Secondary ESOL
General resources
Waves – teacher notes for the waves DVD (PDF 271KB)
Resources for Junior ESOL classes
These resources assist teachers to plan learning for specific learning outcomes related to ELLP and the NZC
- On the democracy road: social studies
- Volcanoes: science
- From history to idiom - D Day: ELIP Text, social studies
- The living world: Eat or be eaten: science
- Stage 2 Bamboo and Flax (PDF 5MB) : This is a teaching and learning resource to support ESOL provision for English language learners in years 7 - 12, who are at early Stage 2 ELLP (English Language Learning Progressions). It provides a scaffolded approach in teaching the basic skills of English through the topic of bamboo and flax. There are 41 suggested activities, which allow students to compare and contrast these beautiful and useful plants. The activities include OHT masters and a range of key strategies, for example, crosswords, cloze, text reconstruction, “Say it”, and Venn diagrams.
- Microbes (PDF 3MB) : This is a teaching and learning resource to support ESOL provision for English language learners in years 7 - 12, who are at early Stage 2 ELLP (English Language Learning Progressions). It provides a scaffolded approach in teaching the basic skills of English through the topic of microbes. This unit focuses on the parts of a microscope, an overview of microbes, fungi-mushrooms, yeast, and mould. The topic is linked to the year 11 Science curriculum. There are 31 activities investigating key words and concepts. Strategies used include disappearing text, dictation, writing scientific explanations, and crosswords.
Cross-curricular resources
English
Maths
- Cart before the horse: a unit of work designed to assist ELLs to devise and use problem-solving strategies to explore situations mathematically.
- Graph and table writing: a unit of work to scaffold understanding and writing graphs.
- Money and percentage: a unit of work designed to assist ELLs to solve practical problems involving decimals and percentages.
Science
Social Sciences
The Arts
- Being Eve: a Drama unit of work adapted for ELLs.
Resources for senior ESOL classes
Published on: 23 May 2009