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Scaffolding Part Two: Once Upon a Time: Demonstrating Social Responsibility Through Storytelling Unit Plan

11/1/2014

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Unit Plan: Once Upon a Time: Demonstrating Social Responsibility Through Storytelling

Lesson Subject: English, ESL and other Language Arts

Grade Level: Middle School (Gr. 6-9)

As a follow up to my post about Aida Walqui’s article Scaffolding Instruction for English Language Learners: A Conceptual Framework I have provided a sample unit plan where I have focused on including scaffolded instruction and considered both Lev Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory and Zone of Proximal Development.  In this unit plan I am asking students to create their own stories and work at a high English level, however I have provided structure to support them reach this level.  I have considered learners and placed the expectations of the final culminating assignment within a zone of proximal development where the task requires students to reach beyond their current level towards what they are capable of achieving.  The lesson has been created with a lot of structure and a lot of space for flexibility. In class working time has been planned for, to provide the teacher and peer tutors (if available) time to actively support the learning process.  The unit has been designed with explicit and scaffold instruction.  Students’ learning will take place through the active use of the English language in a creative and natural way.

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