Literacy Volunteers tutors will find useful lesson plan ideas, lesson materials and practical lesson application tips by examining the unit descriptions below. Taken together, these units comprised Session I of Literacy Volunteers’ first six-week EL/Civics evening class, which began in late May, 2002. Each unit features a list of unit materials and activities for intermediate level English learners. However, many of the materials and activities are easily adapted to meet the needs of learners at other levels of competency.

Most of the activities used in Session I appear in chapters seven and eight of the Literacy Volunteers publication, I Speak English. Tutors with questions about these activities or how to apply them to single- and paired –learner environments may also contact the Literacy Volunteers ESOL coordinator at 265-9339, Mondays through Fridays.

Unit I Activities/Materials

Materials:

Computer component flashcards
Computer skills assessment sheet
Unit vocabulary sheet
Verb conjugation form
Web quest sheets

Activities:

Substitution drill using vocabulary words and verb conjugation form
Completion drill using vocabulary words and verb conjugation form
Substitution drill using computer component flash cards
Restatement drill using what, when, where, who questions
Chain drill using computer component flash cards
Following Web quest commands
Writing Web quest for another student following Web quest model

 Unit 2 Activities/Material

Materials:

Civics unit essay
Four random objects
Four state flashcards (one state from each region of the US)
Sentence strips
Unit vocabulary sheet
United States map
Verb conjugation sheet
Virginia map
Web quest sheets

Activities:

Relative direction and cardinal direction substitution drill using states of the Union
Jigsaw using map of four regions of US
Web quest on Virginia statistics
Restatement drill using data from Web quest
Think-pair-share using Civics Unit Essay
Chain drill emphasizing relative direction
Substitution drill using verb conjugation form and unit vocabulary
Completion drill using vocabulary words and verb conjugation form

Unit 3 Activities/Materials

Materials:

Intake form
Unit vocabulary sheet
Verb conjugation form

Activities:

Substitution drill using vocabulary words and verb conjugation form
Completion drill using vocabulary words and verb conjugation form
Jigsaw using intake form
Think-pair-share using content of guest speaker’s talk