ESL: Intermediate Level
The Tennessee Department of Education has set the following expectation of its ELL students:
Goal 2: To use English to achieve academically in all content areas.
Standard 3: Students will use appropriate learning strategies to construct
and apply academic knowledge.
Goal 2: To use English to achieve academically in all content areas.
Standard 3: Students will use appropriate learning strategies to construct
and apply academic knowledge.
The Intermediate Student has achieved some competence in listening and
speaking comprehension. Students at this stage are able to use more sophisticated
communications in social settings, but may still have a limited receptive vocabulary
in terms of academic language. Now that students can gather meaning from the
language they hear and see in the classroom, they should focus on learning
about how the parts of language work together. Here are exampls of
content that your student will be studying:
Nouns:
People, Places, Things, Animals, Ideas
Examples
Common Nouns Proper Nouns
girl Anna
boy John
school Parkway Elementary
store Walgreens
Pronouns:
Pronouns take the places of nouns.
Pronouns can also show possession.
Examples
Subject Pronouns Object Pronouns
he him
she her
they them
we us
I me
you you
it it
* Pronouns in purple can be used as either subject or object pronouns.
Possessive Pronouns
mine yours his hers ours theirs
Action Verbs:
Action verbs show what characters do.
Examples
run jump play laugh talk throw
walk eat look read write skip
cry ride sit tap grow hear
Parents, visit the following webcite to see helpful powerpoints about the eight parts of speech:
http://languagearts.pppst.com/partsofspeech.html
Intermediate level ELL students should continue to practice
automatic recognition of Dolch Words and high frequency
vocabulary. These are words students should read quickly
without sounding out. Here is a list of Dolch sight words
appropriate for ELL students at the intermediate level.
Intermediate Level Sight Words List:
always call made only write
about does laugh these your
because don't off those
before first myself together
clean goes sing which
Students, visit this site to practice more content specific academic vocabulary. Please use your teacher's name in a search to locate relevent key term lists.
spellingcity.com
