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Persuasion Map. Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's Rite of Passage Students use the elements of persuasion for a specific audience to demonstrate their understanding of Richard Wright's accessible and engaging coming-of-age novel, Rite of Passage. Grades 6 – 12 | Lesson Plan Persuade Me in Five Slides! After students write persuasive essays, use this lesson to challenge them to summarize their essays concisely by creating five-slide presentations. Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Developing Citizenship Through Rhetorical Analysis Students analyze rhetorical strategies in online editorials, building knowledge of strategies and awareness of local and national issues.

Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing Compare & Contrast Map The Compare & Contrast Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for different kinds of comparison essays. Essay Map Persuasion Rubric. Online Reading Activities | Read Theory. Englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/sites/ec/files/British Council Innovations in Learning Technologies for ELT.pdf. English Listening Exercises - Online Lessons for ESL Students. Writing and English as a Second Language. North Carolina has experienced a great deal of growth in the number of students whose first language is not English and who need language assistance in order to access and benefit from the total curriculum.

Although the largest numbers of limited English proficient students are at the elementary level, increasing numbers of new arrivals are entering secondary grades. Students progress in English at different rates depending on a number of variables including educational background, native language spoken, literacy skills in their native language, and previous contact with English. In any case, students generally have the greatest difficulty becoming proficient English writers. For a second language learner, writing is an extension of listening and speaking.

Therefore, the student must be provided opportunities to build, extend, and refine oral language in order to improve written output. The writing process and English Language Learners Pre-writing Drafting Revising/editing Word processing.

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab - For English as a Second Language. Mixer #17 Introductions. As you can tell As you can tell, it’s a very sunny place. The phrase 'as you can tell', means that something is obvious. If you are sneezing and blowing your nose, you can say, “As you can tell, I have a terrible cold.” Notice the following. Jake is in great shape. Campus It's a very beautiful campus. A 'campus' is the buildings and land at your school or university. We are not allowed to smoke on campus.On-campus housing is really expensive. green I love the green that’s everywhere. 'Green' means nature here. The city has made an effort to go green by planting more trees.The green of the Amazon looks amazing from the air. take some exercise I feel like taking some exercise.

To 'take some exercise' means the same as to get some exercise, or using the verb form, simply exercise. I take exercise before work in the morning.I exercise before work in the morning. cents a pound Apples are 99 cents a pound. One cent is one hundredth of a US dollar. 99 cents a pound is a way to describe the price of food.