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Let’s Count!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5) Unit PlanLet’s Count!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5) Unit Plan
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Let’s Count!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)

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Counting is the theme of this compilation of ESL lessons. Through listening, speaking, and moving, your young learners take part in a variety of activities to enhance their English proficiency such as making menus and books, participating in a puppet show, and playing educational games. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

initial consonants, the /p/ sound, the /n/ sound, the hard /c/ sound, /g/ sounds, the /v/ sound, the /f/ sound, blending sounds, reading comprehension, counting, counting by 1, number words, tallying, high frequency words, sorting & categorizing, counting backward

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Display and read books about numbers
  • Ask pupils to bring in objects of five and ten
  • Invite the class to share their favorite fruit by combining them into a fruit salad

Classroom Considerations

  • Materials and preparations are required
  • Unit accompanies a Houghton Mifflin themed curriculum, however contents may be used independently 

Pros

  • Multi-level language prompts provided for differentiation among proficiencies 
  • Extra support suggestions to aid beginner language levels 

Cons

  • Unit refers to curriculum-specific literature, modification is required to complete some lessons

Common Core

RL.K.1 RL.K.2 RL.K.3 RL.K.7 RL.K.10 RF.K.1.a RF.K.2.a RF.K.2.d RF.K.2.e RF.K.3.a RF.K.3.c SL.K.1.a SL.K.2 SL.K.4 L.K.2.a L.K.2.b L.K.2.c L.K.5.a K.CC.A.1 K.CC.B.4.a

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