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Wheels Go Around: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 7)

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Wheels go around is the theme of the plethora of activities to aid in the language fluency of your scholars in this unit of ESL lessons. Learners can take part in a grand conversation focused on wheels, make their own steering wheel, answer riddles, race toy cars, practice sound effects, design road signs, and invent their own verse to Wheels on the Bus all while enhancing their proficiency in English.

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Concepts

wheels, blending sounds, the /d/ sound, the /k/ sound, the /f/ sound, the /p/ sound, the /l/ sound, high frequency words, the short /i/ sound, summaries, concepts of print, cause and effect, making predictions, phonics, phonemic awareness

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

Invite learners to bring in toys with wheels
Copy and laminate letter cards for continued use
Make mulitple copies of letter cards to send home

Classroom Considerations

This unit is designed to be implemented alongside Houghton Mifflin curriculum, but can be taught on it's own or with another curriculum of related subject matter

Pros

Multi-leveled responses are provided to aid in meeting all English language learners' needs

Cons

Literature is not included making some activities difficult to complete without the substitution of other books on the same topic

Common Core

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