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Intensify Your English Instruction: Maximize Success for All Write Poetry!!

Intensify Your English Instruction: Maximize Success for All Write Poetry!!. Roberta Sergant/ Alice Horiba El Marino Language School. Getting to know us. El Marino Language School (K-5) 90/10 model 1 st Immersion in US Multi-language (Spanish/ Japanese). Data. API

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Intensify Your English Instruction: Maximize Success for All Write Poetry!!

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  1. Intensify Your English Instruction: Maximize Success for AllWrite Poetry!! Roberta Sergant/ Alice Horiba El Marino Language School

  2. Getting to know us • El Marino Language School (K-5) • 90/10 model • 1st Immersion in US • Multi-language (Spanish/ Japanese)

  3. Data • API • 2006 903 • 2007 905 • 2008 904 • High SES ( free and reduced lunch 16%) • % of ELD (18%) • High level of parental support

  4. ELA set up/ grouping • 3 classes team together across programs (ideal) • English time • M, T, Th – 1:00 – 2:45, 1:00 – 2:00 • Homogeneous groups (subtle) • Divide 3 classes into 9 clusters • Mix 2-3 clusters in one classroom

  5. Strategies • Imbed standards in every lesson • Excitement! Cooperation. Competition. Pride. • Color Poems • Metaphor/ similes/ personification • I Am poem

  6. Standards = Poetry • Writing process • Main idea and supporting details • Multi-step written directions • Similes vs. metaphors • Personification • Adjectives/ adverbs • Noun / verb agreement • Fluency/ accuracy (written and oral) • Punctuation

  7. Poetry All Year Long • Divide school year into 3 components • Reading • fluency and accuracy • Analysis • Imagination and creativity • Writing and publishing

  8. Poetry across the curriculum • Science • Math • Social Studies • Target language • VAPA • Multi-cultural • Health / self-esteem

  9. Color Poem • Lesson • Grouping • similes vs. metaphors • production • Samples

  10. Metaphorical Face Poem • Lesson • Review metaphors vs. similes • Brainstorm using teacher • Samples

  11. I Am Poem • Samples • Lesson • Video • ** If time allows – After Q & A - Adult writing

  12. Resources • Prelutsky, Jack I’m Glad I’m Me (Scholastic) • Lansky, Bruce If Kids Ruled The School/ My Teacher’s In Big Trouble/ If I ran the School (Scholastic) • Lesynski, Loris Nothing Beats Pizza (Annick Press) • Silverstein, Shel, Where the Sidewalk Ends (and other bks) • Hughes, Langston, The Dream Keeper and other poems • Roessel, David Langston Hughes: Poetry for Young People (Scholastic) • Scieszka and Smith, Math Curse and Science Verse • Montalvo, Margarita Zoologico de pemas/Poetry Zoo (Scholastic) bilingual, animal

  13. More resources • George, Kristine O'Connel Fold Me a Poem (Harcourt, math) • Greenberg, David, Bugs (Little, Brown & Co) • Janeczko, Paul A Kick in the Head (Candlewick) • O'Neill Hailstone and Halibut Bones (Color Poems) • Hollander, John Animal Poems (Scholastic) • Mesmer, Edric The Best Poems Ever (Scholastic) • Hopkins, Lee Spectacular Science (Aladdin) great! • Poetry Writing ( Teacher Created Materials, Inc) (18 forms)

  14. Questions?

  15. Contact info • www.CCUSD.org • http://elmarino.ccusd.org/ • PPT under teachers - Alice Horiba • 2009 Two-Way CABE • robertasergant@ccusd.org • alicehoriba@ccusd.org

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