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Language Objectives

Content Objective = What

Language Objective = How

• Strategically teach students how to use the language of the content.

• Help students move from using social language to academic language

• Derived from ELPS

• Aligned to TEKS

Identify the

content objective (aligned to TEKS)

Writing Language Objectives

Identify the

content objective (aligned to TEKS)

Determine what type of language skills students will use to participate in

the lesson and process the learning

objective

Writing Language Objectives

Identify the

content objective (aligned to TEKS)

Determine what type of language skills students will use to participate in

the lesson and process the learning

objective

Choose the appropriate

language objective from the ELPS

(section C)

Writing Language Objectives

Identify the content

objective (aligned to TEKS)

Determine what type of language skills students will use to participate in the lesson and

process the learning objective

Choose the appropriate

language objective from the ELPS

(section C)

Craft a language objective using

specific vocabulary,

sentence stems, and/or paragraph

frames to help scaffold language

Writing Language Objectives

Identify the content

objective (aligned to TEKS)

Determine what type of language skills students will use to participate in the lesson and

process the learning objective

Choose the appropriate

language objective from the ELPS

(section C)

Craft a language objective using

specific vocabulary,

sentence stems, and/or paragraph

frames to help scaffold language

Writing Language Objectives

Active Verbs in Objectives

Common Content Objective Verbs

• Identify • Analyze • Evaluate • Justify • Debate • Contrast • Defend • Categorize

• Apply • Locate • Generate • Predict • Hypothesize • Characterize • Estimate

Suggested Language Objective Verbs

• Retell • Explain • Describe • Narrate • Restate • Give

reasons • Compare • Write

• Role play • Summarize • Listen • Act out • Answer • Respond • Tell • Say • Read

Possible Language Objective Format

We will __________ using . . .

• Vocabulary word bank

• Sentence stems

• Graphic organizer

• Illustrations

• Outline

• Close sentences

Scaffolding

active verb

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Proficiency Level

Do a Venn Diagram with a partner, to sort the key vocabulary using a word bank.

Students will write a compare and contrast paragraph using a paragraph frame after completing a Venn Diagram.

Language Objective

Aligned to proficiency?

Students will write a compare and contrast paragraph after completing a Venn Diagram with a partner.

_________________ and ____________________ are similar in several ways. They both______________________________________. They also ___________________ ________________. Furthermore, each ___________________________________________. However, ____________________and ______________________ differ in some key areas. First, _______________________________________ , whereas _______________ __________________________. In addition, ____________________________. In contrast, _______________________________. These differences help us to see _______________________.

Paragraph Frames

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Evaluating Language Objectives

Are my language objectives...

√ Observable? √ Measurable? √ Student friendly? √ Aligned to key content? √ Aligned to proficiency? √ Practiced and assessed?

Reference objectives throughout the lesson . . .

Beginning

Middle

End

Stating objectives

Doing Activities

Checking for understanding

Writing language objectives

Implementing language objectives

Language Objectives:

Implementation Process

Displayed Explained Implemented Reviewed