Ronniee-Marie RuggieroTitle III Access to Core Coach

Stevenson Middle School

Presenters : Xavier Contreras, Bertha Melendez, Frank Rodriguez

Language Objectives

Today’s Learning Goals

By the end of the Professional Development, participants will…

Review why we need Language Objectives

Understand what a Language Objective is

Practice writing Language Objectives

Why write a Language Objective?

So English Learners understand how reading, listening, speaking, and writing will be used to learn and express content.

To identify specific language that will be used by all students to express the content (such as sentence starters or words to express functions, i.e. cause and effect or compare and contrast).

To introduce or reinforce academic vocabulary and address key content vocabulary.

Stevenson’s English Learners Population

This 75% of our student population is why we need to write and inform our students about the Language Objective for the day.

“Planning with a Focus on Language Objectives”

Silently read the article “Planning with a Focus on Language Objectives”

Strategy 1 : Marking the Text (modified)

As you read, mark one sentence that stood out to you using an asterisk (*) and mark one sentence that you were unclear about using a question mark (?)

Strategy 2 : Think Pair Share

Turn to your elbow partner and share the two sentences and together choose one sentence that you will share whole group using one of the following sentence frames:

“One sentence that stood out to us was ___________ because ___________.”

“One sentence that we were unclear about was _________ because ________.”

Strategy 3 : Whip Around

Starting from the left, we are going to have one person from each group share aloud their sentence

What is a Language Objective?A Language Objective expresses what

students will be doing within the lesson in terms of reading, writing, listening, speaking, and thinking. It is the “how” of the lesson.

A Language Objective stems from the Content Objective.

The three main components of a Language Objective are:FunctionFormTarget Content Vocabulary

Language Objectives : FunctionFunction refers to what you want the

students to do. They are measurable active verbs. For example,

Costa’s Level 1 Costa’s Level 2 Costa’s Level 3

(Know) (Comprehend)

Define CiteFind DescribeLabel ExplainRecall InterpretWrite Summarize

(Apply) (Analyze)

Chart Classify Demonstrate Diagram Establish ExamineSelect OutlineSolve Relate

(Synthesize) (Evaluate)

Construct ArgueFormulate Critique Modify JudgePropose Prove Rewrite Support

Language Objectives : FormForm refers to the grammar, syntax,

patterns, and structures you expect students to use. For example,

• Cause and Effect TransitionsAs a result of _______, ________ occurred.

• Conditional TenseIf __________, then _____________.

• Progressive Tense (verb + ing)The ___________ is/are going to ___________.

Language Objectives : VocabularyVocabulary refers to the 5-7 target words that your

students need in order to accomplish the objective. Keep in mind that this vocabulary should be:

* Needed to express ideas about a specific topic* Content-specific

* Words that students are expected to produce in discussions, in answering comprehension questions,

in any task that requires language production* Encountered in future readings

* Frontloaded and practiced in context

Content Objective Language Objective

Content Objective :The “what” of the lesson

Language Objective :The “how” of the lesson

•Identifies what students should know and be able to do in a particular subject area

•Guides teaching and learning

•Supports content area standards and specific learning outcomes

•Should be stated simply, orally and in writing

•Identifies what language students should know and be able to use while using English to accomplish a task

•Supports student language development

•Is aligned to a Content Objective

•Should be stated simply, orally and in writing

Which is it?1. Students will explain the basic uses and procedures of

word processing software using transition words that show time, chronology, sequence.

2. Students will justify the character’s decisions using the past perfect tense.

3. SWBAT explain how the United States developing into different regions, economically and culturally, caused the Civil War.

4. The student will be able to summarize the complete set of rules for the order of operations, including brackets and fractions.

5. Students will use the future tense and conditional mode to predict the impact of a natural environmental change on the organisms in an ecosystem.

6. SWBAT explain multiple ways to monitor heart rate intensity.

Explain the results of a plant

experiment. Conditional Phrases

Soil, nutrients, deprive, essential, dehydrate, superlatives (large,

larger, largest)

Students will use conditional

phrases to explain the results

of a plant experiment.

Language Objective:

Time to practice!Working in grade level groups, complete the

T-chart “Content and Language Objectives” for the remainder of the time (there will be a share out at the end).

Use the pie chart and the resources you were asked to bring with you as references.

A sample sentence frame for Language Objectives is…Students will ______________ using _________ including words such as ____________________.

Sharing of Language Objectives

Strategy 4 : Give One, Get One*Each group member is to write

one Language Objective that they came up with on an index card

*For the next 5 minutes, you will go to at least two other department members (not from your grade level) and orally share your Language Objective

Thank you for participating!

Please complete the feedback & reflection form before you leave.

If you would like more information or assistance with Language Objectives, please contact our Title III Access to Core Coach, Ronniee-Marie Ruggiero in room 51 or by email at rmr6002@lausd.net