and expectations. How will you get your students to that level of discussion, understanding, and learning?
Lens 5:
How could you provide us with more research info to deepen our own theory?
How could you integrate technology into this lesson or in one of its extensions?
How could you review or teach unfamiliar words to your students?
I really love this book. I appreciated your lesson very much. You kept focus on the ESL student, and I would love for you to share your expertise for further strategies to use with these learners.
Janelle
August 1, 2007
Dear Lourdes,
Thank you for sharing your lesson with us. As a fellow ESL teacher I so looked forward to your presentation. I was hoping that I might get a new idea for my own little English language learners. I was not disappointed! Your presentation will prove quite useful as it stands up to the scrutiny of the Five Lenses.
Lens 1: Describing affect for teachers and learners. I loved your progression: from a picture, to a lovely story, to an analysis of literary elements, to writing our own story as a class. It kept us engaged and entertained while we learned.
Lens 2: Articulating best practice. I noticed several best practices being used in your lesson. As we know, incorporating multiple representations of information is so important for ELLs.
Lens 3: The Texas language arts standards and benchmarks. You substantiated your lesson content with the TEKS and research support.
Lens 4: Extensions and adaptations. I will definitely use some of your strategies with my students. Specifically, I will use the pictures, the graphic organizer for literary elements, and the collective rewriting of the story.
Lens 5: Questions arisen. None at all, my friend. ;)
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Leslie Hancock
Dear Lordes,
Lens 1: I like the question you did with the students, allowing them to share their own experiences and build background knowledge. You could tell that you are very interested in your lesson.
Lens 2: “Best practices” I thought your introduction into the lesson was very engaging. You made the students think by describing animals that would be seen in the story.
Lens 3 =)
Lens 4: I would like your idea of the extension of writing a essay empathizing with Alejandro. I think my ESL students would definitely be able to relate.
Lens 5: Do you recommend any other picture books for ESL learners?
I really liked your reference to the writer’s tool box; I think I will use that this coming year. Very visualize, so beneficial for the students. You did a fantastic job.
Thanks,
Rachell
Lourdes -
This was a really goo lesson and I loved the story!
Lens 1 - You have a very patient and kind manner with the students. Your lesson focuses on lonlieness,
which many of our students can relate to coming to a new place.
Lens 2 - Articulate Best Practices:
The grammar focus was on adjectives, and the grammar was integrated into the story. Read - aloud with inquiry, graphing elements of the story, writing to expand on information in the book.
Lens 3 -
TEKS: Reading Objective #2: apply knowledge of literary elements
• 7.12G identify elements (graphic organizer-story map)
Writing Objectives #1: produce effective writing
• 7.15H write cohesive and coherently; organize ideas and precise
wording
Writing Objective #2: Demonstrate a good command of grammar usage
• 7.17D use adjectives to make writing vivid
Lens 4 - Research an animal or the desert. I like this one because I have spent several years teaching English for Science, and this would be a great opportunity to teach across the curriculum.
Lens 5 - None at this time.
Thanks for a great lesson !
Ginny
Dear Lourdes
Lens 1: Describing affect for teachers and learners. Thank you for the lesson. We had a great time composing the ending to the story :). Your lesson was very visual which is a great necessity for ELL learners. This can certainly be adapted to elementary. One problem I had out of my students was that I was not able to get them to expand and better describe nouns. This applied to my ELL and non-ELL kids. Or if they did, they didn’t do it right. Something simple like this will help. The visuals were good. I am a visual learner too.
Lens 2: Articulating best practice. All Children Can Write, **Real Audiences, Real Purposes, Student Ownership and Responsibility, Getting Students Started, A Classroom of Shared Learning
Lens 3: The Texas language arts standards and benchmarks. -- Ditto
Lens 4: Extensions and adaptations- Students could eventually do research on the animals of the desert or just the desert itself. Also, you can pair a nonfiction piece about desert life with this book and compare and contrast the two.
Lens 5: Questions arisen— None at this time
Thank you Lourdes for a great lesson.
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